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The present issue of National Observer includes a wide range of articles, each of which is pertinent in some sense to Australia's national interest.

While this journal is not invariably uncritical of particular aspects of American foreign policy, it strongly supports the Australian-American alliance and generally endorses the global influence of what has become known as "the Anglosphere", of which we in Australia are a part. The powerful cultural influence exercised by the United States and Britain over the past hundred and more years has not been forced upon the rest of the world, but generally accepted enthusiastically from China to Peru. Soccer is just one example. Equally impressive has been the effective and generally benevolent use of political and military power by the Anglosphere, not just throughout the twentieth century but even and perhaps especially today.

Professor Claudio Veliz is recognised in the United States as amongst the foremost theoreticians of "the Anglosphere", particularly by way of his book The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America (1994). In his article in this issue of National Observer, he examines the...