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Burchill: Egypt’s Revolution: 100 Days On
Znet Article, May, 08 2011
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Over twenty dramatic days, Egyptians shredded the script that so many had always written for them
Burchill: No reason to assume she'll be right, mate
Znet Article, September, 07 2007
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No reason to assume she'll be right, mate
Burchill: What exactly are we witnessing?
Commentary, September, 17 2004
Scott Burchill
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Politically motivated violence which accepts no limits or constraints and makes no distinction between combatants and civilians is indefensible, both morally and tactically. Public horror and outrage at recent events in the Caucasus and again in I...
Burchill: Resistance, Collaboration And Terrorism
Commentary, July, 13 2004
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They were called "dead-enders," then "Saddam loyalists" and "remnants of the old regime." This was when the Pentagon was in denial about the insurgency it faced in Iraq. Later it was "foreign terrorists," whom we were told it was better to confron...
Burchill: The Lobby
Znet Article, April, 23 2004
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The Jakarta Lobby was an informal group of like-minded bureaucrats (DFAT, Ausaid, Defence), intelligence officers (DIO, ONA), as well as journalists and academics, who argued that Indonesia under General Suharto should be judged by a different sta...
Burchill: Australia and Iraq
Znet Article, March, 11 2004
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Scott Burchill is lecturer in international relations at Deakin University, and comments regularly on the war in Iraq for Webdiary. The failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has had interesting effects on political life in th...
Burchill: Hoping for Amnesia
Znet Article, December, 18 2003
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Sometimes in politics the moral high ground can only be reached by wading through the lowlands of public amnesia. Reacting to the capture of Saddam Hussein on 13 December, Prime Minister Howard declared his enthusiasm for a public trial: "I beli...
Burchill: What the West wants from Indonesia
Znet Article, October, 01 2003
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What the West wants from Indonesia
Burchill: People Are Going To Be Slaughtered
Znet Article, May, 27 2003
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Delivering the 25th annual Menzies lecture last October, foreign minister Alexander Downer declared that "bit by bit, leaders of governments that suppress human rights are being made to feel uncomfortable, however much they bluster and hide behind...
Burchill: Governments versus Peoples
Znet Article, February, 26 2003
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Governments versus Peoples
Burchill: Don't Pick Deadly Partners
Znet Article, November, 06 2002
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AN irrational and unsubstantiated fear of Indonesia's disintegration has long driven Australia's foreign policy planners to place a premium on stability in relations between the two nations.This obsession with preserving the status quo has been ba...
Burchill: Public Amnesia And Hypocrisy Needed To Justify War On Iraq
Commentary, October, 12 2002
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Trying to convince a sceptical population why Australia could soon be at war with Iraq is proving a major test of opinion management for the Howard Government.
Burchill: If Weapons Were Found
Commentary, September, 15 2002
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The English historian A.J.P. Taylor once argued that the principal difference between the methodologies of the lawyer and the historian was that "the lawyer aims to make a case; the historian wishes to understand a situation." According to Taylor,...
Burchill: Australia and Indonesia Reach an Understanding
Commentary, February, 20 2002
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The surprise decision by the Indonesian Government to propose a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia for combating international terrorism, is one of the cleverest diplomatic initiatives ever made in South East Asia.
Burchill: Australia's Nightmare
Commentary, January, 24 2002
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When US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz announced recently that "going after al Qaeda in Indonesia is not something that should wait until after Al Qaeda has been uprooted from Afghanistan", a shiver must have gone up the collective spine ...
Burchill: The End of Cosmopolitanism?
Commentary, November, 22 2001
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If it didn't have such disastrous consequences for some of the world's most desperate people, it would be amusing to watch the advocates of economic globalisation suddenly start championing border protection.
Burchill: Corrected: Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know
Commentary, October, 26 2001
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WASHINGTON'S decision to renew friendships with the Northern Alliance for its war against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban provides clues as to what George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard mean by "our values".
Burchill: The US, Indonesia, and Terror
Commentary, October, 01 2001
Scott Burchill
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In a bid to build its coalition for a war against terrorism, the United States has demonstrated that it is keen to have on side the world's biggest Islamic nation, Indonesia. Support from Indonesia, an ally of the United States from the late 1960s...
Burchill: Megawati's Indonesia and US regional policy
Commentary, August, 21 2001
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Following the visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, security issues in the East Asian region are starting to look much clearer. A widespread belief that Indonesia is edging towards disintegration s...
Burchill: The East Timorese of Western Sahara
Znet Article, March, 02 2001
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1975 was an extraordinary year for revolutionary upheavals in the Third World. The Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh in April just two weeks before the US puppet regime in Saigon collapsed. The Pathet Lao took control of Laos the following month...
