Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 2005

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 2005

The 'ASEAN Way': towards regional order and security cooperation?(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
January 1, 2005... Abstract ASEAN is often regarded as the paragon case of successful regional security cooperation, and attributes its achievement to its political formula: the behavioural and procedural norms that have now become the bedrock of the...

Rhetoric, questioning, and policy theory: beyond the 'argumentative turn' (1).
January 1, 2005... Abstract The argumentative turn in policy theory represents an important critique of the scientific conception of policy making. It showed that uncertainty and contingency characterise policy discourse, and that policy making is...

'Quite good theatre'? The productivity commission and architectural regulation.
January 1, 2005... Abstract The Inquiry into architectural regulation was the first national, public review of the regulation of a profession under National Competition Policy. Architects urged maintenance of regulation; the Productivity Commission, equally...

'The woman should reign and the man govern': gendering Kant's body politic.(Immanuel Kant)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... Abstract This article is inspired by a reference in Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View in which he invokes the relationship between a minister and his monarch to discuss the relative authority of a bourgeois husband and...

Civilisation under siege? September 11, Oriana Fallaci, Islam, and us (1).(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... Abstract In the wake of the devastation of September 11, 2001, legendary Italian writer Oriana Fallaci published a mammoth article, then book, La rabbia e l'orgoglio [The Rage and the Pride], which attacked Islam as institutionalised...

When poets take up arms: combating (hyper)real wars under the abstractions of the new empire.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2005... Abstract This article charts the emergence of a contemporary political movement in Australian poetry-one which responds to the West's involvement in Iraq with a creative and critical activism-whose poetry represents a calling to arms for...

Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Australia's Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of Money Stephen Bell Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004 $59.95 In September 1999, The Economist began a survey of the world economy on a cautionary note: 'Central...

How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... How To Kill a Country: Australia's devastating trade deal with the United States Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon, John Mathews Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 2004. $24.95 During the final round of negotiations for the Australia-United...

The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image James Curran Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2004 $35.00 In a section of this book concentrating on the current Prime Minister, Curran cites Howard...

Australian Citizenship.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Australian Citizenship Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2004 $39.95 Galligan and Roberts stake their territory early (even before the Contents page) in the dedication of their book 'To the memory of...

The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... The Lowest Rung. Voices of Australian Poverty Mark Peel Cambridge & New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. $29.95 This is an extraordinary book. In the last few years there have been many books written about the impact of economic...

Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant (eds) North Melbourne, Spinifex Press, 2004. $34.95 Not For Sale is a must-read anthology about the transnational sex industry. It is a...

Humanitarian Intervention - Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas.(Reading Humanitarian Intervention - Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law)(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Humanitarian Intervention--Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas J. L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane (eds), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003 19.99GBP Reading Humanitarian Intervention--Human Rights and the Use of Force in...

Authors Take Sides - Iraq and the Gulf War.(Book review)
January 1, 2005... Authors Take Sides--Iraq and the Gulf War Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Cecil Woolf (eds) Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2004. $29.95 Authors Take Sides is a book made up of two distinct parts about two different wars, written by...