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Oct 20, 2026
Craig BairdHOST
After all, Canada co-founded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, served on the UN Security Council for the first time, and was part of the Geneva Conference that attempted to bring peace to French Indochina.
Craig BairdHOST
Pierson served as the chair of the NATO Council from 1951 to 1952, the president of the UN's General Assembly in 1952, and was a key architect of the Colombo Plan to assist developing nations.
Craig BairdHOST
And he was once again put forward in 1953 as a possible Secretary General, but again the Soviet Union vetoed him.
Craig BairdHOST
Three years later, Pierson became the first Western foreign minister to visit the Soviet Union.
Toby ManhireHOST
Yeah.
Winston PetersGUEST
We had, uh, them, we were supporting them under the Colombo Plan, and we had two, um, battalions of our military up there-
Toby ManhireHOST
Hmm
Winston PetersGUEST
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Kofi BartelsHOST
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Kofi BartelsHOST
She is currently a trainer for the Colombo Plan on Child Intervention for Living Drug-Free Children.
Kofi BartelsHOST
and is a recovery ally.
Kofi BartelsHOST
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David OlssonGUEST
You need senior executives that have this experience, and the question has to be asked, what do we have? And then importantly, you need to look at the next generation of leaders coming through your organization.
David OlssonGUEST
Where is that next round of talent that has Asian capability? And in that respect, I'll put a plug in for initiatives such as the New Colombo Plan, which is the Australian government initiative to encourage virtually all undergraduate Australians to spend time overseas in the Indo-Pacific, studying, learning a language, doing some work experience.
David OlssonGUEST
That's the sort of skills and capabilities that organisations need to take advantage of.
David OlssonGUEST
They need to value it and they need to show that it's important to the community as a whole.
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David OlssonGUEST
We want you to help us continue as part of our economic transformation, our digital transformation, our innovative transformation, because we can see that we can be great partners together.
David OlssonGUEST
Now, I think that's been replicated in many places.
David OlssonGUEST
And wind the clock back decades, we had the original Colombo plan.
David OlssonGUEST
where we brought down students from all around Southeast Asia to Australia, many of whom have gone back and become prime ministers, leaders of government, influential business leaders, and they hold very strong memories of their time in Australia and their willingness to come along on this journey with them.
Winston PetersGUEST
They weren't richer than us.
Winston PetersGUEST
We used to support them under the Colombo Plan.
Winston PetersGUEST
We had two pla- two battalion of soldiers up there.
Winston PetersGUEST
Our currency was seven times more than their, theirs.
Mark CullyGUEST
And one of the things it managed to pick up on in its wide-ranging terms of reference was, and this came from Helen Hughes, who was a development economist on that committee.
Mark CullyGUEST
And she said, scholarships available through things like the Colombo Plan is a form of industry protection and should be scrapped.
Mark CullyGUEST
They're stymieing the entrepreneurial spirit of Australian universities.
Mark CullyGUEST
And we should let, if people want, international students want to come here, they should pay full fees.
David LoweGUEST
It was the start of my career as an academic.
David LoweGUEST
And as I was developing some thoughts about the Cold War, I came across the Colombo Plan, which, as you say, starts off in 1950, 51, right in the middle of the century.
David LoweGUEST
And I had to put it to one side at the time, but I really always wanted to come back to it because it didn't quite fit.
David LoweGUEST
As you were summarizing, it didn't quite fit the conventional parameters of power, conventional frameworks of power that we find in many Cold War accounts.
David LoweGUEST
There was something different about the Colombo Plan.
David LoweGUEST
It, to me, conjured the notion of a more experimental form of international relations, a sense of possibilities that people entertained.
David LoweGUEST
And so I always wanted to come back to it.
David LoweGUEST
And it took me a little while, but I actually did come back to it in the shape of this book.
Miranda MelcherHOST
Hello, and welcome to another episode on the New Books Network.
Miranda MelcherHOST
I'm one of your hosts, Dr. Miranda Belcher, and I'm very pleased today to be speaking with Professor David Lowe about his book titled The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.
Miranda MelcherHOST
Now, this book takes us to the middle of the 20th century really, where obviously there's a lot of things going on in international relations.
Miranda MelcherHOST
But often the focus is when we're talking about the phrase the Cold War, sort of what's happening between the US and the USSR, um, and kind of what, you know, different countries are doing in terms of those different camps and maneuvering in that sphere.
David LoweGUEST
And that was, that was great.
David LoweGUEST
Um, it was the, the start of my career as an academic.
David LoweGUEST
Um, and as I was developing some thoughts about the Cold War, I came across The Colombo Plan, which as you say, starts off in 1950, '51, right in the middle of the, the century.
David LoweGUEST
And I had to put it to one side at the time, but I really always wanted to come back to it because it didn't quite fit.
David LoweGUEST
It was the start of my career as an academic.
David LoweGUEST
And as I was developing some thoughts about the Cold War, I came across the Colombo Plan, which, as you say, starts off in 1950, 51, right in the middle of the century.
David LoweGUEST
And I had to put it to one side at the time, but I really always wanted to come back to it because it didn't quite fit.
David LoweGUEST
As you were summarizing, it didn't quite fit the conventional parameters of power, conventional frameworks of power that we find in many Cold War accounts.
David LoweGUEST
There was something different about the Colombo Plan.
David LoweGUEST
It, to me, conjured the notion of a more experimental form of international relations, a sense of possibilities that people entertained.
David LoweGUEST
And so I always wanted to come back to it.
David LoweGUEST
And it took me a little while, but I eventually did come back to it in the shape of this book.
David LoweGUEST
It was the start of my career as an academic.
David LoweGUEST
And as I was developing some thoughts about the Cold War, I came across the Colombo Plan, which, as you say, starts off in 1950, 51, right in the middle of the century.
David LoweGUEST
And I had to put it to one side at the time, but I really always wanted to come back to it because it didn't quite fit.
David LoweGUEST
As you were summarizing, it didn't quite fit the conventional parameters of power, conventional frameworks of power that we find in many Cold War accounts.
David LoweGUEST
There was something different about the Colombo Plan.
David LoweGUEST
It, to me, conjured the notion of a more experimental form of international relations, a sense of possibilities that people entertained.
David LoweGUEST
And so I always wanted to come back to it.
David LoweGUEST
And it took me a little while, but I eventually did come back to it in the shape of this book.
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