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Owen Harries

Publications by Author

  1. FEATURE: Suffer The Intellectuals

    Owen Harries | 03 Mar 2008 | POLICY Magazine

    An explanation of why predictions by intellectuals so often turn out to be wrong.

  2. FEATURE: Morality and Foreign Policy

    Owen Harries | 03 Mar 2005 | POLICY Magazine

    Prudence has an important place in foreign policy.

  3. Morality and Foreign Policy

    Owen Harries | 19 Nov 2004 | Occasional Papers

    Owen Harries explores the intellectual heritage of two opposing positions on morality in foreign policy; the hands-off realist... Read More...

  4. RESPONSES BY INVITATION: Rhetoric Matters

    Owen Harries | 12 Dec 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    (In response to American Grand Strategy: The Imperial Logic of Bush's Liberal Agenda by Edward Rhodes in POLICY Summer 2003.) Rhetoric... Read More...

  5. COMMENT: What It Means To Be Conservative

    Owen Harries | 06 Jun 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    An edited version of a talk given to the Blackheath Philosophy Forum in March 2003.

  6. Understanding America

    Owen Harries | 04 Mar 2002 | Occasional Papers

    Our most urgent need is to understand America - both in terms of what it is and its impact on the world - for current US... Read More...

Opinion & Commentary by Author

  1. Different battles, different responses

    Owen Harries | 05 Jul 2006 | The Australian

    Recently, someone with a long memory asked me when and why my views on foreign policy had changed so radically. In the 1960s,... Read More

  2. We must dance with the devil

    Owen Harries | 29 Oct 2002 | The Australian

    IN the wake of the Bali bombing, it is imperative that we think clearly and, if necessary, coldly, about what the national... Read More

  3. The day the earth didn't change forever

    Owen Harries | 15 May 2002 | The Australian

    It has been observed that those who lack the imagination of disaster are doomed to be surprised by the world. Until September... Read More

  4. American pie losing its favour

    Owen Harries | 04 Apr 2002 | The Age

    We all know America, don't we? While we may confess to ignorance about Japan or Russia, or even France, we are confident... Read More

  5. Turning on axis distorts aim: The US should exercise restraint and prudence in its mission against the evils of terrorism

    Owen Harries | 04 Apr 2002 | The Australian

    As far as American foreign policy is concerned, there have been, and still are, two very different traditions existing alongside... Read More

  6. Be a realist, not a lap dog: A cooling off period will improve ties with indonesia

    Owen Harries | 04 Mar 2002 | The Australian

    Ours is an age that believes in action. Faced with a problem, virtually any problem, the demand is that someone—and these... Read More

  7. Who says we are in the doghouse? There is no such thing as world opinion

    Owen Harries | 04 Feb 2002 | The Australian

    In the eyes of much of the world,  the Australians of today are a relaxed, self-confident people, at ease with themselves. ... Read More

  8. How to win arguments and influence debate

    Owen Harries | 01 Feb 2002 | The Australian Financial Review

    Unlike its regional neighbours, and reflecting its Western origins, Australia has a political culture that revels in robust... Read More

  9. The wasted decade: In the 90's, America had unprecedented power, but did little with it. It must now rue its lost opportunity.

    Owen Harries | 18 Dec 2001 | The Age

    In the lead article of the current issue of the US journal Foreign Affairs, Fouad Ajami describes the 1990s as "a lucky decade,... Read More

  10. Morality and Foreign Policy

    Owen Harries | 07 Dec 2001 | ABC Radio

    Recent events have generated a great deal of discussion about morality and foreign policy.

  11. Guts to say no before it's too late

    Owen Harries | 28 Sep 2001 | The Australian

    Why such a panic about a mere 430 boat people?  Given the scale of the problem, was it not absurd that millions of taxpayer’s... Read More

  12. Time to reconsider our US ties

    Owen Harries | 10 Sep 2001 | The Australian Financial Review

    You win one, you lose one. Immediately after coming out of the Tampa affair well ahead politically, John Howard found that... Read More

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