Many of Australia’s former prime ministers have been content to spend their political afterlife stoking the embers of their own legacy or feathering their own fiscal nests.
Not Malcolm Fraser. Dangerous Allies is an important contribution to a vital question facing the country. His canvas is broad. Fraser ranges over the history of Australian foreign and defence policy, the tragedy of Vietnam, the trajectory of post-Cold War American foreign policy, the role of ideas and ideologies in international relations, the war on terror, China’s rise and recent dramas in north-east Asian geopolitics.
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James Curran is associate professor of history at the University of Sydney and is a researcher at its United States Studies Centre. His next book, Unholy Fury: Nixon and Whitlam at War, is to be published in early 2015 by Melbourne University Press
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