Australia in a multipolar world

five footnotes on my appearance on The Duran

On 27 February I appeared on The Duran show on YouTube and other platforms. This post adds five quick footnotes to that discussion of Australia’s role in a multipolar world. It may interest readers around the world since, in many ways, the challenge for Australia to adapt to the multipolar world is shared by the rest of the world.

Big thanks to Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris for hosting me on their show, and to all the viewers who chose to join me here on Substack. (I promise I will work out some better lighting for nighttime recording soon!)

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My five footnotes on Australia’s role in a multipolar world are delivered in the following video message.

The references and links referred to in the footnote are here if you want to follow them up.

1. James Curran, Australia’s China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear (2022)

2. John Darwin, The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 on Australia’s role as a powerful dominion in the British world system.

3. Centre for Independent Studies, In Depth Q&A: Mearsheimer and Varghese disagree on US Grand Strategy, Ukraine, Russia and China. On Peter Varghese view China still sees itself as the “Middle Kingdom’ of the world, read Timothy Brook, Great State: China and the World (2021)

4. Dr S. Jaishankar The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World (2020) of Diplomacy with

5. My (free) post, The world was always multipolar, and the latest in my (for patrons) series on the brief history of the multipolar world, Globalisation in the 19th century multipolar world.

I have also recently updated my general author website - you can read it at both www.theburningarchive.com and jeffrichwriter.com. The website includes pointers to my books, articles, podcasts and courses.

Yes, my first online history course, World History Explorers 1: Civilizations is starting next week. Information on this online world history book club is here, and I wrote a substack post on it recently.