Whispers from the Bush: The Workplace Sexual Harassment of Australian Rural Women

Whispers from the Bush: The Workplace Sexual Harassment of Australian Rural Women. By Skye Saunders (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2015), pp. xviii +220. Foreword by David Morrison. Bibliography, Appendices, Index. ISBN 9781760020385. AU$59.95 (pb).     

"布什主义"的走向与中美关系

布什政府外交政策的核心是以单边主义、“政权更迭”和先发制人式预防战争为特征的“布什主义”,其目的是追求美国的绝对军事优势和美利坚帝国。本文在对“布什主义”的实质,产生的学理背景和社会根源,以及其内在的矛盾和外部的阻力进行分析的基础上,推测未来几年美国外交政策走向和对中美关系的可能影响。本文认为,布什的美国远比一个新兴的崛起大国更加危险,但“布什主义”的内在矛盾、美国有限的资源和国内政治制度决定了它的前途并不看好。“布什主义”对中美关系影响有限,美国已开始接受中国崛起的事实,并试图通过接触,适应日益崛起的中国,保证其对华政策有双重保险。     

"布什主义"与美国新保守主义

“布什主义”以先发制人、政权变更、单边主义和追求仁慈的霸权的外交政策为标志,其思想基础是美国新保守主义。九一一恐怖主义袭击使布什接受了新保守主义,把它当作对付恐怖主义这一新威胁的新方法,而新保守主义者则通过他们在布什政府中同“美国民族主义者”和基督教右翼组成的鹰派联盟来影响布什政府的外交政策。新保守主义者同传统保守主义者一样,信奉美国的两个基本意识形态:美国例外论和古典自由主义。他们提倡美国使用武力来追求其理想和利益。然而,“布什主义”及其新保守主义理念所存在的问题使“布什主义”的最终破产成为不可避免。随着美国伊拉克战争的困境加剧,新保守主义同“布什主义”一起经历了由盛到衰的过程。     

The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the "Liberal" Tradition and Australian Foreign Policy

This article surveys some of the key contributions to the secondary literature on Australia's foreign and defence policy during Robert Gordon Menzies' two prime ministerships (1939–41, 1949–66), and seeks to identify Menzies' place in a "Liberal" and Liberal Party tradition through a reading of this work. Via a study of Menzies' imperialism, British race patriotism, nationalism, and attitudes towards Asia and the United States of America, it argues that the prime minister stands in an ambiguous relationship to the transformation that occurred in Australia's international orientation between the 1930s and 1960s. In the 1950s the Australian government's cold war foreign policy, and the political language that Menzies used in private and public to articulate it, were largely successful in balancing the competing claims of Britishness, Australianness and the newly-formed "American Alliance". By the early 1960s, however, his nostalgia for a dissolving imperial order was sufficiently pronounced that it contributed powerfully to a symbolic and rhetorical defeat for his side of politics, allowing Labor to claim the mantle of Australian foreign policy modernity.     

The Mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and "New Nationalism"

Gough Whitlam's decision in 1974 to appear in Barry Humphries's film about a larrikin abroad, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own , marks a potent moment in Australia's post-imperial history — a moment when the politics of Australian theatre and the theatre of Australian politics directly coincided. In their different spheres, Humphries and Whitlam dramatised the waning British connection felt by Australians. Whitlam's own version of "new nationalism" was brash and confident enough to embrace the eccentricities and vulgarities of Humphries's satire. Yet Whitlam's "new nationalism", like Humphries's satire, was highly ambivalent. Humphries's first film, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie , was a direct product of the new nationalist enthusiasm that had brought Whitlam to power. Although it was savaged by the critics, the film was a box-office success. Intellectuals such as Patrick White, Manning Clark and Geoffrey Dutton lavished praise on Humphries and his satirical portrayal of Australian anxieties about culture and national identity. Humphries portrayed the underlying dilemma that Whitlam faced in refashioning the image of modern Australia: how to throw off the symbols of colonialism and find meaningful symbols to replace them. In the process, both the politician and the humourist rediscovered a particular and enduring affection for the mother country.     

