Dancing with Warriors: A Diplomatic Memoir by Philip Flood

Dancing with Warriors: A Diplomatic Memoir by Philip Flood

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781921875205
Author: Philip Flood
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Arcadia
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2011
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Inscribed by author. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Dancing with Warriors is Philip Flood's memoir of his fifty years working in Australian foreign and trade policy.

He is the only person to have headed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Office of National Assessments and the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. He has served in Asia, Europe and the US and has worked closely with several Australian prime ministers, from Gough Whitlam to John Howard. Philip Flood has also headed recent public inquiries into Australia's intelligence agencies and immigration detention centres.

Over the period covered by this book, Australian foreign and trade policy has seen significant change. Australia has moved closer to Asia, abolished the White Australia policy, strengthened ties with the US and dramatically shifted from high dependence on the United Kingdom to a broader relationship with Europe. Australia has played an effective role as a middle power - brokering a peace settlement in Cambodia, initiating APEC, ensuring independence for Timor-Leste and contributing to arms control and disarmament. Australia has been welcomed into the OECD and, more recently, the Group of Twenty leading world nations.

Philip Flood argues that successive Australian prime ministers and ministers - the warriors of government as he terms them - have done well in advancing Australia's security and building, particularly wide-ranging official and commercial relations with China, Japan and Indonesia, and to a lesser extent, India.

Successive governments, however, have not done enough, he argues, to prepare the Australian people for the rise of Asia, failing to develop within Australia a deep understanding of the cultures and languages of those countries that are our nearest neighbours. (back cover)

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