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The cheap hawk and the bald eagle: the Harries Doctrine.(Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony)(Book Review)

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Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony, by Owen Harries; ABC Books, 2004, $22.95.

SOME YEARS AGO I was serving a stretch on the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee when we were gratified to have as a witness our Ambassador to UNESCO, Mr Gough Whitlam. I took the opportunity to ask him about the recent criticisms of UNESCO (corruption, cronyism, racism, waste) which his predecessor, Professor Owen Harries, had been making at the Heritage Foundation in America.

Harries had not yet begun his brilliant career as editor of the National Interest in Washington DC but he was already an influential figure. He had been an adviser on ...

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