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THERE IS a great tension between the policy makers and the academics concerned with foreign policy in Australia. While the former have to deal with actual issues of national security and our place in a dangerous world, the latter are obsessed with ideology and pharisaical moralism as if national security were not the primary issue. The same divide exists in almost every area of domestic policy as well.
This divide has meant that must comment on foreign policy issues emanating from university departments is of virtually no practical interest, while its often low intellectual level and obsession with ideological denunciations of the major democracies, the USA in ...