Australia and the United States in the American Century: Essays in International History, Australian Research Institute, Curtin University, 2006, pp. 378
A retrospective collection of 13 essays that examine Australia’s complex relationships with the USA. Part I explores bilateral relations in war and peace. Part II examines bilateral cultural intersections, americanis/zation and the exercise of America’s global power, both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’. These essays are available here, without payment.
Unequal Allies: Australian-American Relations and the Pacific War, Melbourne University Press, 1977, pp.278
Based on exhaustive, archival research in Washington, London and Canberra this highly original work explodes the myth of a ‘special bilateral relationship’ forged in the dark days of war against Japan. It argues that the so-called war-time embrace of Australia’s ‘new protector’ was neither unconditional nor enduring. Canberra’s dependent relationship with Washington symbolised by ANZUS reflected the exigencies of the Cold War in Asia rather than the legacies of a difficult war-time alliance
Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics, University of Hawaii Press, 1984 and 2018, pp. 377
The first scholarly account of Hawaii’s incorporation as the fiftieth state of the USA. It is a story of struggle and accommodation, of how the uniquely multicultural territory was absorbed into the economic, ideological and political fabric of mainland America. Remains the standard interpretation of the long struggle over Hawaii’s post-colonial incorporation into the American body politic. This book is available here for viewing or download at no cost from the University of Hawaii Press.
Implicated: The United States in Australia (with Philip Bell), Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 220
A pioneering study, it examines the involvement of the United States in Australia’s economic, political and cultural history. It argues that America has not simply imposed on Australia a version of itself nor made it a dependent Americanised satellite, rather, America is (and has been since well before Federation) an ambiguous model for Australia, a promise as well as a threat
Implicated: Americanising Australia (with Philip Bell), Network, 2007, pp. 271
A revised edition of Implicated, above. Despite the ‘decline’ of America and the ‘end’ of the Cold War, US power and influences continue to shape Australian foreign relations, politics, media and culture. Explores the ways by which Australia negotiated strategic alliances, economic accommodations and cultural meanings as both societies travelled the path of modernisation.
Multicultural Societies, Sable, 1987, pp. 188
Emphasising comparative study of post-colonial societies – Australia, the USA, Brazil, South Africa and Aotearoa New Zealand, this pioneering book provides a scholarly introduction to the study of ‘race’, immigration and ethnicity in settler societies
Americanization and Australia, (ed., with Philip Bell), UNSW Press, 1998, pp. 282 Rather than emphasizing American hegemony and Australian vulnerability, this multidisciplinary collection of essays emphasizes the negotiation of ‘soft power’ as central to understanding so-called americanization abroad. Subjects include Australian English (Pam Peters), Popular Culture (Richard Waterhouse), Feminisms (Catharine Lumby), Art (Terry Smith), Television (Philip Bell), Virtual Empire (McKenzie Wark).
Negotiating the Pacific Century, ed., Allen & Unwin, 1996, pp. 324
Focused on the 1990s, this collection of essays by leading Australian and American scholars, explores how Australia’s anxious quest for integration into the ‘new Asia’, was complicated in virtually every field by its deep historical linkages to American power and interests after WWII.
Conflict in the Pacific, 1937-1951 (with Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon), Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 235
Broad, detailed and research-based, it explores the origins, conduct and consequences of WWII in the Asia-Pacific from Japan’s initial expansion into Manchuria in 1931 and peace settlement in 1951. Discusses major hisoriographical issues and competing interpretations of key aspects of the vast international conflict.
Impacts: Contemporary Issues and Global Problems (with Ralph Hall), Jacaranda Press, 1991, pp. 374
Designed for high school and undergraduate students, it discusses pivotal issues in late twentieth century Australia including, the environment, the media, prejudice, international conflict and inequality both local and global.
