Emeritus Professor James Cotton

Emeritus Professor James Cotton

Emeritus Professor
UNSW Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

James Cotton graduated with first class honours and was a University medal winner at Flinders University. He was a 1975-76 Procter Fellow at Princeton University, and studied at the Beijing Language Institute (1980). He has held academic positions in Western Australia, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Singapore, the Australian National University, and Tasmania (head of Politics School, 1993-1997); he is a former head of the School of Politics, University of NSW, ADFA. In 2001 he was Centennial Professor in International Relations and in the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics, and in 2004 and 2007 he was Visiting Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC, as Australian Scholar, Session 2, 2009. In 2013 he was Harold White Fellow, National Library of Australia.

BA (Flinders), MA (Durham), MScEcon PhD (London School of Economics), FRAS, FAIIA

Research Interests / Projects
  • Australian foreign and security policy
  • Proliferation in North Korea and its regional consequences
  • Early Australian international relations
  • Asian regional organizations and security

He is currently working on several projects including on the documentary record of Australian foreign relations, 1920-1936 (in collaboration with Historical Documents, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), on the history of the international relations discipline in Australia; and on current regional relations.

Professional Activities

Between 1997 and 2003 James Cotton was a foundation member of the Foreign Minister?s Advisory Council convened by the Foreign Minister of Australia. He is a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and also of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP); he is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) and of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Having previously served as Editor, he is on the Editorial Board of The Australian Journal of International Affairs

