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Online Conference Publications for OCIS 2008

All OCIS 2008 conference papers accepted through the refereeing process are published below.

OCIS 2008 papers accepted for the conference and for online publication also have the potential to be published as part of a special OCIS issue of the journal 'Global Change, Peace and Security' scheduled for Vol 21 issue 1, 2009. For information about the Journal please click here.

Barr, Michael D and Anantha Raman Govindasamy. Hegemony without conversion: religious nationalism in modern Malaysia

Brincat, Shannon. Towards a Dialectic for World Politics

Buchan, Bruce. The Subject of War, From Salamanca to Sydney Cove        

Clapton, William. Risk and Hierarchy in International Society

Colman, Diane. Identity Politics and Institutionalised Instability - The political economy of nationalism

Cox, Lloyd. Knowing What We Now Know: Truth, Lies and WMDs Five Years Later

di Piramo, Daniela. “Speak for Me”: Populist Leadership in Latin America and the Mirage of Horizontal Politics

Fitzpatrick, John. The Atlantic Peace: European expansion overseas and the international system/international society dialectic

Gale, Fred. Global Democratic Corporatism: Earth Governance Beyond States

Goldstone, Alan. John Stuart Mill on International Legitimacy

Griffiths, Martin and Ichie Asakura. Assessing Japan’s Nuclear Allergy: Domestic Constraints and International Drivers

Habib, Ben. Climate Change and the Terminal Decay of the North Korean Regime

Hawksley, Charles. "Rudd’s Way": — The ALP in Government and its policies toward the South Pacific

Hoadley, Stephen. The European Union, the Pacific Islands, and Fiji: Diplomacy, Trade, and Democracy Promotion

Humphreys, Andrew. Malaysia’s Post-9/11 Security Approach

Hundt, David. The Rise of China and South Korea: Sunshine and Beyond

Isakhan, Benjamin. Democracy Building in Post-Saddam Iraq: ‘Historical Memory’ and ‘Primitive Democracy’

Jiang, Yang. Anchored Ambitions: China’s Free Trade Agreements and Domestic Constraints

Leaver, Richard. US Decline, Once More?

Lee, Lavina. Pre-emption and the legitimacy of US Hegemony

Lockyer, Adam. Foreign Intervention and Belligerents’ Capabilities in Civil War

Mckibbin, Rory. Australian policy in Papua New Guinea: reconciling benign neglect and the new security agenda

Merviö, Mika. Social justice and the issue of environmental awareness in Northeast Asia: theory and practice

Moses, Jeremy and Tadashi Iwami. From liberalisation to militarisation: The ‘civilising’ of Japan and the end of the pacifist experiment

O'Keefe, Michael. Charting the Course of the AIDS Epidemic in the South Pacific

Porter, Jessica. The Responsibility to Protect: A Normative Analysis

Schleussinger, Fiona. Refugees and a Global Cosmopolitan Democracy – Empowerment or Political Aspiration?

Simpson, Adam. Environmental activism within a transnational NGO: bridging the North-South divide

Slaughter, Steven. Institutionalising Cosmopolitan Responsibilities to the Global Poor: Institutional Cosmopolitanism, Human Rights and the State

Tan, Matthew. Liturgical Worship and the Transformation of International Political Community

Tanji, Miyume. The importance of the Dugong case: constructivist implications of US base relocations in Okinawa for the Asia-Pacific ‘security communities’

Totman, Sally and Mat Hardy. The Rise and Decline of Libya as a Rogue State.

Tyson, Paul. A post-secular approach to understanding religion and global security

Vale, Peter. Migration, Xenophobia and the Culture of Residual Insecurity in South Africa 

Vale, Peter. Six Doodles on the Sociology of South African International Relations

Vlcek, William. From Road Town (BVI) to Shanghai: FDI, IBCs and global capital flows

Zhang, Jian. The Chinese Vision of a ‘Harmonious World’ and East Asian Regionalism