Tony Kevin Lecture “Current Prospects for East-West Detente — Analysis by a Former Western Diplomat”

... his thirty -year career as an Australian diplomat 1968–98, most of which was spent during the Cold War years, and also analyses his subsequent experience as an independent author free to express his own opinions, independently of the direction of Australian foreign policy. He will discuss the current irresponsible and sharp tendencies to Russophobia in many Western capitals, and how these can be overcome by a return to a clear vision of international relations, based on firm and reliable communications, ...