Recently added articles from Melbourne Journal of Politics:
Military privatisation and its impact on the nature of warfare.
Jan 01, 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 ...
'Strange bedfellows?' Security, humanitarianism and the politics of protection.
Jan 01, 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 ...
London, July 2005: a failure of security?
Jan 01, 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 ...
Escaping India: an explanation of Pakistan's Middle East orientation.
Jan 01, 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 ...
Conceptualising European Union legitimacy through democratic participation.
Jan 01, 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 ...
Hidden in the curriculum: political literacy and education for citizenship in Australia.
Jan 01, 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 of the knowledge, skills and values to ...
The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression.(Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World )(Book review)
Jan 01, 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: Yale University Press, 2007. 306 pp. ...
Migration, Regional Integration and Human Security: The formation and Maintenance of Transnational Spaces.(Book review)
Jan 01, 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 edited a volume on three highly topical and ...
Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan.(Book review)
Jan 01, 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 1990s Japanese society, through which he ...
After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council.(Book review)
Jan 01, 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 asocial, the constructivist turn in ...
European Security after 9/11.(Book review)
Jan 01, 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 international security environment after ...
The mix of policy rationales in science and technology policy.
Jan 01, 2006;
Australian intergovernmental relations and the National Emissions Trading Scheme.
Jan 01, 2006;
Rights and wrongs: intercultural ethics and female genital mutilation.
Jan 01, 2006;
Negative exposure: a snapshot of ATSIC in Australia's mainstream print media.(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission)
Jan 01, 2006;
Objective, relative or plural? value pluralism and the status of universal values (1).
Jan 01, 2006;
Mapping, enumeration and government under Chinese socialism.
Jan 01, 2006;
The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency.(Book review)
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September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives.(Book review)
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The Europeanization of Citizenship: Between the Ideology of Nationality, Immigration and European Identity.(Book review)
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