Publications 2008

Books | Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Centre Working Papers | Conference Papers | Media Publications | Book Reviews | Other Publications

Books

• Understanding Ethnic Conflict: The International Dimension, 3rd edition, Longman, 319pp. (with Ray Taras)

Samuel Makinda

• The African Union: Challenges of Globalization, Security and Governance, Routledge, 209 pp. (with F. Wafula Okumu)

Malcolm Tull (ed.)

• Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar. (with James Reveley)

James Warren

• Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia, University of Western Australia Press.

Book Chapters

David Brown

• ‘Nation Building: from a world of nations to a world of nationalisms’, in Guntram Herb and David Kaplan (eds) Nations and Nationalisms: a global historical overview: Volume 3 1945-1989, ABC-CLIO.

Yingchi Chu

• ‘The emergence of polyphony in Chinese television documentaries’, in Krishna Sen and Terence Lee (eds) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia, Routledge, pp.49-69.

Rajat Ganguly

• ‘The South Asian Security Scenario in 2008-09’, in South Asia 2009, 6th edition. Routledge, pp. 3-13.

David T. Hill

• ‘Indonesia: Electoral Politics and the Internet’, in Stephen Ward, Diana Owen, Richard Davis and David Taras (eds) Making a difference: A comparative view of the role of the Internet in election politics, Lexington Press, pp.75-92.
• ‘Media and Politics in Regional Indonesia: The Case of Manado’, in Krishna Sen and Terence Lee (eds) Political Regimes and the Media in Asia, Routledge, pp.188-207.

• 'Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects’, in Barbara Harrison (ed.) Life Story Research, Vol. IV, Part 5, Sage, pp.146-161
  

Caroline Hughes

• ‘Civil Society in South East Asia’, in Mark Beeson (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia, Macmillan
  

Kanishka Jayasuriya

• 'New Modes of Regionalising Governance in Asia' in Nicholas Thomas (ed.) Governance and Regionalism in Asia, Routledge, pp.321-333
• 'Riding the Accountability Wave: Accountability Communities and New Modes of Governance' in T. Ginsburg and A. Chen Administrative Law and Governance in Asia:Comparative Perspectives, Routledge, pp. 59-78
• 'Struggle over legality in the midnight hour: governing the international state of emergency' in Victor V. Ramraj (ed.) Emergencies and the Limits of Legality, Cambridge University Press, pp. 360-84

Terence Lee

• ‘Gestural Politics: Mediating the ‘New’ Singapore’, in Krishna Sen and Terence Lee Political Regimes and the Media in Asia, London: Routledge
• 'Industrializing creativity and innovation', in Kenneth Paul Tan, Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics, Singapore: NUS Press, pp.45-70

• 'State or Market? Privatising Maritime Security in Southeast Asia', in D. Sujatha (ed.) Maritime Law: International Perspective, Icfai University Press, 2008.

• 'The Left-Wing Trade Unions in Singapore, 1945-1970', in Michael Barr and Carl Trocki (eds) Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore, NUS Press, pp. 206-27. (with Michael Fernandez)

• 'The impact of the War on Terror on Governance and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa', in Wafula Okumu and Anneli Botha (eds) Understanding Terrorism in Africa: Building Bridges and Overcoming the Gaps, Institute for Security Studies, pp. 32-35.

• 'Singapore "Exceptionalism"? Authoritarian Rule and State Transformation', in Joseph Wong and Edward Friedman (eds) Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose, Routledge, pp. 231-51.
• 'Political Regimes in Southeast Asia and the War on Terror' in Damian Grenfell and Paul James (eds) Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond savage globalization? Routledge, pp. 125-37.

Malcolm Tull

• ‘Introduction: Port Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region’, in Malcolm Tull and James Reveley (eds) Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar, pp. 1-16. (with James Reveley)
• 'Privatisation Postponed: Convergence and Divergence in Australian and New Zealand Port Reform’, in Malcolm Tull and James Reveley (eds) Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience, Edward Elgar, pp.17-50. (with James Reveley)

Carol Warren

• 'Kapital Sosial di Bali - Sinergi dan Tantangan', in IBG Yudha Triguna (ed) 2008 Kebudayaan dan Modal Budaya Bali dalam Teropong Lokal, Nasional, Global, Widya Dharma, pp. 63-76.

