Journal Articles

The Logic of Interoperability: Australia's Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

30 April 2013

Although Australia has sent its own forces to fight alongside the US in every major American conflict since the Great War, it worries that this level of loyalty might not always be reciprocated. Australia has therefore maintained a position of self-reliance in all of its defence decisions. Using the F-35 program as an example, Dr Adam Lockyer argues that this logic of interoperability is becoming increasingly untenable. Read article

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Can Nations Succeed?

3 April 2013

Professor Margaret Levi writes that we are in an era of Big Books, books with a magisterial sweep of the history of the world. All share the desire to explain why some countries flourish, why some start and stall on the path to development, and why others seem never to find the path at all. In sociology, Big Books date back at least to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Their publication has been more or less regular ever since, and their authors tend to elaborate the sort of grand and general theories that have come under increasing attack in recent decades, given methodological advances that have transformed analytic tastes. Read article

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Foreign Relations in the Gilded Age: A British Free-Trade Conspiracy?

13 March 2013

In this article for Diplomatic History, Dr Marc Palen uncovers the forgotten late-nineteenth-century American free trade movement and the influx of Victorian free trade ideology in the United States, looking particularly at how they controversially reshaped Gilded Age US foreign relations. Read article

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The Civil War's Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy's Diplomacy of Free Trade

26 February 2013

An article by Dr Marc Palen published in the Journal of the Civil War Era. Read article

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Case Note: National Federation of Independent Business v Sibelius

31 January 2013

Dr Harry Melkonian writes on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obama-care) for the Macquarie Law Journal. The article presents an analysis of the various aspects of the Supreme Court decision. Read article

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Domestic political violence and civil war: An introduction

31 January 2013

Professor Margaret Levi provides an introduction to The Annual Review of Political Science's publication of thirteen articles on the problem of Domestic Political Violence and Civil War. Among the enduring questions in political science are the conditions under which domestic political violence and civil wars occur, why they take the forms they do, and how they are ended and peace maintained. Read article

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Book Review: What's fair on the air?

11 December 2012

The Journal of American History: September 2012

Research associate Nicole Hemmer reviews Heather Hendershot's What's Fair on the Air: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest. How has conservative media changed since the days of the 1950s? Read review

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Untapped trilateralism: Common economic and security interests of the European Union, the United States and China

7 November 2012

Collectively, the European Union, China and the United States constitute over half of global GDP. They are the three great engines of the global economy, with a shared population of over 2 billion. In this study, Bates Gill and Andrew Small analyse how the three relate to each other, and make suggestions about the areas where they might best interact more deeply in the future, and in which ways. Read report

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Aligning Rights and Interests: Why, When and How to Uphold Labor Standards

26 October 2012

A background paper for the World Bank's 2012 Report on Good Jobs by Margaret Levi, Christopher Adolph, Daniel Berliner, Aaron Erlich, Anne Greenleaf and Milli Lake. Read report

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Investing in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children, 1972–2007

30 September 2012

Parental spending on children is often presumed to be one of the main ways that parents invest in children and a main reason why children from wealthier households are advantaged. Yet, although research has tracked changes in the other main form of parental investment—namely, time—there is little research on spending. Sabino Kornrich and Frank Furstenberg use data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing particularly on inequality in parental investment in children. Parental spending increased, as did inequality of investment. They also investigated shifts in the composition of spending and linkages to children’s characteristics. Investment in male and female children changed substantially: households with only female children spent significantly less than parents in households with only male children in the early 1970s; but by the 1990s, spending had equalized; and by the late 2000s, girls appeared to enjoy an advantage. Finally, the shape of parental investment over the course of children’s lives changed. Prior to the 1990s, parents spent most on children in their teen years. After the 1990s, however, spending was greatest when children were under the age of 6 and in their mid-20s. Read article

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