By Emeritus Professor James Cotton

Journal articles

Cotton J, 2025, 'Alan Renouf, Malcolm Booker and "The Department of Foreign Affairs in Crisis" in the Australian Policy World of the 1970s', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2025.2553729

Cotton J, 2025, 'Australia in the International Sphere 1901–1914: An Emerging Foreign Policy Capacity?', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 71, pp. 36 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.13008

Cotton J, 2025, 'The Management of Australia’s External Affairs Issues Under Atlee Hunt, 1901–1916: Implementing Foreign Policy?', Diplomacy and Statecraft, 36, pp. 279 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2025.2495449

Cotton J, 2023, 'Chungking Follies: The supporting cast of the Chungking Legation, 1941-42', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 109, pp. 187 - 209

Cotton J, 2020, ''We are nearer the East than the other states': Frederic Jones of Queensland, the first official from Australia in Shanghai', Queensland Review, 27, pp. 39 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.3

Cotton J, 2020, '‘We are nearer the East than the other states’: Frederic Jones of Queensland, the first official from Australia in Shanghai', Queensland Review, 27, pp. 7 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.3

Cotton J, 2020, 'The Elusive Reginald Benjamin Levien: Victoria's commercial agent in Asia, fraudster, recidivist', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 106, pp. 7 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.191025239965518

Cotton J, 2018, 'Sir Alfred Zimmern lectures Australia, 1938: a utopian on Munich?', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 31, pp. 494 - 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2018.1549020

Cotton J, 2018, 'On the Chatham House project: interwar actors, networks, knowledge', International Politics, 55, pp. 820 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41311-017-0100-6

Cotton J, 2018, 'A century of Wilsonianism: a review essay', Australian Journal of Political Science, 53, pp. 398 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1477916

Cotton J, 2018, 'E.T. Sheaf, Australian ‘trade commissioner in the east’, 1922–25', History Australia, 15, pp. 271 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1439250

Cotton J, 2016, '‘The Standard Work in English on the League’ and Its Authorship: Charles Howard Ellis, an Unlikely Australian Internationalist', History of European Ideas, 42, pp. 1089 - 1104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2016.1182568

Cotton J, 2016, 'The Institute’s seventieth volume: the journal, its origins and its engagement with foreign policy debate', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70, pp. 471 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2016.1167836

Cotton J, 2016, 'Chatham House and Africa c1920–1960: The Limitations of the Curtis Vision', South African Historical Journal, 68, pp. 147 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2016.1182206

Cotton J, 2016, 'An Australia Internationalist Parts Company with the League of Nations: H. Duncan Hall and the Freudian Response to Global Irrationalism', Modern Intellectual History, 13, pp. 653 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1479244314000341

Cotton J, 2015, 'The emergence of international studies in New Zealand', International History Review, 37, pp. 458 - 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2014.933744

Cotton J, 2015, 'William Morris Hughes, Empire and nationalism: The legacy of the First World War', Australian Historical Studies, 46, pp. 100 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2014.995114

Cotton J, 2013, 'Middle powers in the Asia pacific: Korea in Australian comparative perspective', Korea Observer, 44, pp. 593 - 621

Cotton J, 2013, 'Cold War Southeast Asia', JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, 44, pp. 345 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022463413000118

Cotton J, 2013, 'FIVE POWER DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS AT FORTY', PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 86, pp. 386 - 387, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000320210400014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Cotton J, 2013, 'Rejoinder to 'Menzies' Asia Policy and the Anachronistic Fallacy'', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 67, pp. 235 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2013.774305

Cotton J, 2012, 'Dancing with Warriors: A Diplomatic Memoir', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 71, pp. 96 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2012.00752_3.x

Cotton J, 2012, 'The Unknown Nation: Australia after Empire.', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 43, pp. 134 - 135, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000306118100016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Cotton J, 2011, ''If You Leave Us Here We Will Die': How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 65, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2011.535607

Cotton J, 2011, 'In Memoriam: J. D. B. Miller', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 65, pp. 143 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2011.559905

Turnbull P; Brennan C; Howes H; O’brien P; Winter C; Paini A; Chambers A; Chambers KS; Cotton J; Newbury C; Belgrave M; Wilson J; Munro D, 2010, 'Book Reviews', The Journal of Pacific History, 45, pp. 375 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2010.530820

Cotton J, 2009, 'Imperialism and internationalism in early Australian international relations: the contribution of W. Harrison Moore', Australian Journal of Political Science, 44, pp. 639 - 657, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361140903296552

Cotton J, 2009, 'Peacebuilding in the Pacific: the Australian military experience', Journal of Peace, Conflict and Development, 14, pp. 1 - 13, http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/dl/Issue%2014%20Article%207%20Final%20version%201.pdf

Cotton J, 2009, 'Realism, rationalism, race: On the early international relations discipline in Australia', International Studies Quarterly, 53, pp. 627 - 647

Cotton J, 2009, 'W. K. Hancock and international relations in Australia: the Commonwealth as a model of world government', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 55, pp. 475 - 495

Cotton J, 2008, 'Asian Regionalism and the Australian Policy Response in the Howard Era', Journal of Australian Studies, 32:1, pp. 115 - 134

Cotton J, 2008, 'Celebrating 75 years: The Australian Institute of International Affairs and Australian international relations', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62, pp. 541 - 557

Cotton J, 2007, 'Timor-Leste and the discourse of state failure', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61, pp. 455 - 470, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357710701684914

Cotton J, 2007, ''Arc of instability'? Melanesia in the early 2000s.', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 61, pp. 146 - 148, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000245107200015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Cotton J, 2007, 'Australia`s arc of instability: The political and cultural dynamics of regional security', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61, pp. 146 - 148

Cotton J, 2007, 'North Korea and the Six-Party Process: Is a Multilateral Resolution of the Nuclear Issue Still Possible', Asian Security, 3:1, pp. 27 - 44

Cotton J, 2007, 'Timor-Leste and the Discourse of State Failure', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61:4, pp. 1 - 13

Cotton J; Ravenhill J, 2006, '`Radical Conservative`', The Diplomat, pp. 40 - 47

Cotton J, 2006, 'Australian Foreign Policy and the Management of Intelligence Post-September 11', Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, 0603, pp. 1 - 35

Cotton J, 2005, 'East Timor in 2004 - It is all about oil', Asian Survey, 45, pp. 186 - 190

Cotton J, 2005, 'The Proliferation Security Initiative and North Korea: Legality and limitations of a coalition strategy', Security Dialogue, 36, pp. 193 - 211

Cotton J, 2005, 'Transparency and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59, pp. 569 - 571

Cotton J, 2005, 'Whither the six-party process on North Korea?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59, pp. 275 - 282

Cotton J, 2004, 'The Near North, the East Asian hemisphere, the Asia-Pacific: seeking direction in Australian foreign policy', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58:1, pp. 143 - 155

Cotton J, 2003, 'The rhetoric of Australia's regional policy', , pp. 443 - 449

Cotton J, 2003, 'The second Korean nuclear crisis and Australia: Introduction', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 57, pp. 259 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1035771032000098581

Cotton J, 2003, 'Korea after the crash. The politics of economic recovery', PACIFIC REVIEW, 16, pp. 129 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0951274032000043271

Cotton J, 2003, 'Dealing with North Korea', Sydney Papers, 15(1), pp. 56 - 64

Cotton J, 2003, 'From `Timor Gap` to `Timor Sea`', Australian Quarterly, 75(2), pp. 27 - 32

Cotton J, 2003, 'Southeast Asia After September 11', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15(1), pp. 148 - 170

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