Ian Wilson

• ‘As long as it’s Halal: Islamic Preman in Jakarta’ in Greg Fealy and Sally White (eds) Expressing Islam: Islamic Life and Politics in Indonesia, ISEAS, pp. 192-210

Guest Edited Journal Collections

• Tangent, special issue, ‘The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History’, 6(2).

• Inside Indonesia, special issue, ‘Crime and Criminality’, 92.
  

Journal Articles

• ‘The Ethnic Majority: benign or malign’, Nations and Nationalism, 14(4): 768-788

Shahar Hameiri

• ‘Risk Management, Neoliberalism and the Securitisation of the Australian Aid Program’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(3): 357-71.

• 'In the shadow of other lives: reflections on Dan Lev and writing biography', RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs), 42(2): 147-60.

• ‘Cambodia in 2007: Development and Dispossession’, Asian Survey 48.1 (2008): 69-74.

• ‘Land titling and poverty reduction in Southeast Asia: realizing markets or realizing rights?’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(3): 332-44

• ‘“Our lives are bad but our luck is good”: A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore’, Social History of Medicine, 21(2): 291-309.

• ‘Managing Integrity: The Regulation of Post Public Employment in Britain and Hong Kong’, Public Organization Review, 8(4): 365-380

Malcolm Tull

• ‘The Performance of Western Australian Ports’, Ocean Economics Review of China, 2(1), June: 1-33. (with Fred Affleck)
• 'Restricting Fishing: A Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Of Artisanal Shark And Ray Fishing In Cilacap’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44(2), August: 263 – 288. (with Simon Vieira)

• ‘War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies, 5(2) July: 187-218.

Centre Working Paper Series

Loh Kah Seng

• ‘Fires and the Social Politics of Nation-Building in Singapore’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 149.

Terence Lee and Cornelius Kan

• ‘Blogospheric Pressures in Singapore: Internet Discourses and the 2006 General Election’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 150.

Kanishka Jayasuriya

• ‘From British Subjects to Australian Values: Australia–Asia Relations as Citizenship Building’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 151.

Carolin Liss

• ‘Privatising the Fight against Somali Pirates’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 152.

Media Publications

• 'The politics of the financial crisis' Bangkok Post, 7 October (with Toby Carroll).

• 'Big neighbour fading from our radar', The Australian (Higher Education supplement), 12 March p.25, ; Reprinted in The Jakarta Post, 19 March
• 'Promoting Linguistic Assets', Campus Review, 22 April, p.10.

• 'Approaching Life and Death: History and Memory in Interviews with Individuals Formerly Suffering from Leprosy in Singapore'. s/pores. 1(2), January,
• 'Introduction: At the Gates of History', Tangent special issue, The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. 6(2): 6-11 (Mandarin), 12-17 (English).
• 'Presently Seeking the Bukit Ho Swee Fire'. Tangent special issue, The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. 6(2): 143-54 (Mandarin), 155-66 (English).

• Business Daily, Nairobi, weekly column 'On Kenya', the Australian, 8 January
• 'On Zimbabwe', the Australian, 24 June

• 'Singapore Maneuvers In Response to Chee,' Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2008, pp.

• 'The rise and fall of a Jakarta gangster', Inside Indonesia, 92.

Conference Papers

• ‘Border Management Post-9/11: A Comparative Assessment of the United States’ and Australia’s Asylum Policy’, Border Management in an Uncertain World, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA), Wellington, New Zealand, 12 March.
• ‘Pakistan as a Rogue State’, 49th Annual International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, USA, 26-29 March.

• ‘The Fallacy of Capacity: is it State Building or State Transformation’, 49th Annual International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 25-29 March 2008.

• ‘From Nation of Heroes to Ethnic Conflict: The 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste’, Post-Conflict Development or Development for Conflict workshop, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.
• ‘The Political Economy of State Reform in Cambodia’, AAS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, US. (with Kheang Un)

• ‘Private Governance and Urban Land Reform in Manila’, 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Philippine Social Science Centre, Manila, 23-26 July.

• ‘Rethinking Creative Culture: Globalization and the Singapore-Perth Network’, SPICES 2008: The 3rd International Conference on Inter-Asian Culture, Communication, Conflict and Peace, Penang, Malaysia, 7-9 August.
• ‘Internet Development in Singapore: A Regulatory Approach Towards Online Discourses’, Internet Histories II: Australia and the Asia-Pacific Workshop, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, 14 June.

• ‘Understanding Terrorism in Africa: An Overview’, Assessing Effective Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Measures in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 20-22 October.

• ‘The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia’, Still the Asian Century?, University of Birmingham, UK, 10-12 September.
• ‘Capitalist Development and the Social Foundations of Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia’, Liu Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 29 July.
• ‘New Modes of Political Participation and Singapore’s Nominated Members of Parliament’, Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions and Agency, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 9-10 May.
• ‘Capitalist Development, Regime Transitions and New Forms of Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia’, 20 Years of The Pacific Review: Major Developments in the Study of the Asia-Pacific, joint conference of Warwick University and Waseda University, Tokyo, 11-12 April.
• ‘New Modes of Governance and Japan’s Role in Asia’, Where Is Japan Headed? Views and Expectations from Overseas, Organization for Asian Studies Symposium, Waseda University, Tokyo, 12 April.

• 'The Changing Face of Ethical Regulation in the Public Sectors of Britain and Hong Kong,' University of Macau, 16 October.

• ‘Towards a History from below: Some reflections on Emergency, Resettlement and New Villages’, IKMAS: UKM (National University of Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, 24 April.
• ‘Seeing the “State”: the Methods and Controlled techniques of the British Colonial Government in the New Villages in Malaya’, 60th Anniversary of the Emergency in Malaya/Malaysia Public Forum, Kuala Lumpur, 27 April.

• ‘Father Jose Algue, Jesuit Meteorology and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924’, 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Philippine Social Science Centre, Manila, 23-26 July.

• ‘War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan’, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, University of Melbourne, 7-10 July and Asian Studies Association of Australia 17th Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 1-3 July.

Book Reviews

Loh Kah Seng

• ‘Review of National Archives of Singapore “Memories and Reflections: The Singapore Experience: Documenting a Nation’s History Through Oral History. 2nd edition”’. s/pores. 8 February 2008.
• ‘Review of Calvin Low. “10-Stories: Queenstown Through the Years”’, Citizen Historian. 1 January 2008.
• ‘Review of Nicholas Tarling. “Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To Foster the Political Will”’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 39 (1), February: 179-180.

Ian Scott

• ‘Review of Ma Ngok, "Political Development in Hong Kong: State, Political Society and Civil Society"’, China Journal, 59, January: 189-191.
• ‘Review of Steve Tsang,"Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China 1862-1997"’, The China Quarterly, 195, September: 706-707.

• ‘Review of Rotem Kowner (ed.) “The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War”’, Journal of Japanese Studies, 34(2), Summer.
• ‘Review of Kevin Doak, “A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People”, Japanese Studies, 28(1), May: 120-22.

Other Publications

• Learning from Comparative Experience: Public Administration Reform in Post-Conflict States, Cambodia and Timor-Leste Case Studies, World Bank.
• Accountability Provisions in the Organic Law on Subnational Government in Cambodia, DFID. (with Nick Devas)

• ‘Governing the Ungovernable: dealing with the rise of informal security in Indonesia’, Asia Research Centre Policy Brief No.1, http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/pb1.pdf, (with Adrianus Meliala)

Sandra Wilson

• ‘Manchurian Incident’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols
• ‘Russo-Japanese War’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols
• ‘Nationalism: East Asia’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols