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{"title":"Australia’s indigenous diplomacy and its regional resonance in Oceania","authors":"Sala George Carter, Greg Fry","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268024","url":null,"abstract":"Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg’s philosophical approach to Indigenous political ordering and inter-polity relations breaks new ground for scholarly and practice deliberations about Indigenous diplomacy. Our response takes up questions of the meaning, practice, and efficacy of Indigenous diplomacy with reference to wider Indigenous diplomacy in the Pacific which we call Oceanic Diplomacy. We contextualise Australian developments in relation to the region before considering examples from Pacific diplomatic practice to show how Indigenous diplomacy can be a valuable game changer or flawed window dressing. We also consider points of similarity and difference with their approach to ideas of ‘relationalism’ and ‘survivalism’. Overall, we argue that their principled approach to the philosophy of ‘relationality’ will find resonance in the Pacific and is necessary to counter instrumental approaches to the mobilisation of Indigenous diplomacy to be effective.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"33 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fractal politics and diplomacy: religion, governance, and conflict management in classical Aboriginal Australia","authors":"Paul Memmott","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268545","url":null,"abstract":"Through a discussion of the overall patterning of religion and law, and using examples from Central Australia and Southeast Queensland, this response to the inaugural Coral Bell School lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg shows how Aboriginal people developed a system of embedded, detailed, and comprehensive fractal politics and diplomacy. The descriptor ‘fractal’ is used as it is particularly apt for explaining the long-lasting pre-colonial stable order that prevailed on the Australian continent. The broad categories in the classical Aboriginal fractal system are religion and the Law, geography and land tenure, kinship, and the class or skin system. The response explains how these elements lock together, and how this in turn supports diplomatic and harmonious relations among groups or nations. The fractal diplomatic systems of Aboriginal Australia thus generated multi-faceted identities and ways of forming polities at different scales to address particular socio-political needs and challenges dependent on broad contextual factors and the current circumstances. This anthropologically informed explication of the diplomatic system complements the more abstract model of Indigenous political relations described in the Graham and Brigg lecture.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135778381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What would Allan think?","authors":"Rory Medcalf","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"17 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous foreign policy: the challenges of survivalism before and after the era of Western dominance","authors":"Andrew Phillips","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268029","url":null,"abstract":"Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg advance a timely and provocative call to incorporate a relationalist ethos into Australian foreign policy, informed by Indigenous Australian worldviews and diplomatic practices. Their proposal holds great promise in enriching Australia’s regional engagement. Yet it abrades against a persistent survivalism that is deeply sedimented in Indo-Pacific Asia’s statecraft. Quintessentially survivalist practices – exemplified in coercive state-building and competitive power politics – date from the advent of sedentary civilizations in antiquity. These traditions of violent inter-polity competition long predated and have now outlasted the West’s brief period of colonial domination in Asia. Exemplified most dangerously in China’s current push for regional primacy, these survivalist pressures will constrain Australia’s foreign policy for the foreseeable future. This limits but by no means negates the progressive possibilities offered by incorporating an Indigenous relationalist ethos into Australia’s statecraft.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous Australian diplomacy and the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples","authors":"Madeleine Pugin","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268022","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian National University’s inaugural Coral Bell Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy introduced philosophical perspectives that could underpin Indigenous Australian diplomacy. This piece uses the lecture as a starting point to discuss the possibilities and tensions of using a relationist ethos to pursue an Indigenous Australian Diplomacy approach within a survivalist system, drawing on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). First, I provide a brief history of Indigenous peoples in the survivalist international political order, then I explain what can be learnt from relational Aboriginal societal structures, and finally I use UNDRIP as a potential form of diplomatic machinery for supporting Indigenous diplomacy. This shows that an Indigenous relationalist approach to diplomacy and foreign policy that is guided by UNDRIP has the potential to transform the way in which states deal with Indigenous peoples and each other.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135887904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Faces of ‘not knowing’ in International Relations","authors":"J. Marshall Beier","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268030","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThat Indigenous diplomacies remain largely unknown to states and to disciplinary International Relations is, ultimately, a matter of choices made by those privileged in terms of the power to (re)produce social facts and common senses. Distinguishing distinct faces of ‘not knowing’ exposes ontological commitments underwriting the logics of territorially exclusive sovereign power and the knowledge practices of International Relations that, in both spheres, make Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world seem implausible. ‘Not knowing’ in this sense is a form of rejection of knowledge and, therefore, a consequential practice which, as such, is never politically innocent. Relational autonomy raises a challenge to the rigid singularism and exclusivity of dominant ontologies—one that is rooted in long-run historical experiences of still-existing Indigenous forms of community and inter-national diplomatic practice. Among other things, it points us to more sustainable possibilities upon which to found relations between polities and reminds us that diplomacies are always plural.KEYWORDS: Relational autonomyIndigenous diplomaciesInternational Relationsknowingnot knowing Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJ. Marshall BeierJ. Marshall Beier is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Security. His current research examines issues of Indigenous peoples’ global diplomacies, children’s rights, and imagined childhood as a technology of global governance. His publications include International Relations in Uncommon Places: Indigeneity, Cosmology, and the Limits of International Theory (2005, 2009), Indigenous Diplomacies, ed. (2009), Discovering Childhood in International Relations, ed. (2020), and, with Helen Berents, Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics, eds. (2023). His work has appeared in journals including Children’s Geographies, Contemporary Security Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, International Political Sociology, International Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of Human