Quarterly Essay #98, Hugh White: Hard New World: Our Post-American Future. (June 2025)
Sat, Jun 28, 2025./noise/books | LinkKindle. There is opportunity in the current chaos! But does anyone think that Australia's leadership can grasp it?
Against Mishra he provides a solid, brief bibliography that deserves a scrape. I now wonder if Fred Kaplan gave Des Ball his due (Can Nuclear War Be Controlled?, Adelphi Papers 1981). He does not cite Daniel Ellsberg or his pithy take, that nuclear weapons are used all the time, as threats. On the other hand I'm sure Mishra would argue that the extended peace in Imperial Europe and the Americas up the World War I was underpinned by extreme violence in the colonies.
Excerpted everywhere but there are not many reviews yet. White is extensively touring; for instance he spoke with Allan Behm at the ANU recently.
