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Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters and David Lowe with Garry Woodard, Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making 1941-1969.

Publication: Journal of Australian Studies
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 971 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters and David Lowe with Garry Woodard, Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making 1941-1969.(Book Review)

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Melbourne University Press, 2003, pp 224, pb $39.95, ISBN 0522850472.

The September 11 attacks, the Bali bombing, Australia's participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the instability in Indonesia, and the tensions over North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear capability have generated a heightened interest in Australian foreign policy, which has a rich but relatively unknown history. Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats provides an engaging study of Australian foreign policy from the second world war to Vietnam. Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats is a study of the relationships between key political and departmental figures who were instrumental in shaping and implementing Australian foreign policy during this time. Although the book contains very little about the processes and institutions involved in the actual making of foreign policy, or on how and why certain policies were adopted, readers will see the evolution of the Department of External...

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