ABSTRACT
Senator Evans’s proposal that good international citizenship should be a central premise of Australia’s foreign policy forms the background to the present discussion (Evans 1989a, 1989b). When advocating good international citizenship, Senator Evans does not claim that the pursuit of national interests must be renounced forthwith. Instead, the argument is that foreign policy must also be animated by more elevated concerns such as promoting world order, encouraging global reform and honouring duties to humanity. The good international citizen will blend the best in – to use Senator Evans’s own terminology – realism and idealism.
