Melbourne Journal of Politics articles from January 1 2007

Melbourne Journal of Politics archives from January 1 2007

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Hidden in the curriculum: political literacy and education for citizenship in Australia.
January 1, 2007... Abstract For almost 30 years the concept of 'political literacy' has been the focus of academic commentary as well as providing a theoretical framework for education. The term was recently described in the United Kingdom as the acquisition...

The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression.(Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World )(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression James Mann New York: Viking Penguin, 2007. 127 pp. ISBN 0670038253 US$19.95 Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World Joshua Kurlantzick New Haven:...

Migration, Regional Integration and Human Security: The formation and Maintenance of Transnational Spaces.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Migration, Regional Integration and Human Security: The formation and Maintenance of Transnational Spaces. Harald Kleinschmidt (Ed), Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 289pp. ISBN-10: 0 7546 4646 7 (Hbk.) $99 Harald Kleinschmidt has...

Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan David Leheny Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2006. 248pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4418-0 $35 In this book, David Leheny considers a feeling of anxiety prevalent in...

After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council Ian Hurd Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. 221pp. ISBN-13 :9780691128665 / 10: 0691128669 $35 US By challenging the assumption that anarchy must be...

European Security after 9/11.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... European Security after 9/11 Peter Shearman and Matthew Sussex (eds.) Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004. 165 pp. ISBN 0754635945 $99.95 / 55.00 [pounds sterling] There is by now an immense body of scholarship attempting to make sense of the new...