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16 - Australia and the International System

from Part Four - The Seventies: Australia’s Options

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2024

By
Max Teichmann
Edited by
Australian Institute of International Affairs ,
Gordon Greenwood  and
Norman Harper
Gordon Greenwood
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Norman Harper
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Summary

Despite all the burgeoning ’Institutes of Futurology’, the record of predictions of political events has been, up to date, most unimpressive. Wisdom after the event has been the most ego-preservative role of political scientists. Nevertheless, attempts to foresee at least parts of the future, often in the hope of making preparations to absorb, or even to redirect process of social and political change, seem to be a psychological necessity for man.

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Australiainternational systeminternational affairsworld affairsforeign policyAustralian foreign policyAustralian history
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Australia in World Affairs 1966–1970 , pp. 463 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published in: 2024

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