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12 - The Indian Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2024

W. J. Hudson
By
Ian Clark
Edited by
Australian Institute of International Affairs
W. J. Hudson
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
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Summary

If it is true that a camel is a horse designed by a committee, then it would seem that a vast heavenly bureaucracy was employed in the creation of the Indian Ocean as a geographic region. That any government should have a policy towards the Indian Ocean area is as unlikely as the region itself. It would be a bold analyst who would set out to give an account of Greenland’s relations with the Atlantic area, the latter defined as those territories – from Iceland to the Cape of Good Hope, from Canada to Tierra del Fuego – the shores of which are washed by that ocean. My task here is no less daunting.

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The PacificAsiaAustraliaIndian Oceaninternational affairsforeign policyAustralian foreign policyworld affairs
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Australia in World Affairs 1971–1975 , pp. 306 - 323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
First published in: 2024

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