Owen Harries
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Owen Harries | |
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Australian Ambassador to UNESCO | |
In office 1982–1983 | |
Editor-in-chief, The National Interest | |
In office 1985–2001 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Owen Harries 29 March 1930 Garnant, Wales |
Died | 25 June 2020 | (aged 90)
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Dorothy Richards |
Parent(s) | David Harries and Maud Jones |
Alma mater | University of Wales Lincoln College, University of Oxford |
Occupation | Academic and writer |
Owen Harries (23 March 1930 – 25 June 2020) was a leading Australian foreign-policy intellectual and founding editor of The National Interest magazine in Washington, DC.
Early life and education
Harries was born in
Career
After two years in the Royal Air Force in the early 1950s, he and his wife Dorothy moved to Sydney. From 1955 to 1975, he was a senior lecturer in government at the University of Sydney and then an associate professor of politics at the University of New South Wales, before a sojourn teaching at the Australian National University in Canberra.
From 1976 to 1983, he served the Australian centre-right coalition government of prime minister Malcolm Fraser in several senior posts, including head of policy planning in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, senior adviser to both Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock and Fraser, as well as Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris.
During this period, he was widely credited for principally drafting Australia’s foreign policy in the post-
The National Interest (1985–2001)
He was co-founder with Irving Kristol and co-editor with Robert W. Tucker of The National Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy magazine, which they turned into one of America’s most influential political publications. Over the years, they published essays by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel P. Huntington, Henry Kissinger, Fareed Zakaria, Irving Kristol, and others. According to The Bulletin, during his co-editorship from 1985 to 2001 he was "known as probably the most famous Australian in Washington".[1]
After returning to
Ideas and writings
Harries was influential in policy debates, especially
In the 1960s, he was a prominent supporter of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Four decades later, he was a trenchant critic of the Iraq War, of the leading intellectual architects of that war, and of Australia’s involvement in it. In 2003, in the heat of the Iraq debate, he delivered the ABC’s Boyer Lectures, which have been published under the title.[2]
Harries was a member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, a group that produced
Over the years, he edited and contributed to several books on culture, politics and international relations. He was also a regular contributor to several newspapers around the world, including the
In 2011, Harries was presented for admission to the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) at the University of Sydney.[1]
Death
Harries died in Sydney on 25 June 2020, at age 90.[4]
Articles
- Harries, Owen (1 September 1984). "A Primer for Polemicists". Commentary. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- Harries, Owen; Switzer, Tom (Summer 2006). "Loyal to a Fault". The American Interest. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010.
- Harries, Owen; Switzer, Tom (3 October 2006). "Little magazine leaves big mark". The Australian.
- Harries, Owen; Switzer, Tom (21 January 2011). "US strikes the right balance on China". The Australian.
- Harries, Owen; Switzer, Tom (May–June 2013). "Leading from Behind: Third Time a Charm?". The American Interest. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
References
- ^ a b Sales, Leigh (23 April 2010). "Well read-head: predicting the future a recipe for stress". The Punch. Archived from the original on 25 April 2010.
- ^ Harries, Owen (21 December 2003). "Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- ^ National Archives of Australia: Miscellaneous papers of the Secretary of the Department; A9221, [Sir John Bunting (Secretary)] Correspondence with Governor-General [includes letters from Lord Casey to Sir Robert Menzies and Harold Holt], 04 Oct 1965 - 10 Nov 1969; 18, 11457739
- Spectator Australia.