Allan Gyngell (1947-2023) was National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and an honorary professor at the Australian National University. His long career in Australian international relations included appointments as director-general of the Office of National Assessments and founding executive director of the Lowy Institute. He worked as a diplomat, policy officer and analyst in several government departments and as international adviser to Paul Keating. He was the co-author of Making Australian Foreign Policy and the author of Fear of Abandonment.
Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
1. Introduction
2. Conceiving foreign policy
3. The policy process
Case study: the Cambodia Peace Settlement
4. The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy
5. The executive
Case study: Developing Regional Architecture - The APEC Leaders' Meetings
6. The overseas network
7. The Australian Intelligence Community
8. The domestic landscape
Case study: The Bali Bombings: Foreign Policy Comes Home
9. The International Policy Landscape
10. Australia's Place in the World
Case study: The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands
11. Australia's security
12. Australia's Prosperity
Case study: the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
13. Values and Australian foreign policy
14. Conclusion: the end of foreign policy?
Appendix
Glossary
Index.
