Griffith University

Monograph

• 2008a: The Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government (Pickering and Chatto, London).

Chapters in Edited Collections

• 2010a: ‘Herds, Hives and Savage War: Immanuel Kant, Warfare and the History of International Relations’ in R.B.J. Walker and B. Hindess (eds.), Kant and International Relations Theory, (forthcoming).
• 2009a: ‘Adam Ferguson, the 43rd and the Fictions of Fontenoy’ in E. Heath and V. Merolle (eds.), Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society, Pickering and Chatto, London, pp. 25-44.
• 2008b: ‘Images of Asia in European Enlightenment Political Thought, c.1600-1800.’ C.J. Nederman and T. Shogimen (eds.), Western Political Thought in Dialogue With Asia, Lexington Books, pp. 65-86.
• 2007a: ‘Civilization in a Savage Land: Australian Colonisation and Enlightenment Thought.’ D. Gare and D. Richter (eds.), Australia Since 1788: Challenging Historical Perspectives, Thompson Learning, South Melbourne, pp. 17-24.

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2011a: “Dua pezzi in sulla piazza…’: The Death of the Body Politics in Western Political Thought’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 110 (4): (under review).
• 2011b: ‘Dying for Security’, Cultural Studies Review, 17 (1): (forthcoming).
• 2010b: ‘Civilized Fictions: Warfare and Civilization in Enlightenment Thought’, Alternatives, (forthcoming).
• 2009b: ‘The Subject of War: From Salamanca to Sydney Cove’, Global Change, Peace and Security, 21 (1): 53-68.
• 2007b: ‘Traffick of Empire: Trade, Treaty and Terra Nullius in Australia and North America’,  History Compass, 5 (2): 1-20.
• 2006a: ‘Civilization, State Sovereignty and War: the Scottish Enlightenment and International Relations’, International Relations, 20 (2): 175-92.
• 2006b: with Dr. Mary Heath, ‘Savagery and Civilization: From Terra Nullius to ‘Tides of History”, Ethnicities, 6 (1): 5-26.
• 2006c: ‘Subjects of Benevolence: Concepts of Society and Civilization in Early Colonial Indigenous Administration’, Journal of Australian Studies, 86, 37-48, 198-202.
• 2005a: ‘The Empire of Political Thought: The Language of Civilization and Perceptions of Indigenous Government’, History of the Human Sciences, 18 (2): 1-22.
• 2005b: ‘Enlightened Histories: Civilization, War and the Scottish Enlightenment’, The European Legacy, 10 (2): 177-192.
• 2004a: ‘The ‘Tides of History’: The Yorta Yorta, Native Title, and Colonial Attitudes to Indigenous Sovereignty’, Journal of Indigenous Policy, 7 (2): 3-23.
• 2002/3: ‘Aboriginal Welfare and the Denial of Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia’, Arena Journal, 20, pp. 97-121.
• 2002a: ‘Zero Tolerance, Mandatory Sentencing and Early Liberal Arguments for Penal Reform’, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 201-218.
• 2002b: ‘Explaining War and Peace: Kant and Liberal International Relations Theory’, Alternatives, 27 (4): 407-428.
• 2002c: ‘Withstanding the Tide of History: The Yorta Yorta Case and Indigenous Sovereignty’. Borderlands – Special Indigenous Sovereignty Edition, 1 (2).
• 2001/2: ‘The Forge of Peace: Civil Society and the Problem of Violence’,  Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 22: 73-92.
• 2001a: ‘Of “social ties” and “savage hordes”: the denial of indigenous sovereignty in Australia’, Technical Report, Political Science Program, RSSS, Australian National University, pp. 1-37. EPrints Repository: http://eprints.anu.edu.au/archive/00001411/
• 2001b: ‘Subjecting the Natives: Aborigines, Property and Possession Under Early Colonial Rule’, Social Analysis, 45 (2): 143-162.
• 2001c: ‘Liberalism and Fear of Violence’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 4 (3), 2001, pp. 27-48.
• 1996: ‘Situated Consciousness or Consciousness of Situation? Autonomy and Antagonism in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness’, History of European Ideas, 22 (3): 193-215.

