Blogs, lectures, newspaper articles, etc.

In Memoriam: Professor Andrew Linklater (8 March 1949 – 5 March 2023), Review of International Studies (April 2023). This was a difficult piece to write since Andrew had been an undergraduate lecturer of mine and a mentor and friend.

Editor’s selection on Intellectual History, Review of International Studies, 2022. Whilst co-editor of the journal I was asked to put together a collection of articles published by the Review on a specific topic or theme. I chose to collect a group of articles on intellectual history or the history of international thought.

‘Historicizing Liberalism and Empire: On Duncan Bell’s Reordering the World‘, The Disorder of Things, 14 Aug 2017. My contribution to a forum on Duncan Bell’s excellent book.

‘A Tribute to Robert Cox’, curated by Shannon Brincat for Progress in Political Economy (PPE), Nov 2018. On the sad occasion of Robert Cox’s passing, Shannon asked me and a number of other IR scholars for reflections on the man and scholar. Published on Adam David Morton’s Progress in Political Economy (PPE) website.

My Introduction to a symposium on Machiavelli and the Virtues of The Prince: 500 Years of Reception and Influence hosted by the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland, 20-21 June 2013.

‘Hyperpower America rewrites the global rules’, The Age, 9 Dec 2002. Another old piece, this time about the US response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Its resort to unilateralism and exceptionalism, I argued, represented a threat to the rule of international order.

‘Blind to their Armbands’, The Age 6 March 2002. An old piece I wrote about the so-called ‘history wars’, part of the broader ‘culture wars’ that continue inflame debate in Australia. I accuse conservatives, such as the then-PM John Howard, of wearing a ‘white blindfold’ that prevents them seeing or recognizing Australia’s violent past as a settler-colonial state.