Publications
Books
Sacred Violence; Political Religion in a Secular Age in the series Rethinking Political
Violence (London: Palgrave, 2014) forthcoming.
The Political Impossibility of Modern CounterInsurgency (with M. Smith) ( New York:
Columbia University Press, 2014) forthcoming
The New Counterinsurgency Era in Critical Perspective in the series Rethinking Political
Violence (edited with Celeste Ward Gvetner and M. Smith) (London: Palgrave, 2014)
The Rise of China and Asia Pacific Security (with M. Smith and N. Khoo) (Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar, 2013)
Terrorism The Power of Informal Networks (edited with Paul Schulte and Ann Lane)
(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
The Howard Era (edited with Keith Windschuttle) (Sydney: Quadrant Books, 2009)
Regionalism and South East Asia (edited with Lily Yulyadini) (Kuala Lumpur: University of
Malaya Press, 2009)
ASEAN and the International Order in East Asia: Regional Delusion (with M.L.R. Smith)
(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006)
Globalisation and The New Terror: the Asia-Pacific Dimension (editor) (Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar, 2004, paperback 2006)
The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought (London: Palgrave 2001).
Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century English Political Thought (Rochester:
University of Rochester Press 1999).
Political Development in Pacific Asia (Cambridge: Polity Press 1997)
Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia (with D.A. Bell, D. Brown and K. Jayasuriya).
(London: St. Antony’s Oxford/Macmillan/St Martins, 1996.)
Monographs
Beyond Belief: Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism (Australian
Institute, Canberra, September 2007)
Strategic Policy
Between Two Worlds Australian Foreign Policy Responses to New and Old Security
Dilemmas (Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney 2005)
Reinventing Realism: Australian Foreign and Defence Policy at the Millennium (with M
Smith). (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000)
Myths of the Meltdown: The Curious Case of the Developmental State in Pacific Asia
London Defence Studies Series 48. (London: Centre for Defence Studies/ Brasseys 1999)
Articles in Refereed International Journals
Reason, Statecraft and the Art of War: a politique reassessment, Global Discourse,
An interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs September, 2014
Managing the China Dream: Communist Party Politics after the Tiananmen Incident,
Australian Journal of Political Science 49,1, 2014
Deconstructing Counterinsurgency: COIN discourse and the devaluation of strategy
Cambridge Review of International Affairs 8,4, 2013
Myths of the small war tradition: reassessing the discourse of British COIN Small Wars
and Insurgencies 24,3,2013
Ideology, Networks and Political Religion: Structure and Agency in Jemaah Islamiah’s
small world Politics, Religion and Ideology 13,4, 2012
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy Australian Journal of Politics and History 58,4 2012
Menzies’ Asia Policy and the anachronistic fallacy Australian Journal of International
Affairs 66,2 2012
Insurgency and Counter- Insurgency: the problem of strategic deficit, Studies in Conflict
and Terrorism 35, 3 2012
Prudence, Casuistry and Statecraft, Parergon Special Issue, December, 2011
Introduction (edited with Catherine Curtis) Raison d’ Etat, Natural Law and Statecraft in
Early Modern Europe, Parergon, Special Issue, December, 2011
Myth and Misrepresentation in Australian Foreign Policy, Menzies and Asian Engagement,
Journal of Cold War Studies 13,4 (Fall, 2011)
Islamist Terror The view from South East Asia Current Trends in Islamist Ideology Hudson
Institute 12 (Fall 2011)
Milton, Casuistry and the Commonwealth History of Political Thought 32, 2 (Summer 2011)
Engaging or Disengaging Australian foreign policy in the Whitlam era Journal of Cold War
Studies (Fall 2010)
Terror and literature, the novel response to 9/11 Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 33, 10,
(2010)
Technique and Counter Insurgency Journal of Strategic Studies 34,2 (2010)
Whose Hearts and Whose Minds? Global Counter Insurgency theory and its limitations
Journal of Strategic Studies 34,1 2010
Critical Security Studies and the War on Terror Terrorism and Political Violence 32,1
(2010)
We’re all Terrorists Now: Critical -or Hypocritical- Studies ‘on’ Terrorism? Studies in
Conflict and Terrorism 32, 4, (2009)
ASEAN Integration and Regional Security International Security 33, 2 (2008)
Security and Democracy: the ASEAN Charter and the dilemmas of Regionalism in SouthEast Asia International Affairs 84, 4 (2008)
Confused Britannia: Global Uncertainty and Homeland Insecurity Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism 31,6 (2008)
Making Process Not Progress: ASEAN and Regional Order International Security 32, 2
