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The recent discourse on ‘new antisemitism’ and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict sometime gives the impression that Europe is fundamentally and irredeemably antisemitic. Klug maintains that, while there is a persistent vein of antisemitism in the culture, and while there is evidence of an increase in anti-Jewish attacks since 2000, this perception of Europe is exaggerated. He argues that it is part of a mindset that tends to overstate hostility towards Israel and Jews, or to assume that this hostility is antisemitic, or both. Often this goes along with a tendency to connect antisemitism, via anti-Zionism, with anti-Americanism. Klug believes that notion of a mindset, Klug turns to the question of definition, examining the view that antisemitism is indefinitely mutable. Invoking recent work on the subject, he suggests that at the core of antisemitism is the stock figure of the ‘Jew’. This gives us a criterion with which to judge whether or not a given text—including an attack on Israel or Zionism—is antisemitic. On the basis of the analysis so far, Klug critiques the view that hostility to Israel in general is a new twist on an old antisemitic theme. In this connection, he discussed a 2003 Eurobarometer opinion poll in which 59 per cent of respondents said that Israel is a ‘threat to peace in the world’. Some see this as proof that Europe is antisemitic; Klug rejects this interpretation and traces it back to the mindset he has describing. He argues that people in the grip of this mindset tend to take a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This can lead to ‘antisemitism in reverse’: projecting the figure of the antisemite on to someone who does not fit the bill. Klug concludes that the prospects for the European debate on antisemitism are poor unless it can be disentangled from partisan Middle East politics.     

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A philosophical approach to racism Thomas W. Heilke, Voegelin on the Idea of Race. An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xii + 161pp. Bibl. Ind. £21.50.

British antisemitism under the microscope Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society during the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. ix + 257pp. Notes. Ind. £29.95.

The Jew as scapegoat Yves Chevalier, L'Antisémitisme. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1988. 464pp. Bibl. Ind. 125 FF.

Austrians for Nazism F. Parkinson (ed.), Conquering the Past. Austrian Nazism Yesterday and Today. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. 345pp. Ind. $34.95, $14.90.

The rise of Germany's extreme right Gerhard Paul (ed.), Hitlers Schatten verblaßt—die Normalisierung des Rechtsextremismus (Hitler's Faded Shadow—The Normalization of Rightwing Extremism). Bonn: Dietz, 1989. 231pp. Notes. Tables. Bibl. DM 16.80.

The Nazi affiliations of a great philosopher Victor Farias, Heidegger and Nazism. Trans. from German and French by Paul Burrell and Gabriel R. Ricci. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989. xxii + 349pp. Notes. Ind. £29.95.

Ebensee: death through forced labour Florian Freund, Arbeitslager Zement: Das Konzentrationslager Ebensee und die Raketenrüstung (Industrie, Zwangsarbeit und Konzentrationslager in Österreich vol. 2) Vienna: Verlag für Gesell‐schaftskritik, 1989. 486pp. DM 57.00.

The variety of Latin American Jewry AMILAT (ed.), Judaica Latinoamericana. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1988. 266pp. $27.     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Ethical Organisation: Ethical Theory and Corporate Behaviour ALAN KITSON and ROBERT CAMPBELL Management Ethics: Theory, Cases and Practice GORDON L CLARK and ELIZABETH PRIOR JONSON (eds) Making Groups Work: Rethinking Practice J FENJAMIN, J BESSANT and R WATTS The Capable Executive PAUL H DAINTY and MOREEN ANDERSON Managing Performance and Goal Achievement IAN LEES Productive Diversity: A New Australian Model for Work and Management BILL COPE and MARY KALANTZIS Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration ROBYN ECKERSLEY (ed.) Commercial Implications of Native Title BRYAN HORRIGAN and SIMON YOUNG (eds) Shooting the Banker: Essays on ATSIC and Self-Determination. PATRICK SULLIVAN (Ed.) The End of Politics? Explorations into Modern Antipolitics ANDREAS SCHEDLER (ed.) Socialism in Contemporary Australia TIM BATTIN and GRAHAM MADDOX (eds) Labor Essays 1997: Renewing and Revitalising Labor GARY JUNGWIRTH (ed.) The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945 BARBARA SULLIVAN South Australia, Federalism and Public Policy ANDREW PARKIN (ed.) Korean Public Administration: Managing the Uneven Development BUN WOONG KIM and PAN SUK KIM State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: Lessons from Asia NG CHEE YUEN, NICK FREEMAN and FRANK H HUYNH (eds)     

