Edition 1
Insecurity in the New World Order
- Published 2nd September, 2003
- ISBN: 9780733313318
- Extent: 160 pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm)
The first issue of Griffith REVIEW is a unique collection of reportage, analysis, memoir, photography, fiction and poetry.
Essays by leading writers and thinkers explore what the new world order may mean for Australia and expose sources of fear and insecurity.
Writers include: John Birmingham, Norman Swan, Frank Moorhouse, Pat Weller, Geraldine Doogue, Chalmers Johnson, Irris Makler, Graeme Dobelle, Allan Gyngell, Michael McKernan, William Tow, Adrian Vickers, Charles Firth, Eva Sallis, Margaret Coffey, mtc cronin and Andrew Belk.
In this Edition
What rough beast
BEN BUCKLER IS one of those secret places you can find in any large city, a space within a space, with its own microclimate and way of life. Three streets on a headland at the north end of Bondi Beach; it is bounded by...
Road maps without stories
LAST YEAR, I walked through the ruins of a Crusader church high on a hill in Palestine. A fire had burned outside this church as one link in the great chain of fire that signalled Jerusalem had been won from Muslim control. Thanks to...
Diplomatic compliance
IN SEPTEMBER 2000, the cadaver of Australia's great foreign policy tragedy of the past quarter century was laid out in the Mural Hall, at the centre of the Australian Parliament. The 724-page book of diplomatic cables told the story of a strong prime minister...
How to become a superpower in three easy steps
IN THE POST-SEPTEMBER 11 world, many middle-ranking countries are starting to ask the question: 'If the United States can be a superpower, why can't I?' This is a very good question. The ease with which the US now exercises power should be an inspiration...
Death of dualism?
BACK IN 1988, I was working on the Soviet Union in Australia's national intelligence-analysis organisation, the Office of National Assessments (ONA). After a decade-long caravan of the comatose and the incompetent through the Kremlin's key positions, the field of Sovietology had been glavanised by...
Sorrows of empire
WITH THE FALL of Baghdad, America's dutiful Anglophone allies – the British and Australians – are due for their just rewards: luncheons for Blair and Howard with the Boy Emperor at his 'ranch' in Crawford, Texas. The Americans fielded an army of 255,000 in...
Ali Baba and the forty thieves
'WATCH OUT – ALI Baba!' the taxi driver says as we pass the burnt-out Information Ministry in Baghdad. 'Ali Baba' is the evocative local slang for looters, and the ministry and the utterly destroyed shopping centre opposite are both crawling with thieves.We are heading...
Missing in action
IT WAS ASKING a lot of a man that he pursue a military career in Australia between 1918 and 1939. Poor pay, low status, few promotional opportunities and little community esteem were only some of the problems with such a career. Perhaps the high...
World order dreaming: a guide to conversations about the United Nations
Perpetual Peace ... philosophers who dream this sweet dream ...– Immanuel Kant Soon war will simply be one chemist approaching another chemist at the border, each carrying a deadly phial.– Oscar Wilde THE MOST POTENT, confusing and mythical concept in contemporary politics is that of 'The UN'....
A ride in a taxi
'These incompatible misfits who were smuggled into Australia should all be kicked out ... Thank God for the Howard Government. Better you show some loyalty to fellow Australians instead of these illegal criminals, and that's what they are, pure and simple.I pay significant taxes...
Lower the alarm (We’ve been here before)
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE a good plague to get the blood moving. When you look at plagues past it is hard to escape the conclusion that there is a hard-wired human response: fear and blame, dread and outrage. Plagues have been a recurring event since the...
Reconciling theory and policy
THE WORLD HAS changed, provoking heated discussion among international relations observers. The contending theories may seem obscure but the ideas that flow from academic conferences and learned journals represent one of the few systematic attempts to make sense of the new 'world order', which...
A paradise bombed
JUST AFTER THE Bali bombings of October 12, 2002, a colleague asked one of those curly questions academics sometimes get asked in seminars: 'Has Bali's place in the Indonesian imagination now changed; is it like New York in the United States after September 11,...
Capitalism in conference or democratic gridlock?
THE WORLD TRADE Organisation (WTO) suddenly gained notoriety in Seattle in 1999 when demonstrations against it appeared on every television screen: in the sitting rooms of the rich, the lobbies of global corporations and the crowded slums of the poor. The WTO was a...
Featured Contributors
Eva Hornung
Eva Hornung is a novelist who lives in rural South Australia. Her novel The Last Garden (Text, 2017) was...
Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Doogue is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster with a distinguished career in news and current affairs.She is...
Norman Swan
Producer and presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio, Dr Norman Swan, is a multi-award winning producer and broadcaster.Dr Swan's...
John Birmingham
John Birmingham is the author of the cult classic He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, the award-winning history Leviathan,...