Encyclopaedia Entries

• 2010c: ‘Standing Armies’, in M. Bevir (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Political Theory, Sage, London, pp. 1319-1320.
• 2005c: ‘Corruption’, in M. Griffiths (ed), Encyclopaedia of International Relations and Global Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 129-37.
• 2005d: ‘Empire’, M. Griffiths (ed), Encyclopaedia of International Relations and Global Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 207-15 .

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

• 2010d: ‘The Dirtiest… Most Insignificant and Unpleasant Branch of Military Operations’: Warfare and Civilization in the Political Thought of Adam Ferguson (1723-1814)’, Proceedings of the Australian Association of European Historians Annual Conference, Adelaide, July 6-10.
• 2008c: ‘The Subject of War: From Salamanca to Sydney Cove’, Oceanic Conference on International Studies, University of Queensland, July 2-4.
• 2008d: ‘An Interest in Corruption?’ Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Queensland, July 6-9.
• 2007c: with Dr Lisa Hill, ‘From Republican to Liberalism: Corruption and Empire in Enlightenment Political Thought’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Monash University, September 24-26. <http://arts.monash.edu.au/psi/news-and-events/apsa/refereed-papers/index.php>
• 2007d: ‘Europe’s Asia: Empire, Difference and the Moral Geography of European Political Thought, c.1500-1800’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Monash University, September 24-26.
• 2005e: ‘Society: A Colonial History of the Concept’, Proceedings of the Australian Sociological Association Conference, Hobart, December 5-8 (CD-Rom).
• 2004b: ‘The Moral Physics of the Body Politic: Changing Contours of Corruption in Western Political Thought’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, September–October. <http://www.adelaide.edu.au/apsa/papers/>
• 2003: ‘Hume's History, Smith's Sentiments and Ferguson's Essay: Civilization, War and the Scottish Enlightenment’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, September 29-October 1. http://www.utas.edu.au/government/APSA/Bbuchanfinal.pdf
• 2002d: ‘The Empire of Political Thought: Perceptions of Indigenous Government in Australia’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Australian National University, October 2-4, http://www.arts.anu.edu.au/sss/apsa
• 2001d: ‘Punishing the Poor: Early “Liberal” Arguments for Penal and Police Reform’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Griffith University, September 24-26, http://www.gu.edu.au/school/ppp/APSA2001/
• 1997: ‘Civil and State Violence: On Fear In Liberal Political Thought’,  Proceedings of the 1997 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, (ed) G. Crowder, et.al. (eds.), Flinders University of South Australia, Volume I: 99-118.

Review Essays and Opinion Pieces

• 2006d: ‘Whose Civilization? Which Enlightenment?’, Australian Review of Public Affairs, online http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0402/buchan.html
• 2005f: ‘The Man Who Would Try the King’, The Australian Financial Review, Friday, December 2nd, pp. 4-5 (Review Section).
• 2005g: ‘Trying Times: The Life and Times of Tyrannicide’, The Drawing Board: Australian Review of Public Affairs, online http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0402/buchan.html
• 2005h: ‘Perils of Empire’, The Drawing Board: Australian Review of Public Affairs, online http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0402/buchan.html
• 2004c: ‘Moral Myopia and the Historical and International Dimensions of Justice’, The Drawing Board: Australian Review of Public Affairs, online http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0402/buchan.html
• 2004d: ‘Freedom’s Empire?’, radio broadcast, Perspective program, ABC Radio National (October 20), online http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1224244.htm

Keynote Presentations, Invitations to Conferences and Symposia

• 2009: Keynote speaker for the Queensland History Teachers Association State Conference, Brisbane, 27 June.
• 2009: Invited speaker at Interrogating Death and Dying: Legal, Biomedical and Social Perspectives, University of Sydney Law School, November 6.
• 2009: Invited speaker at Symposium on the work of Barry Hindess, Melbourne, July
• 2008: Invited participant at British International Theory Workshop, Adelaide University, July.
• 2008: with M. Barcham, ‘Empire and Indigenous Sovereignty: Arguments over the Treaty Option’, Pacific Rim/Early California Group, Huntington Library, University of Southern California, April.
• 2006: Invited speaker at Western Political Thought in Dialogue With Asia, University of Otago, December 13-15.
• 2005: Invited panellist at International Studies Association Conference, Hawaii, March.
• 2004: Invited speaker at Corruption: Expanding the Focus, ANU, July 30-31.
• 2004: Invited speaker at Islamic/Western Dialogues on Governance Values, Kuala Lumpur.