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Fear of Abandonment

Australia in the World since 1942

by Allan Gyngell
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Updated edition, covering Brexit, Trump, Xi's ambitions for China, and the geopolitical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic
Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.
In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned – originally by Britain, and later by our most powerful ally, the United States – has been an important driver of how Australia acts in the world.
Covering everything from the White Australia policy to the South China sea dispute, this is a gripping and authoritative account of the way Australians and their governments have helped create the world we now inhabit in the twenty-first century. In revealing the history of Australian foreign affairs, it lays the foundation for how it should change.
Today Australia confronts a more difficult set of international challenges than any we have faced since 1942 – this new edition brings the story up to date.
Allan Gyngell is National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and an honorary professor at the Australian National University. His long career in Australian international relations included appointments as director-general of the Office of National Assessments and founding executive director of the Lowy Institute. He worked as a diplomat, policy officer and analyst in several government departments and as international adviser to Paul Keating. He is the co-author of Making Australian Foreign Policy and the author of Fear of Abandonment.

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    August 16, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781925435559
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    • English

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    • Books+Publishing

      February 28, 2017
      Allan Gyngell has written Fear of Abandonment with detail and insight drawn from a long career in foreign policy, from diplomat to intelligence advisor. It examines Australia’s involvement with the world since World War II—a timely subject given the current threats to the post-war world order—and is written in a style that is illuminating for readers with little knowledge of Australian history and international relations, but with enough analysis and insight to interest students as well. The central thesis, that Australian foreign policy is driven by attempts to maintain the involvement of its powerful friends in world affairs in order to stave off the problem of its isolation, is not new, but it is underappreciated in a country where the public is used to following events through the eyes of those great friends rather than our own. In the vein of defining books such as Geoffrey Blainey’s The Tyranny of Distance and Paul Kelly’s The End of Certainty, Gyngell tells a ‘big picture’ story. Its breadth and focus, especially on the personalities and problems of our recent turbulent politics, will also appeal to readers of politics and current affairs. Aron Paul is a professional historian and taught at La Trobe University from 2004-2009

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