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Maryanne Kelton, Common enemies: crime, policy, and politics in Australia–Indonesia relations, International Affairs, Volume 96, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 553–555, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa033
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In an era when transnational crime is widespread, what can be done to promote criminal justice cooperation? Cross-country cooperation in criminal justice is often fraught with tensions created by divergent political interests and complicated by the varying perceptions of mutual interest. How, then, can we create the conditions whereby cooperation is more likely? How do various actors influence cooperation? Examining these questions through the criminal justice relationship between Australia and Indonesia––two countries that were once described by Desmond Ball and Helen Wilson as ‘strange neighbours’ in their eponymous book (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991)––provides fertile ground for analysis. Author Michael McKenzie is both a criminal justice practitioner with the Australian government (most recently counsellor legal in the Jakarta Embassy) and an academic, which positions him suitably to interrogate these questions from both a theoretical and the empirical perspective. So, too, his practitioner's wisdom adds a further layer of insight to his recommendations and strategies for cooperation. In Common enemies: crime, policy, and politics in Australia–Indonesia relations McKenzie's findings are buttressed by experience and interviews with over 100 current and retired politicians, bureaucrats, and members of the judiciary and of civil society.
