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Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.

About the Author

Allan Gyngell (1947-2023) was 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 was the co-author of Making Australian Foreign Policy and the author of Fear of Abandonment.