James L. Richardson

Bio: James L. Richardson is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: International relations & Foreign policy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 30 publications receiving 367 citations. Previous affiliations of James L. Richardson include University of Sydney & Balliol College.

Paul Kennedy and international relations theory: A comparison with Robert Gilpin

Abstract: (1991) Paul Kennedy and international relations theory: A comparison with Robert Gilpin Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol 45, No 1, pp 70-77

Australian Strategic Perspectives

Abstract: The three and one-half years since President Johnson's decision to de-escalate the Vietnam war in March 1968 have seen a remarkable transformation in the climate of thinking in Australia on issues of national security. As recently as October 1969 the then minister for external affairs, Gordon Freeth, lost his parliamentary seat owing, it was generally believed, to his having played down in a major speech the \"threat\" of the Soviet navy in the Indian Ocean, a speech which provoked a strong reaction from the Democratic Labor party (DLP). Today the DLP grudgingly accepts even the volte-face in the government's China policy as it responds to the era of ping-pong diplomacy by announcing its desire to enter into normal relations with the People's Republic. The change has been somewhat masked by the tendency of the party political debate to continue along well-worn grooves, dominated by Vietnam and for a time by the controversy over maintaining an Australian military presence in Malaysia-Singapore, which the government sought to present as a choice between regional involvement and isolation. Thanks to Vietnam, Australia's remoteness, and the governing coalition's success in profiting from an unchanging image of the international scene, an unreconstructed cold-war frame of reference survived in Australia for longer than elsewhere in the western world; if indeed the pressure of events has finally induced the government to abandon it, the ready acquiescence of its supporters suggests the large part that political convenience rather than conviction has played in its survival. However, if one framework has been undermined, there is at

History strikes back: The state of international relations theory

Abstract: Jack Snyder, Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991) pp.330. $US16.45 ISBN 0 8014 9764 7.

New insights on international crises

Abstract: International Crisis Behavior Series, edited by Michael Brecher, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. Vol. 1. Michael Brecher, with Benjamin Geist, Decisions in Crisis: Israel, 1967 and 1973, 1980. Vol. 2. Avi Shlaim, The United States and the Berlin Blockade, 1948-1949: A Study in Crisis Decision-Making, 1983. Vol. 3. Alan Dowty, Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973, 1984. Vol. 4. Karen Dawisha, The Kremlin and the Prague Spring: Decisions in Crisis, 1984. Vol. 5. Geoffrey Jukes, Hitler's Stalingrad Decisions, 1985.

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

Abstract: Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1

Power in global governance

Abstract: 1. Power and global governance Michael N. Barnett and Raymond Duvall 2. Power, institutions, and the production of inequality Andrew Hurrell 3. Policing and global governance Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes 4. Power, fairness and the global economy Ethan Kapstein 5. Power politics and the institutionalization of international relations Lloyd Gruber 6. Power, nested governance, and the WTO: a comparative institutional approach Greg Shaffer 7. The power of liberal international organizations Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore 8. The power of interpretive communities Ian Johnstone 9. Class powers and the politics of global governance Mark Rupert 10. Global civil society and global governmentality: or, the search for the political and the state amidst capillaries of power Ronnie Lipschutz 11. Governing the innocent? The 'civilian' in international law Helen Kinsella 12. Colonial and postcolonial global governance Himadeep Muppidi 13. Knowledge in power: the epistemic construction of global governance Emanuel Adler and Steven Bernstein.

Constructing national interests

Abstract: While the concept of `the national interest' has long been central to theories of international politics, its analytical usefulness has also been seriously challenged. I argue that, to be useful in accounting for state action, this concept should be reconceptualized in constructivist terms. I begin with a brief discussion of the conventional, realist notion of the national interest, lodging two criticisms against it. Then, starting from Wendt's recent constructivist interventions, I provide a constructivist reconceputalization of `the national interest'. I argue that national interests are produced in the construction, through the dual mechanisms of articulation and interpellation, of representations of international politics. This process of national interest construction is illustrated with a sketch of the production of the US national interest during the so-called `Cuban missile crisis'.

Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order

Abstract: The presence of Great Powers and outlaw states is a central but under-explored feature of international society. In this book, Gerry Simpson describes the ways in which an international legal order based on 'sovereign equality' has accommodated the Great Powers and regulated outlaw states since the beginning of the nineteenth-century. In doing so, the author offers a fresh understanding of sovereignty which he terms juridical sovereignty to show how international law has managed the interplay of three languages: the languages of Great Power prerogative, the language of outlawry (or anti-pluralism) and the language of sovereign equality. The co-existence and interaction of these three languages is traced through a number of moments of institutional transformation in the global order from the Congress of Vienna to the 'war on terrorism'. Relevance to contemporary political crises involving major powers and rogue states A rare historical study of international law Historical and legal analysis of wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan