Scott Burchill is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Australian and International Studies. His research interests include the theory of International Relations, international political economy and Australian foreign policy. He is a regular commentator on international affairs for ABC Radio and Television.
1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just…
new Australian Defence White Paper, another significant parliamentary report quietly entered the public domain. The Australian Senate Committee enquiry into Australia’s East…
Scott Burchill In his first lecture on Indonesian soil after being banished for 26 years, Benedict Anderson spoke about the bewildered expression…
Scott Burchill Some just never learn. From the same people who told us that East Timor should not and would not become…
Scott Burchill In the first weeks of September last year, 70% of all public buildings and private residences in East Timor were…
Scott Burchill In societies which like to call themselves free and open, liberty is usually defined in contrasting terms. State propaganda and…
Scott Burchill Sometimes statistics tell a grim tale. In the first weeks of September this year, 70% of all public buildings and…
Scott Burchill In the 1850s, Karl Marx believed that the spread of capitalism, or what today we would call globalization, was…
"To think that we, for many years, lived along side a dictatorship and from Monday’s election we’ll be living alongside the world’s…
The arrest of Care Australia’s Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace by Serb authorities exposes more than the risks faced by aid workers…
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