Politics Research
Staff Research Papers
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James Cotton
- Australia's Interest in East Timor
- East Timor: Australian Policy Lecture Outline
- East Timor: Political History Lecture Outline
- The New Insecurity in Asia
- Prospects on the Korean Peninsula: A Package Deal?
- A Radical Experiment: The Evidence is in from North Korea's Rajin-Sonbong Area
- Theorizing Singapore: State, Class, Society, Ethnicity
- Timor Talks Produce Little of Substance
Aurelia George Mulgan
- International Peacekeeping and Japan's Response to the Challenge of Collective Security [pdf]
- The Japan-US Security Partnership: Defending Peace and Security in the Asia Pacific [pdf]
- The Politics of Deregulation and Japanese Agriculture
- Submission to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee Inquiry into Japan [pdf]
- Japan-Strategic Update 99. Paper prepared for the Strategic Update'99 Conference, Parliament House, Canberra, 28-29 September 1999. [pdf]
- Japan's Economic Security Linkages. Northeast Asia Program, Department of International Relations, RSPAS, ANU Workshop, 12 December 1995.[pdf]
- The Japan-US Security Relationship. Paper presented to the IISS/SDSC Conference on "The New Security Agenda in the Asia-Pacific Region" [pdf]
- 'Japan Inc.' in the Agricultural Sector: Reform or Regression? Published under the same title in the Pacific Economic Papers series, No. 314, April 2001, 92pp, Canberra, Australia-Japan Research Centre, ANU. [pdf]
- "Electoral Pressures for Change: The Effects of Political Reform" Discussant Paper presented to the "Beyond Japan Inc.: Transparency and Reform in Japanese Governance" International Conference, ANU, 20 September, 1999.[pdf]
Malcolm Mackerras
- Factual Error Ruins an Argument
- Head of State Sleight of Hand
- Keeping Politics in Proportion: South Africa's New President Has Something John Howard Can Only Dream Of
Hugh Smith
- Assassination and Yugoslavia: Next move--off with the head of State?
- NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: Is the humanitarian war breaking the global law?
- Peacekeeping in East Timor: Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst
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Carlyle Thayer
- Arms Control in Southeast Asia [pdf]
- ASEAN: From Constructive Engagement to Flexible Intervention
- Australia-Indonesia Relations: The Case of East Timor [pdf]
- Vietnam's Integration into the Region and the Asian Financial Crisis [pdf]
- Vietnam, the Asian Financial Crisis and Doi Moi 2 [pdf]
- "Written Testimony: Statement by Dr. Carlyle A. Thayer," Hearing on Religious-Freedom Violations in Vietnam, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2001. 17pp.
http://www.uscirf.gov/hearings/13feb01/thayerPT.php3 - "Reform Immobilism: The Prospects for Doi Moi," Paper to 2nd International Conference on Prosperity for the People of Vietnam, co-sponsored by Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Vietnamese Professionals of America, Inc., and l'Association des Techniciens Vietnamiens d'Outre-Mer, Kenney Auditorium, John Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 16-18, 2000.
- "Vietnam and ASEAN," Paper to 2nd International Conference on Prosperity for the People of Vietnam, co-sponsored by Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Vietnamese Professionals of America, Inc., and l'Association des Techniciens Vietnamiens d'Outre-Mer, Kenney Auditorium, John Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., November 16-18, 2000.
- "The Economic and Commercial Roles of the Vietnam People's Army," Paper to conference on Soldiers in Business: The Military as an Economic Actor, co-sponsored by Bonn International Center for Conversion and Institute for Policy and Community Development Studies, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia October 17-19, 2000.
- "Regional Military Modernization Strategies and Trends," Paper to Security and Societal Trends in Southeast Asia, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C., September 6-7, 2000. [pdf]
- "The Economic and Commercial Roles of the Vietnam People's Army," Paper to the panel Soldiers of Fortune? - The Political Economy of Civil-Military Relations in Socialist Asia, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, California, March 9-12, 2000. [pdf]
- "Vietnam's Doi Moi Policy: Progress and Prospects," Paper to Confidence Building and Conflict Reduction 15th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, organized by ASEAN-ISIS and ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 4-7, 2001. [pdf]
- "Vietnamese Perspectives on the 'China Threat'," Paper to international conference on China Threat Perceptions from Different Countries, China Studies Programme and Department of Government & International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, with support of the International Institute of Macau, Hong Kong, January 11-12, 2001. [pdf]
- "Challenges to ASEAN Cohesion: The Policy of Constructive Engagement and a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea," paper to international workshop on Regionalism and Globalism in Southeast Asia, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tampere and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Åbo Akademi and Åbo Akademi University, Marienhamn, Aland, Finland, June 2-4, 2000. [pdf]
- "Political Transition and the Prospects for Democratization in Southeast Asia: The States of Former Indochina," to International Conference on Asia in the Next Millennium: Prospects for Peace and Development, Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and Hotung Institute of International Studies (Hong Kong), Shangri-la Plaza Hotel, Makati City, Philippines, January 7-8, 2000. [pdf]
- "L'Armee Vietnamienne, Acteur du Development Economique?" Paper delivered in absentia to Colloque Le Viet Nam Depuis 1945: Etat, Marges et Constructions du Passe," sponsored by Groupe d'Etudes sur le Viet Nam Contemporain, Sciences po de Paris, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, January 11-12, 2001 (with Gerard Hervouet). [pdf]
- "Vietnam's Reform Program: Is Progress Possible?" Inaugural Tomorrow Vietnamese Forum, co-sponsored by the Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston-Downtown and Tammy Tran & Associates, Attorneys-at-Law, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas, April 21, 2001. [pdf]
- "The Impact of Conflict on China's Relations with Southeast Asia and Australia," Paper to conference on The Costs of Conflict, co-sponsored by The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, December 1-3, 2000. [pdf]