The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2003

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2003

Reflections on 11 September 2001 editorial introduction.
September 1, 2003... When John Maynard Keynes, in 1920, commented on the likely effects of the victors' attempts to punish Germany and to exact compensation for the costs of the First World War, he castigated the "insane delusion and reckless self-regard" that had...

Apocalypse forever? International relations implications of 11 September.
September 1, 2003... Ever since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the world has been coming to terms with their meaning for international relations (IR) in our time. The plethora of analysis and reflection emanating from the event yields...

Apocalypse forever? A comment.(international relations, global powers and antiterrorism)
September 1, 2003... This paper engages with that by William Tow. By discussing the contentious aspects of the interpretive traditions used in Tow's article and further interrogating the distinction between hard power and soft power, it draws attention to the...

Globalisation, security and international order after 11 September.
September 1, 2003... For a country whose power and influence is unprecedented in the modern period, and whose unipolar dominance is routinely compared to ancient Rome's, (2) the events of 11 September came as a profound shock. Not only were the intelligence...

Counter-terrorism and the criminalisation of politics: Australia's new security powers of detention, proscription and control.
September 1, 2003... In the post-11 September security developments, both internationally and domestically, counter-terrorism has become the "new organising principle" for a resurgence in national security rhetoric and unfettered practice. (2) Just weeks after the...

Democratic deficit, the global trade system and 11 September.
September 1, 2003... In an era of globalisation and increasing interdependence between nations, the importance of global institutions has never been more evident. To the extent that international politics is concerned with the expression of fundamental differences...

What have we done wrong? The responsibilities of the rich.(Western political, intellectual elite)
September 1, 2003... Intellectuals have intellectual responsibilities. We should scarcely be surprised that reflective responses to the attacks on New York and Washington of 11 September 2001 set out to explore their background in western countries' policies...

The "crusade" against evil: Bush's fundamentalism.(George W. Bush)
September 1, 2003... For many Americans, the disaster of 11 September 2001, was a religious moment. At least for a short time after the attack prophetic utterances abounded. The spectre of sudden death on a mass scale strikes at the heart of people's beings. It was...

Western images of Islam, 1700-1900.
September 1, 2003... A silent great soul; he was one of those who cannot but be in earnest; whom Nature herself has appointed to be sincere. While others walk in formulas and hearsays, contented enough to dwell there, this man could not screen...

Religious citizenship.
September 1, 2003... Religious government is a neglected topic, partly because western political theory has tended to minimise the importance of religion in political contexts, Indeed, many writers on politics assume that religion has no legitimate political role....

Aestheticising terrorism: alternative approaches to 11 September.
September 1, 2003... Few events in global politics have been as influential as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The shock was profound. The impact global. The subsequent US-led military campaign in Afghanistan...

Crime that pays: the global spread of the Russian Mafia.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2003... Red Maria: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. By Robert l. Friedman (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co.), 2000; 296 pp.; ISBN 0-316-29474-8 (cloth); US$25.95. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. By Paul...

William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor-General.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Christopher Cunneen, (Sydney, UNSW Press, 2000), xii + 271 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-86840-587-6. Born in 1891, in the same year as the Labor Party's birth, William McKell led the party in government in NSW and remains to this day one of the...

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: the ANZUS Treaty 1951.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Roger Holdich, Vivianne Johnson and Pamela Andre. (Canberra: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2001). Pp. xxxv+263. $a54.95 HB;$A32.95PB. Recent developments in international relations have underscored the centrality of...

Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Michael Keating, John Wanna and Patrick Weller eds. (St Leonards NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2000) $35.00. This is the second book in a series exploring aspects of Australia's governance. It sets out to investigate how capable our political...

George Pell.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Tess Livingstone. Foreword by George Weigel. (Sydney: Duffy and Snellgrove, 2002), pp. 484. $22.00 Biographies of Churchmen are not usually of interest to anyone but to members of their particular flock. But times have changed. If we...

Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Micheal O Siochru. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001), pp. 288. 35.44 [pound sterling]. Micheal O Siochru's volume charts developments in Ireland in the aftermath of the Ulster rising in October 1641, taking into account...

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan. German War Planning 1871-1914.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Terence Zuber. (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp.xii + 340. 13 maps. 45.00 [pound sterling]. "There never was a Schlieffen plan." This is the controversial thesis of Terence Zuber's study of German strategic thinking...

Greece since 1945: Politics, Economy and Society.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By David H. Close. (London: Longman, 2002), pp. xviii + 307. $49.95 For most of the post-war period, history-writing in Greece was a potentially dangerous exercise. The Second World War in particular was a taboo subject, as so many wartime...

Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams. (Cambridge University Press, 2000). 12.59 [pound sterling](pb). Contesting Global Governance is a thorough and impressive study of the relationship between...

Global Insecurity: Restructuring the Global Military Sector, Volume III.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by Mary Kaldor. (London and New York: Pinter: 2000). ISBN 1-85567-644-3 (hbk). 244 pp. Index. $37.95. This is the third of three books published as a result of a major international research project funded by the United Nations...

Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 367 pp. Index. Pbk. ISBN 0-691-08799-7.US$19.95 Boundaries are some of the most persistent features of politics. They help to identify and demarcate...

Crossing Borders: Political Essays.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By Bernard Crick. (London, New York: Continuum, 2001), viii + 216pp. 30.00 [pound sterling]. I came to know Bernard Crick when he was supervising my PhD at LSE in the early 1960s. He was then best known for his American Science of Politics...

Henry Albinski 1931-2003.
September 1, 2003... As one of this journal's most longstanding contributors, Professor Henry Albinski dedicated his life to advancing Australian-New Zealand studies in North America and internationally. He founded the Australian and New Zealand Studies Centre at...