Defending "The Purity of Home Life" Against Socialism: The Founding Years of the Australian Women's National League

The paradigm of maternal citizenship has been variously understood by historians as enabling and restrictive of women's action in the public sphere. This paper considers the use to which the maternal paradigm was put by the founders of the Australian Women's National League, focussing in particular upon their campaign to link the Labor party with socialism and "free love". It observes the ease with which the ideal of the maternal citizen — central to the liberal feminism of the day — could be turned to the conservative class interests of elite women.     

Evaluating The Bush Menu for Change in the Middle East

These contributions were presented at a roundtable of the Conference Group on the Middle East, "Evaluating the Bush Menu for Change in the Middle East," at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 5, 2004.     

Securing the Homelands: Transatlantic Co-operation after Bush

Since 9/11, internal security co-operation has grown into a major feature of transatlantic relations. This article seeks to appraise both the achievements of the Bush administration in this field and the prospects for President Obama's period of office. Homeland security has been a new and difficult area of co-operation to foster, yet both sides of the Atlantic have come to recognise their shared interests in working together. The article cautions those European policy-makers who are hoping for a major change in homeland security co-operation under the new president. It is likely that the policies of the new administration will be characterised more by continuity than by change.     

"Never Hitherto Seen Outside of a Zoo or a Menagerie": The Language of Australian Politics

Since the early 1980s, "linguistic" and "cultural" influences have shaped the study of history and the broader social sciences worldwide. In Australia these influences have developed more slowly than in comparable countries such as Great Britain or the United States. Yet the colourful language and "culture wars" of Australian politics have long been key ingredients of political history's appeal in and outside of the academy. Many practitioners perceive that the so-called "turns" constitute a threat to the study of political history. This article contends that, on the contrary, they have enlivened historiographical concerns.     

State Socialism in Australian Political Thought: A Reconsideration

In understanding the origins of conventional tenets in political thought, we should attend to cross‐spectrum analysis of usage. Taking state socialism as an instance, this paper argues that the practice of treating it historically either as an element within a radical tradition (by Labour historians) or as a discredited part of a socialist agenda (by liberals) ignores the ways in which it was it was deployed across the political spectrum. Outsiders (such as the Webbs and Métin) skewed the record, describing the pragmatic accommodations they saw as “socialism without doctrines”, unconscious of the debates amongst Australian political elites. We need to explore anew where ideas came from, how they were taken up and adapted in the Australian context (by all sides) and the circumstances that determined their duration within everyday discourse.     

"Real Solemn History" and its Discontents: Australian Political History and the Challenge of Social History

The relationship between Australian political and social history has received little historiographical attention. Political history has been lauded or, more often, dismissed as traditional historical practice, while from the 1960s social history took its place as a catch-all phrase for various "new" histories concerned with everyday life. This article examines the place of political and social history in the nascent Australian academic historical profession of the 1950s to the early 1970s, and then explores the impact of the new social history on academic political history. It will suggest that while there was only limited exchange before the late 1980s, in the last twenty years social history has contributed modestly to a reconstituted understanding of political history as part of lived experience.
"[…] I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels. But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?"
"Yes, I am fond of history."
"I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention […]". ¹     

不确定的前景:布什政府军控政策展望

布什政府的军控政策仍在制定之中,并将受到三个因素的影响一是美国已经开始的全面战略评估的结果;二是布什政府同其他相关国家谈判、磋商的结果;三是布什能否在国会获得两党对其军控政策的支持.这三个因素将很大程度上塑造布什政府未来四年的军控政策.美俄有关<反导条约>和NMD的谈判可能会出现三种结果一种是美国不修改<反导条约>、不部署NMD,军控机制不会遭受破坏;一种是美俄达不成妥协,美国退出<反导条约>、部署NMD,军控机制崩溃;最后一种是美俄能够在修约和部署导弹防御系统的问题上达成妥协,军控机制受到损害,但不至于崩溃.