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087914
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2009.
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While the recent Prague speech by Barack Obama put nuclear disarmament firmly back on the global agenda, the UK has also been pushing for a 'world free of nuclear weapons'. This distinctive British view developed over the last two years is in part due to the particular way in which the renewal of its deterrent capability was agreed. It also reflected a wider international current of thought. Now, the spectre of arms reductions raises a number of questions for British defence policy-makers
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056534
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138157
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This is an excerpt from the 2014 Sir Robert Menzies Lecture, delivered by the Honourable Josh Frydenberg, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and the Federal Member for Kooyong, on August 14, 2014, in the Queen's Hall at the Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne. In these remarks, I argue that Sir Robert Menzies oversaw a paradigm shift in our understanding of our neighbours and in our neighbours' understanding of us. He did so by repositioning Australia among the rising powers of Asia and by creating a coherent framework of regional engagement. For too long, the political opponents of the Liberal Party of Australia have propagated a myth that it was only Labor that truly understood our region and capitalised on its opportunities. This is patently false. The explicit denigration of Menzies and, in more recent times, John Howard and Tony Abbott for their approach to Asia should be exposed for what it is: ideologically driven, partisan polemics, which bear no resemblance to the facts. Paul Keating is wrong to suggest that in order for Australia to achieve, in his words, our ‘destiny in Asia and the Pacific’, we must somehow change our national identity and the nature of who we are. Foreign policy is about advancing the national interest and must never be a proxy for reshaping our nation's identity by stealth. As Shakespeare said, ‘What's past is prologue’, and only if we can truthfully understand the past will we be ready for the future.
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051484
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181351
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AT THE turn of the 21st century, Russian-American relations were characterized by a flurry of activity from political elites and diplomats. For example, in the course of a single year, from September 1999 to September 2000, Vladimir Putin, as prime minister and then as president of Russia, and US President Bill Clinton participated in multiple high-level meetings together, including an APEC summit, a G8 summit, and the Millennium Summit put on by the United Nations in New York.
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065742
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093182
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075419
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