Other published works
‘The United States and its ANZUS Allies, 1941-2018’, 2018
Access this article here: The United States and its ANZUS Allies, 1941-2018
Extreme Allies: Australian American Relations in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001’, in Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, John Ravenhill and James Cotton, eds., Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 23-52‘. Access this article here: Extreme Allies: Australian American Relations in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001
American/Global: Australian/Local’, with P. Bell, Straddling Borders: The American Resonance in Transnational Identities, VU University Press, Amsterdam, 2004
‘Cultural Crossroads and Global Frontiers: New Directions in US Diplomatic History’, Australasian Journal of American Studies, 21:1, July 2002
‘Cultural Shifts, Changing Relationships: Australia and the US’, Through Depression and War: Australia and the United States, Fulbright Symposium 2001, ed. with Peter Bastian, Fulbright/ANZASA, Sydney, 2002
‘Between History and Geography: Australian Ambivalence and Pacific Asia’, abstract in Changing Approaches to the Pacific World’, Proceedings, 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, 2000
with Sean Brawley, ‘Review Essay: Debates on Australia and Asia’, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 31:1, March 1999
with Philip Bell ‘The Dilemmas of “Americanization”’, Philip Bell and Roger Bell, eds., Americanization and Australia, Sydney, UNSW Press, 1998
with Philip Bell, ‘‘Race’/Ethnicity’ eds., Americanization and Australia, Sydney, UNSW Press, 1998
‘The Political Dimension‘, in William T. Tow, ed., Australian-American Relations: Looking Toward the Next Century, St. Lucia, University of Queensland, 1998
‘Ambivalent Regionalism: The United States and APEC’, in John Ingleson, ed., Regionalism, Subregionalism and APEC, Monash Asia Institute, 1997
‘Reassessed: Australia’s relationship with the United States’, in James Cotton and John Ravenhill, eds., Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs, 1991-1995, Melbourne, Oxford University Press with AIIA, 1997
‘Anticipating the Pacific Century?: Australian Responses to Realignments in the Asia-Pacific’ in Mark T. Berger and Douglas A. Borer, eds., The Rise of East Asia: Critical Visions of the Pacific Century, London, Routledge, 1997
‘Reassessed: Australia’s relationship with the United States’, in James Cotton and John Ravenhill, eds., Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs, 1991-1995, Melbourne, Oxford University Press with AIIA, 1997
‘Ambivalent Regionalism: The United States and APEC’, in John Ingleson, ed., Regionalism, Subregionalism and APEC, Melbourne, Monash Asia Institute, 1997
with Philip Bell ‘“Americanization”: Political and Cultural Examples from the Perspective of “Americanized” Australia’, American Studies, 37:1, Spring, 1996
with T. MacDonald and A. Tidwell, ‘Australian-US Relationships: Future Directions?, in R. Bell, T. MacDonald and A. Tidwell, eds., Negotiating the Pacific Century: The ‘New’ Asia, the United States and Australia, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1996
‘Australian-US Relations and the Transformation of the Asia-Pacific Region’, in R. Bell, T. MacDonald and A. Tidwell, eds., Negotiating the Pacific Century: The ‘New’ Asia, the United States and Australia, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1996
‘Bilateral Relations: A New Regional Context’, in R. Bell, T MacDonald and A Tidwell, eds., Negotiating the Pacific Century: The ‘New’ Asia, the United States and Australia, Sydney, Allen and Unwin
‘Managing Diversity: Multicultural Australia, the United States and Asia’, in International House of Japan, Multiculturalism in the USA and the Asia-Pacific, Tokyo, 1996
with Philip Bell, ‘The ‘Americanisation’ of Australia: Rethinking Post-War Economic and Cultural Relations’, Journal of International Communication, 2:1, June 1995
‘The Debate Over American Decline in the late Twentieth Century’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 45:1; May 1991
‘The American Influence’, in Under New Heavens: The Transmission of Culture and The Making of Australia, in Neville Meaney, ed., Port Melbourne, Heinemann Educational Australia, 1989
‘War and Society’, in R.F Hall and L. Scott eds., Global Issues, Milton, Qld., Jacaranda-Wiley, 1987
‘International and Regional Institutions’, in R.F. Hall and L. Scott eds., Global Issues, Milton, Qld., Jacaranda-Wiley, 1987
‘Minorities, Ethnicity and Prejudice’ in R.F. Hall and L. Scott eds., Global Issues, Milton, Qld., Jacaranda-Wiley, 1987
‘Major Trends in the Study of Intergroup Relations in Multicultural Societies’, in Roger Bell ed., Multicultural Societies: A Comparative Reader, Sydney, Sable, 1987
‘Political Violence and Unresolved Conflicts’, in Jeanette P. Maas and Robert A.C. Stewart eds., Towards Worlds of Peace, Suva, University of South Pacific Press, 1986
‘Political Violence and Modern Government’, Current Affairs Bulletin, 62:6, November, 1985
‘The South and Hawaii: A Neglected Civil Rights Issue’, Australasian Journal of American Studies, 3:1, July, 1984
‘Testing the Open Door Thesis in Australia’, Pacific Historical Review, LI:3, August 1982, (This article was awarded the Louis Knott Koontz Prize by the American Historical Association)
‘Problems in Australian Foreign Policy’, July-December 1979, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 26:1, 1980
‘Australian-American Disagreement Over the Peace Settlement with Japan, 1944-1946’, Australian Outlook (Journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs), 30, August, 1976
‘Australian-American Relations and Reciprocal Wartime Economic Assistance, 1941-46: An Ambivalent Association’, Australian Economic History Review, 16, March, 1976
‘Australian-American Discord: Negotiations for Post-War Bases and Security Arrangements in the Pacific, 1944-1946’, Australian Outlook (Journal of the Australian Institute of Internal Affairs), 27, April, 1975