(2007)
Political Change in Southeast Asia 2006 An Overview South East Asian Affairs 2007
ISEAS Singapore (2007)
Pedagogy or Pedantry? A Response to Our Critics. International Affairs 84, 1 (January
2007)
Constructing Communities: ASEAN and East Asian Regional Order Review of
International Studies (January, 2007)
Language and Atrocity The Commentariat and Discourse Failure in Cool Britannia
International Affairs 82, 4 (November 2006)
Tradition, Myth and the Dilemmas of Australian Foreign Policy Australian Journal of
International Affairs 60,1 (March 2006)
Greetings from the Cybercaliphate: Some Notes on Homeland Insecurity International
Affairs 81, 3 (Autumn 2005)
Peace Through Conversation, The National Interest 79, 1 (Spring 2005)
An Edifice of Denial Australia’s Regional Delusions The Round Table 93, 373 (Spring
2004)
Looking for the Pattern: Al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia – the Genealogy of a Terror Network
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 26, 6 (2003)
Out of Bali: Cybercaliphate Rising The National Interest 77, 1 (Spring 2003)
Reinventing Realism- challenging Australia’s foreign policy orthodoxy: a reply to Samuel
Makinda International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 3, 1 (2003)
The Perils of hyper-vigilance: the war on terrorism and the surveillance state in South East
Asia Intelligence and National Security 17, 4 (2002)
From Konfrontasi to Disintegrasi: ASEAN and the rise of terror networks in Southeast
Asia Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 25, 6 (2002)
ASEAN’s Imitation Community, Orbis - A Journal of World Affairs, 46,1 (Winter 2002).
The Changing Security Agenda in Southeast Asia: Globalization, New Terror and the
Delusions of Regionalism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 25, 3 (July 2002).
Cunning, Silence, Exile: Mid-nineteenth century Welsh Radicals in Van Dieman’s Land,
Tasmanian Historical Studies 7, 2 (2001)
Is There a Sovietology of Southeast Asian Studies? International Affairs 77, 4 (2001).
Noise but No Signal: Strategy, Culture and the Poverty of Constructivism, Studies in
Conflict and Terrorism, 24,1 (November 2001).
Misreading Menzies, and Whitlam: Reassessing the Ideological construction of Australian
Foreign Policy, Round Table 89, 355 (July 2000).
What Mahathir Has Wrought, The National Interest, 59,1 (Spring 2000).
Advance Australia Anywhere, Orbis - A Journal of World Affairs, 43, 3 (Summer 1999).
Democratization, Civil Society and Middle Class Culture in Contemporary Pacific Asia,
Comparative Politics 30, 1, (January 1998)
Economic Modernization and Political Change in Contemporary Singapore, Humboldt
Journal of Social Relations, 23, 1 (April 1997)
ASEAN, Asian Values and the Security of Southeast Asia in the New World Order,
Contemporary Security Policy, 17, 4 (December 1997).
Asian Values and Constitutional Political Economy, Constitutional Political Economy, 8, 4
(1997)
Postmodernity and Political Science: A Contradiction in Terms, Sojourn, 7, 1 (1995)
The Middle Class in Asia: Not a Force for Change, The National Interest, 54 1 (Winter
1995)
Political Development in Singapore and the Myth of the Liberalising Middle Class, The
Pacific Review, 7, 1 (1994)
The Metamorphosis of Tradition: The Idea of Virtue in Asian Political Thought, South East
Asian Journal of Social Science, 21, 1 (1993)
Sir Edward Coke and the Case of Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England, History of
Political Thought Journal, 7, 2 (1986).
Articles in Journals
New Malaysia? The Spectator 23 February 2013
Orwell’s Daughters The Spectator 3 November 2012
Democratic Malaise The Spectator 27 April 2012
Machiavelli’s Canberra The Spectator 3 March 2012
Land of Charm and Cruelty The American Interest July, 2011
Australia’s Malaysian Solution, The Spectator April, 2011
Rise of the Welsh Dragon The Spectator 3 July, 2010
Southeast Asia The Democratic Deficit The World Today Chatham House January, 2009
The Global Election- Malaysia The American Interest Winter 2008
Malaysia’s Difficult Election 2008 Austral Policy Forum 06-16A Nautilus Institute RMIT
Melbourne March 2008
The State of Southeast Asian Studies and Guest Editor Jati 12 University Malaya 2008
‘The Smiling Coup The American Interest Winter 2007
‘Australian Foreign Policy in the twenty first century: the problem of having special friends’
Austral Policy Forum 06-16A 25 May 2006 Nautilus Institute RMIT Melbourne
“The Dragon Stirs” The World Today 61, 7 (July 2005)
“Still Active: Jemaah Islamiyah in South-East Asia” The World Today 59, 10 October 2003
“Dismantling Jemaah Islamiyah” The National Interest online 14th May 2003
“Regional Illusion and its Aftermath” Policy 19 3 (2003)
“Who Knows Spins: The politicization of risk based intelligence” World Defence Systems 7,
2 (Autumn 2004)
“Costly Delusion: the Bali bomb and Australian Policy,” The World Today 59, 1 (January
2003).