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Books reviewed in this article:
The Ethics of Economic Rationalism John Wright
Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice Stanley Bach
Parliamentary Privilege Enid Campbell
The Australian Experience of Public Sector Reform: Occasional Paper Two Australian Public Service Commission
Off Course. From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University John Cain and John Hewitt
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard Judith Brett     

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Books reviewed in this article: From White Australia to Woomera: The History of Australian Immigration James Jupp The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia Marian Sawer What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? Greg Barnes Government Reformed: Values and New Political Institutions Ian Holland and Jenny Fleming eds Turning off the Television: Broadcasting's Uncertain Future Jock Given Handbook of Public Administration B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre eds Policy Responses to Social Exclusion: Towards Inclusion? Janie Percy‐Smith ed. Bob Carr: A Self‐Made Man Andrew West and Rachel Morris     

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Messages and Meanings: An Introduction to Semiotics Marcel Danesi, Canadian Scholars' Press Toronto 1994

Australian Popular Culture Ian Craven (ed), Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1994

Identifying Australia in Postmodern Times Livio Dobrez (ed), Bibliotech Canberra 1994

Text and Context Bev Derewianka & Louise Ravelli (EDGA 976) PAGE SBS University of Wollongong 1995     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Profiles of Government Administration in Asia JOHN HALLIGAN and MARK TURNER for the Australian Public Service Commission (Canberra, AGPS, 1995, 179pp)
Profiles of Government Administration in Asia JOHN HALLIGAN and MARK TURNER for the Australian Public Service Commission (Canberra, AGPS, 1995, 179PP)
Globalization and the ASEAN Public Sector SIRAJUDDIN H SALLEH and LEDIVINA V CARIO (eds) (Kuala Lumpur, Asian and Pacific Development Centre, 1995, 433pp)
The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations B DABSCHECK
Gender, Politics and Citizenship in the 1990s BARBARA SULLIVAN and GILLIAN WHITEHOUSE (eds)
Tunnel Vision: The Failure of Political Imagination JAMES WALTER
Postmodern Public Administration: Towards Discourse CHARLES J. FOX and HUGH T MILLER
Postmodern Revisionings of the Political ANNA YEATMAN
Henry Mayer. Mayer on the Media: Issues and Arguments RODNEY TIFFEN (ed.)     

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The Position of the President in the Finnish Political System
The Norwegian Coalition System     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The General Election and the Formation of Government in Denmark 1971
The Economic Stabilization Programmes and their Political Consequences in Finland, 1967–1970
The 1972 Parliamentary Election in Finland
Norway: Local Elections in the Shadow of the Common Market
Sweden: The First Year of the One-Chamber Riksdag     

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THE ROOTS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD LA TIN AMERICA

G. Pope Atkins, Latin America in the International Political System, second edition. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. 421.)

Lars Schoultz: National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 377.)

Kevin J. Middlebrook and Carlos Rico, eds.: The United States and Latin America in the 1980s (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. Pp. 648. Second printing 1988.)

GENEROSITY AND SELF‐INTEREST

Teresa Odendahl: Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self‐interest among the Philanthropic Elite. (New York: Basic Books, 1990. Pp. 298.)

HOBBES AMONG THE PATRIARCHS

Arnold A. Rogow: Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reaction. (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1986. Pp. 287.)

STRACHEY AND MACLEAN: BRITISH ALTERNA TIVES

Michael Newman: John Strachey. (Manchester: Manchester Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)

B. J. Ripley and J. McHugh: John Maclean. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)     

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Postmodern Revisionings of the Political Anna Yeatman, Routledge London and New York 1994

An Introduction to Semiotics Thomas A. Sebeok, Pinter London 1994

The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus translated by Michael Robertson, Polity Press Cambridge 1994

An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics Suzanne Eggins, Pinter London 1994     

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Politics of the Media Ian Ward, Macmillan Melbourne 1995

Art & Social Structure Robert W Witkin, Polity Press Cambridge 1995

On Meaning‐Making: Essays in Semiotics Mieke Bal, Polebridge Press Sonoma California 1994