Ric Smith has masterfully woven archival material, memories of his own time as a foreign service officer, and conversations with other officers of the then Department of Foreign Affairs to recount the crisis in East Pakistan in 1971 and the difficult birth of Bangladesh.

Ministers For Foreign Affairs 1972-83 The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is pleased to present the latest book in the Australian Ministers […]

The AIIA’s National Director and researchers have produced the first-ever book length discussion of the role of think tanks in diplomacy. Think Tank […]

Edited by Antonia Mochan and Melissa Conley Tyler of the EU-Australia Leadership Forum, this publication brings together specially-commissioned […]

Ministers For Foreign Affairs 1960-1972 The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) is pleased to present the second book in the Australian Ministers […]

The Australian Journal of International Affairs is the country’s leading scholarly journal in the field of international relations and foreign policy. Edited by […]