“Islamists Defeat Asian Way,” The World Today 58, 6 (June 2002).
”Franchising Terror,” The World Today 57 10 (October 2001).
“Identity Politics in Southeast Asia,” Jane’s Intelligence Review November 2000.
“Tigers Ready to Roar?” The World Today 55 10 (October 1999).
“From Miracle to Nightmare,” The World Today 54 11 (November 1998).
“Can Tigers Change Their Stripes?” The World Today 54 1 (January 1998).
Chapters in Books
International Terrorism entry in M. Juergensmeyer (ed) The Encyclopedia of Global
Studies vol. 3 Sage , California. 2012
The evolution of Australian Intelligence in Loch Johnson (ed) Oxford Handbook of
Intelligence Oxford University Press: Oxford 2010
Towards Relative Decency the Case for Prudence in Don Emmerson (ed.) Hard Choices
Security Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia APARC Stanford University and
Brookings Institute Presses:: Stanford 2008
The Australian Intelligence Community: Change and Continuity in P. Gill, M Urbain (eds.)
PSI Handbook of Global Intelligence 2 vols Praeger: New York 2008
The Rise of China and Australian Foreign Policy in Carl Ungerer (ed.) Australian Foreign
Policy in an Age of Terror UNSW Press: Sydney 2008
Australian Intelligence and the War on Terror in Carl Ungerer (ed.) Australian Foreign
Policy in an Age of Terror UNSW Press:Sydney 2008
The politics of uncertainty and current threats to UK security in Paul Cornish (ed.) Britain
and Security Smith Foundation: London 2007
Democratization, Civil Society and Illiberal Middle Class Culture in Pacific Asia in Howard
J. Wiarda (ed.) Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Politics Routledge : London
2005
“Sir Edward Coke and the case of allegiance,” in Allen D. Boyer (ed.) Law, Liberty, and
Parliament: Selected Essays in the Writings of Sir Edward Coke Liberty Fund: Indianapolis
: 2004
“Southeast Asia and the War against Terrorism: The Rise of Islamism and the Challenge
to the Surveillance State.” In U.Johannen, A. Smith and J. Gomez (eds) September 11
and Political Freedom Asian Perspectives Select Publishing: Singapore: 2002
“Singapore and the myth of the Liberalizing Middle Class,” in G.Rodan (ed.) Singapore
Ashgate: Aldershot 2001
“Asian Models of Democracy,” in B. Clark and J. Foweraker (eds.) Encyclopaedia of
Democratic Thought Routledge: London: 2001
“Globalization, Nationalism and the Deconstruction of UK Inc” in Leo Suryadinata (ed.),
Globalization and Nationalism Freidrich Naumann Stiftung/Times Academic Press:
Singapore, 2000
“Strategic Implications of the Financial Meltdown in the Asia-Pacific,” in Brassey’s Defence
Yearbook 1999 Brassey: London: 1999
“The Politics of Economic Governance,” in D. Goldblatt, J. Mitchell and R. Maidment (eds.)
Governance in the Asia Pacific Routledge/Open University: Milton Keynes; 1998
"The Discourse of the Migrant and the Enigma of Arrival: The Case of the Hong Kong Boat
People," in Chan Kwok Bun (ed.), Crossing Borders: Transmigration in the Asia Pacific
Prentice Hall: Toronto 1995
"The Genealogy of the Teacher," chapter 4 in Stephen Ball (ed.) Michel Foucault and
Education: Disciplines and Knowledge Routledge: London, New York: 1990 (2nd ed. New
York 1992).
"La Genealogia del Professor Urbano," in S. Ball (ed.) Foucault y la educacion Disciplinas
y Saber Ediciones Morata: Madrid:, 1993
"The Discourse of the Urban School and the Formation of a Therapeutic Complex," in P.
Mclaren & J.Giarelli (eds.), Critical Theory and Educational Research SUNY Press: New
York, 1995
“Michel Foucault and the Discourse of Education," co-authored with Professor Stephen
Ball in P.Mclaren & J.Giarelli (eds.) Critical Theory and Educational Research SUNY :New
York: 1995
"Education without Redemption," in T. da Silva (ed.), O sujeto da Educacao: oticas
Foucaultianas (The Subject of Education: Foucauldian Perspectives Artes Medices : Porto
Allegre,1994
Working Papers
China and Political Science: The curious adventure of an unique developmental path. East
Asian Institute Working Papers No 93 Singapore 2002.
Faux Sages d’Orient: The Curious Case of China in European Political Thought. Working
Paper Series No. 7. Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore,
1993