Rights, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"78 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135995798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenous international relations: old peoples and new pragmatism","authors":"Mary Graham, Morgan Brigg","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2265847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2265847","url":null,"abstract":"This lightly edited transcript of the inaugural (2023) Coral Bell School Lecture on Indigenous Diplomacy sketches the foundations of Aboriginal Australian socio-political ordering and inter-nation relations while issuing a challenge to dominant International Relations (IR) scholarship and the settler-derived Australian political order. For many millennia the original peoples of the Australian continent engaged in a long-term process of evolutionary political design using landscape as a template for political ordering. The resulting relationalist system enables the interconnected autonomy of individuals and groups, facilitates inter-group diplomacy, and provides long-term stability and security while managing survivalist human tendencies. Aboriginal political ordering and diplomacy are largely unknown in IR scholarship per settler-colonial dominance and the discipline’s institutionalisation of survivalism. Aboriginal relational approaches nonetheless offer resources for expanding mainstream understandings of international relations and ameliorating dominant political practice, including by reconceptualising approaches to multipolarity and diplomacy. While there are no easy or immediate equivalences between Aboriginal inter-polity relations and contemporary political and international affairs, the civilisational culture of Australia’s original owners and runners of Country provides openings for supporting modern nation-building and advancing diplomatic relations in our region. Headings in the text indicate sections of the lecture delivered by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136183693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perspectives from Melanesia: Aboriginal relationalism and Australian foreign policy","authors":"Solstice Middleby, Meg Taylor, Priestley Habru, Anna Naupa, Jope Tarai","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Coral Bell School’s inaugural lecture in Indigenous Diplomacy considers Aboriginal relationalism and suggests implications for Australian foreign policy and diplomacy. Revealing a multi-polar and multi-generational lateral political order in Aboriginal cultures, the lecture emphasises the significance of landscapes and individual autonomy intricately woven with group identities that manage and counter rather than institutionalise the survivalist impulses of humans. This response reflects on the lecture from the perspectives of Indigenous Melanesians. We reflect on the strong resonance between Aboriginal relationalism and our own notions of relationality, as well as divergence around our response to what the lecture terms the survivalist impulses of humans. We contemplate what the lecture might offer the emerging field of Indigenous Diplomacy and the broader decolonisation of hegemonic diplomatic practices. Finally, we consider how the Australian state may respond, arguing that embracing reciprocity, respect, and interdependence will improve Australia’s ability to navigate diplomatic relations in the Pacific region, and that honouring Indigenous peoples and cultures must start at home.KEYWORDS: Indigenous diplomacyPacificMelanesiaAboriginal relationismAustralian foreign policy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In 2017, Pacific Islands Forum Leaders endorsed the Blue Pacific narrative as a strategic framing for Pacific regionalism and collective action of Pacific Island States. https://www.forumsec.org/2017/09/05/opening-address-prime-minister-tuilaepa-sailele-mailelegaoi-samoa-open-48th-pacific-islands-forum-2017/.2 Naupa (CitationForthcoming) refers to the use of \"kastom\" in contemporary Pacific state-centric diplomacy as vernacular diplomacy.Additional informationNotes on contributorsSolstice MiddlebySolstice Middleby is a researcher, author, partnership broker and former Australian Diplomat to the Pacific. She has lived and worked across the Pacific Region for the last 20 years, supporting Pacific-led development through partnerships approaches, innovation and multistakeholder collaborations working with AusAID, DFAT, IUCN and as CEO of the Australia Pacific Training Coalition. Soli is the Director of Coconuts and Kurrajongs and has been involved with various community projects. Her doctoral research, focused on Pacific regionalism, considers how power is understood and exercised in the practice of regional agreement making within the Pacific Islands Forum.Meg TaylorMeg Taylor is a Papua New Guinean citizen of the Blue Pacific, who has served in many roles at national, regional and international level including as the first female Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum. She is currently based in Papua New Guinea where she serves on the Board of Nambawan Super the PNG Sustainable Development Program. She is a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Asian Infr","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can International Relations (IR) learn? The politics of ‘doing understanding’","authors":"Martin Weber","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268045","url":null,"abstract":"This short response considers some challenges that may be faced by learners keen to engage with ‘Indigenous International Relations’ following the lecture by Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg. I sketch two such challenges under the headers of ‘misunderstandings’ and ‘misrecognition’. My aim is to disclose what have been persistent problems in IR when ‘new’ knowledges are tapped to inaugurate ‘turns’ or reinvigorations of conceptual inventories and conventions. I argue that the cognitive risk of misunderstanding the scope and differentiations that operate in Mary and Morgan’s account runs alongside the risk of misrecognition, and that the propensity to succumb to these risks is facilitated by an unreflective and often unacknowledged ‘bending back’ towards familiar, mainstay stories about inter-polity relations that have been extensively rehearsed in Western political thought. In closing, I indicate why I think that Mary and Morgan’s account provides strong clues on how to manage these risk enroute to ‘doing understanding’.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136097996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward principled pragmatism in Indigenous diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific","authors":"Rory Medcalf","doi":"10.1080/10357718.2023.2268035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2023.2268035","url":null,"abstract":"Mary Graham and Morgan Brigg provide a compelling foundation for developing Indigenous diplomacy for Australia, pointing to principled pragmatism and the integrity of a ‘relationalism’ grounded in landscape. However, Indigenous diplomacy and First Nations foreign policy will be difficult to translate into practice. This is not least because of the diplomatic tension which consistent First Nations advocacy would bring in a region of sovereignty sensitivities, including with regard to some of Australia’s most important foreign relationships: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and China. A First Nations foreign policy offers significant potential advantages for Australia, such as reinforcing environmental stewardship while projecting the image of a nation reconciled with the land’s custodians and neighbours alike. Difficult work lies ahead, informed by a principled pragmatism.","PeriodicalId":51708,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of International Affairs","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136062814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}