Selected Publications

(most recent first)

i. Books and monographs

Socialist Population Politics; The Political Implications of Demographic Trends in the USSR and Eastern Europe (M. E. Sharpe Inc., New York, 1980).

A Difficult Neighbourhood: Essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II (ANU Press, 2016)

ii. Book chapters

`The State of Poland, 1930-1984', J. Jupp (Gen. Ed.) The Encyclopaedia of the Australian Peoples (Sydney, 1988).

`Research and Ideology' in R. Sussex (ed.) Research Method and Interdisciplinarity (Melbourne, 1984).

`The Politics of Martial Law' in R. F. Miller (ed.) Poland in the Eighties (Canberra, 1984).

`Does the Other Half Know?' (with W. P. Butler), Science for a Sustainable Society, papers given during the 50th Jubilee Congress of ANZAAS, University of Adelaide, May 1980.

iii. Refereed journal articles

‘Putin’s Annus Mirabilis: Changing the Shape of Eurasia’ ANU Centre for European Studies Briefing Paper Series Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2014). ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.

‘Ukraine: a sharp turn eastwards?’ ANU Centre for European Studies Briefing Paper Series Vol. 1 No.1 (May 2010). ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.

`Poland since Solidarity', World Review, Volume 22, No. 22, June 1983.

`Poland - Background to the Crisis', Current Affairs Bulletin, January 1982.

`Kania and Solidarity - An Interpretation', Australian Outlook, Volume 36, No. 3, 1982, p. 6.

`The Demographic Factor in Inter-ethnic Relations in Yugoslavia', Southeastern Europe, (1977), No. 1, pp. 1 - 31.

`Population Politics in Poland', East Central Europe (1976), No. 2, pp. 127 - 176.

`Population Politics in the USSR', Part I, Soviet Union (1975), No. 1, pp. 55 - 80.

`Population Politics in the USSR', Part II, Soviet Union (1975), No. 2, pp. 117 - 144.

iv. Others (digital media, catalogue essays, reviews, etc)

‘Ukraine, Russia and the Future of Europe’ July 2018 ANU Centre for European Studies Briefing Paper Series

‘The End of Western Passivity in the Face of Russia's Increasing Aggression?’ [Online Interview] 10 May 2018 Ukrinform

‘Has the West Called Putin’s Bluff?’ 4 April 2018 Inside Story

‘Putin and Trump: Anatomy of a Bromance’ 11 February 2018 Inside Story

‘Making nice and making enemies’ 10 December 2015 Inside Story

‘Ukraine, out of sight’ 21 December 2015 Inside Story   

‘Bling and propaganda in an ethics-free zone’ 15 June 2015 Inside Story.

‘Ukraine conflict exposes Western weakness on Russia’ 10 April 2015 The Interpreter.

‘Peace in our time’ 23 March 2015 Inside Story.

‘Putin’s Westpolitik: Back to the USSR’ 17 December 2014 Inside Story.

‘Putin’s Parallel Universe’ 20 November 2014 Inside Story.

‘Russian disinformation and Western misconceptions’ 23 September 2014 Inside Story.

‘Ukraine Putin’s game changer’ 26 July 2014 The Australian.

‘Ukraine: Time to cut a deal?’ 30 May 2014 Inside Story.

‘Say nyet now – or watch Putin’s appetite expand’ 22 March 2014 The Australian.

‘Vladimir Putin: Geopolitical wrecking ball’ 21 February 2014 The Interpreter.

‘The man who volunteered for Auschwitz’ 3 October 2013 Inside Story.

‘A treacherous neighbourhood’ July-August 2013 Inside Story (print edition).

‘A difficult neighbourhood’ 2 July 2013 Inside Story.

‘Jan Karski’s valiant failures’ April 2013 Zachor pp. 25-33 (Zachor is the journal of the Australian Association of Holocaust Survivors and Descendants).

‘Will Putin survive until 2018’ 27 March 2013 Inside Story.

‘Towards a greater Putistan’ 4 October 2012 Open Democracy.

‘The Slavonic Autocrats’ Club’ 26 September 2013 Inside Story.

‘Towards a greater Putistan’ 17 September 2012 Inside Story.

‘Vladimir Putin, the waiting game’ 29 March 2012 Open Democracy.

‘Which Putin will stand up?’ 28 March 2012 Inside Story.

‘Putin’s phoney war’ 1 March 2012 Inside Story.

‘Setbacks at home, successes abroad: the mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin.’ 22 December 2011, Inside Story.

‘Putin's Ceausescu moment.’ 17 December 2011, The Canberra Times, p. 8.

‘Putin’s Ceausescu moment.’ 9 December, 2011, Inside Story.

‘Poland’s EU presidency: drawing the short straw.’ 5 December 2011, Inside Story.

‘Polish voters lean towards the West.’ 15 October 2011, The Canberra Times, p. 8.

‘President Putin of Eurasia (part 1).’ The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy 7 October 2011.

'President Putin of Eurasia (part 2).’ The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 7 October 2011.

‘Russian elections: leaving little to chance.’ 24 September 2011, The Canberra Times, p. 8.

‘Heading west, heading east: impressions from Warsaw and Moscow.’ 11 August 2011, Inside Story.

‘1989 and all that.’ The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 28 June 2011.

‘Ukraine balances EU and Russia.’ The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2 June 2011.

‘Putin returns Belarus to the fold.’ The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 27 May 2011.

‘Russian game-changer.’ 23 April 2011, The Canberra Times, p. 8.

‘Russia and its western neighbours: a watershed moment.’ 21 April 2011, Inside Story.

‘In Belarus, the leopard flaunts his spots.’ 8 January 2011, The Canberra Times, p. 6.

‘In Belarus, the leopard flaunts his spots.’ 4 January 2011, Inside Story.

‘Seven days that shook the world.’ 10 November 2010, The Canberra Times, p. 19.

‘Can Poland and Russia Get Along at Last.’ Quadrant, September 2010.

‘Poland: peace or ceasefire?’  10 July 2010, The Canberra Times, p. 8.

‘Ukraine turns to the east.’ 24 April 2010, The Canberra Times, p. 6.

‘Ukraine: a sharp turn eastwards?’ 7 April 2010, Inside Story.

`The Budapest School', Quadrant, November 1984

`Poland:  The Crisis becomes Chronic', Quadrant, January 1983.

`Poland - At the Foot of the Volcano', Quadrant, September 1981.

`Poland 1980: Salami Socialism without the Salami', Quadrant, October 1980.

v. Translations (Book-length)

(From Serbo-Croatian)

A Handbook of Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 1968)

Yugoslavia (Belgrade, 1968)

Yugoslav Mosaic (Belgrade, 1969)

Yugoslavia, Past and Present (Belgrade, 1969)

Yugoslav Short Stories (Belgrade, 1970)

(From Polish)

W. Tatarkiewicz, History of Aesthetics, Volume 3   (The Hague, 1973)

A. Wierzbicka, Semantic Primitives (Frankfurt, 1972)

 

Apart from articles for scholarly journals, in the early 1980s I published very widely in the serious daily and weekly press including in

    New Statesman

    National Times

    The Age

    Bulletin

    The Australian and

    The Canberra Times

 

Both in the 1980s, when on leave from the APS, and since returning to the ANU, I have given numerous interviews to non-print media, including some overseas outlets.

For most of my public service career, my work precluded me from publishing or speaking to media or at public events.  However, I regularly briefed Australian Prime Ministers, senior ministers and senior officials, and sometimes provided lectures and seminars to public service courses and meetings.