Melbourne Journal of Politics articles

Recent articles from Melbourne Journal of Politics

Military privatisation and its impact on the nature of warfare.
January 1, 2007... Abstract The rise and proliferation of private military companies (PMCs) came in response to the changing political, strategic and economic environment following the Cold War. Certain places more than others, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, have required the services of such external...

'Strange bedfellows?' Security, humanitarianism and the politics of protection.
January 1, 2007... Abstract The 'politics of protection' is overwhelmingly a politics of competing discourses about the legitimacy and authority to protect, i.e., who has a right to act as protector, in what circumstances and within what kind of limits. Yet one of the most insidious outcomes of the ever...

London, July 2005: a failure of security?
January 1, 2007... Abstract This paper is a detailed study of the group psychology of the population of London during the events of July 2005. The consideration includes analysis of the symbolic and functional roles of the security forces and governing authorities involved in these events. It concludes...

Escaping India: an explanation of Pakistan's Middle East orientation.
January 1, 2007... Abstract Pakistan is an integral part of South Asia in geographic, cultural, linguistic and historic terms but its rulers have emphasized the country's relations with the Middle East since independence in 1947. The desire to simultaneously find national cohesion and a significant role on...

Conceptualising European Union legitimacy through democratic participation.
January 1, 2007... Abstract Against a backdrop of democratic and legitimacy theory, I critically re-examine the European Union's purported 'democratic deficit' and question whether it has continued relevance as a 'de-legitimating' force. I consider the provisions on representative and participatory...