Hugh White
The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Julia Gillard, Foreign Policy and the Summit Season
Hugh White
It’s summit season. Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lift her head above the toxic miasma of domestic politics and breathe the purer,...
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The Monthly Essays
The Foundering Miracle: Hugh White Reflects on Japan
Hugh White
The figures moving among the wreckage conducted themselves with a quiet dignity that was not only moving and impressive, but also strangely...
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Arts & Letters
Balancing Acts: David Lee’s 'Stanley Melbourne Bruce' and David Bird’s 'JA Lyons'
Hugh White
Most of us think that for much of Australia’s history we have not really had a foreign policy. We assume our approach to the world has...
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Arts & Letters, Noted
'Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Battle for Supremacy in the 21st Century' by Hugh White
Hugh White
Monsoon melds two very different books into one. One book is a geopolitical treatise, conceived on a grand oceanic scale. It argues that...
More ...Comment: The Defence Minister
Hugh White
Why is defence so toxic to its ministers? It should be an easy job to look good in – hobnobbing with the Australian Defence Force (ADF),...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Rudd’s China Policy
Hugh White
The big story of 2009 has been the economic downturn, better known as the Global Financial Crisis, and the biggest part of that story has...
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The Nation Reviewed
Comment: Afghanistan
Hugh White
Few of us are pacifists, so most of us accept that these strategic decisions must sometimes be made. But, in Australia, we have not faced...
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Turning a Mouse into an Elephant: "The Accidental Guerrilla" by David Kilcullen
Hugh White
Soldiers who are also scholars have always had a certain cachet, but since 1914, when major warfare became unrelentingly industrial,...
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A focused force: Australia's defence priorities. Hugh White
Hugh White
Part 1 | Part 2At this Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Visiting Fellow Hugh White speaks at the launch of his new Lowy Institute Paper, 'A Focused...
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Dear Mr Rudd: Defence. Hugh White and Robert Manne - part two
Hugh White
In this conversation, one of a series related to the launch of the Dear Mr Rudd book (Black Inc), Hugh White and Robert Manne address the...
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