Location
Building 29 Room 105
  • Books | 2022
    Cotton J, 2022, The Australians at Geneva Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years
    Books | 2013
    Cotton J, 2013, The Australian School of International Relations
    Books | 2012
    Cotton J, 2012, Australia and the United Nations
    Books | 2010
    Cotton J, 2010, International relations for Australia : Michael Lindsay, Martin Wight, and the first department at the Australian National University, Working Paper 2010/2, Australian National University: Department of International Relations, Canberra, http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ir/pubs/work_papers/10-2.pdf
    Books | 2007
    2007, Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, Cotton J, (ed.), Oxford University Press, Melbourne
    Books | 2006
    Cotton J; Ungorer C; Harris S, 2006, The Road to a Nuclear North Korea: Regional Reactions, Global Impacts, Australian Interests, Strategic Insights 32, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra
    Books | 2006
    Cotton J, 2006, East Timor, Australia and Regional Order, paperback, Routledge, London & New York
    Books | 2004
    Cotton J, 2004, East Timor, Australia and Regional Order: intervention and its aftermath in SE Asia, Routledge Curzon, London and NY, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203420997
    Books | 2002
    Cotton J, 2002, Crossing Borders in the Asia Pacific, Original, Nova Science Publications, New York, USA
    Books | 2002
    2002, The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs 1996-2000, Cotton J, (ed.), Oxford University Press, Australia
    Books | 1999
    1999, East Timor and Australia: AIIA contributions to the policy debate, Cotton J, (ed.), Canberra ADSC/AIIA, Canberra
    Books | 1989
    Cotton J; Neary I, 1989, The Korean War in History, Manchester University Press
    Books | 1989
    Cotton J, 1989, Asian Frontier Nationalism Owen Lattimore and the American Policy Debate
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    Cotton J, 2022, 'Ideology and the Legitimation Crisis in North Korea', in Routledge Library Editions: Modern East and South East Asia, pp. 86 - 101
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Cotton J, 2018, '‘Relations with Indonesia in the Whitlam Era: the Centrality of the East Timor issue’', in Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1972-83, edn. Australian Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Canberra, pp. 115 - 143
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Cotton J, 2016, 'Diplomacy in the 1990s: Issues for the Washington embassy.', in Lowe, D ; Bridge, C ; Lee D (ed.), Australia goes to Washington : 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, ANU EPress, Canberra, pp. 209 - 232
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Cotton J, 2015, 'Ideology and the legitimation crisis in North Korea', in Communism and Reform in East Asia, pp. 86 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315697833
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Cotton J, 2014, 'Barwick, Hasluck and the Management of Foreign Policy towards Northeast Asia: the Limits of Australian "Realism"', in Tyler (ed.), Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1960-72, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Canberra, pp. 151 - 180
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Cotton J, 2009, 'Australia and the Asian Strategic Context: Balancing Relations with the Major Powers', in Sisodia NS; Krishnappa V (ed.), Global Power Shifts and Strategic Transition in Asia, edn. Original, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, pp. 151 - 179
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Cotton J, 2009, '‘Australia and Asian Institutional Networks: Bilateral Preferences, Multi-lateral Gains’', in Thomas N (ed.), Governance and Regionalism in Asia, Routledge, London, pp. 146 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203883853
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Cotton J; Ravenhill J, 2007, 'Trading on Alliance Security: Foreign Policy in the post-11 September era', in Cotton J; Ravenhill J (ed.), Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, edn. First, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 3 - 19
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Cotton J, 2007, 'After the Flood: Foreign Policy and the Management of Intelligence', in Cotton J; Ravenhill J (ed.), Trading on Alliance Security: Australia in World Affairs 2001-2005, edn. First, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 329 - 351
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Cotton J, 2007, 'The Crisis in East Timor: Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future', in The Crisis of the Timor-Leste State in Comparative Perspective, edn. Original, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, pp. 13 - 22
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Cotton J, 2006, 'ASEAN and Regional Institutions in the Asia-Pacific: Ambitions Versus Performance', in Globalization and Regionalization: Views from the Pacific Rim, edn. Original, UTS and Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, pp. 73 - 111
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Cotton J, 2006, 'Regionalization, Marketization and Political Change in the Pacific Rim', in East Timor/timor Leste: national, Regional and International Sources of Political Legitimacy, edn. First, UTS and Universidad de Guadalaljara, Mexico, pp. 147 - 177
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Cotton J, 2006, 'The Domestic Sources of Regional Order in Michael Leifer`s Analysis of Southeast Asia', in Liow JC; Emmers R (ed.), Order and Security in Southeast Asia, Routledge Curzon, London & New York, pp. 212 - 227
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'The Rhetoric of Australia`s Regional Policy', in Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges, ISEAS Publishers, Singapore, pp. 29 - 46
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Cotton J, 2002, 'North Korea and the Axis of Evil', in Williams M; Suh C-S (ed.), The Inter-Korean relationship in the post September 11 environment, edn. Original, Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC), Sydney, Australia, pp. 42 - 56
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, 'Sun Zi: Diplomacy and war', in The Strategists, edn. Original, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, pp. 15 - 26
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Cotton J, 2000, 'The Asian crisis and the perils of enterprise association: explaining the different outcomes in Singapore, Taiwan and Korea', in Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis, edn. Original, Routledge Press, London & New York, pp. 151 - 168
    Book Chapters | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'The Rajin-Sonbong Free Trade Zone experiment: North Korea in pursuit of new international linkages', in North Korean foreign policy in the post-Cold War era, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, pp. 212 - 233
  • Edited Books | 2021
    Cotton J, (ed.), 2021, Australia and the World 1931—1936: Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, Uiversity of New South Wales Press, Sydney
    Edited Books | 2019
    Cotton J, (ed.), 2019, Australia and the World 1920-1930. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney
  • Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2013
    Cotton J, 2013, 'Cold War Southeast Asia', JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES, 44, pp. 345 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022463413000118
    Journal articles | 2013
    Cotton J, 2013, 'Middle powers in the Asia pacific: Korea in Australian comparative perspective', Korea Observer, 44, pp. 593 - 621
    Journal articles | 2013
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    Journal articles | 2011
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    Cotton J, 2009, 'Realism, rationalism, race: On the early international relations discipline in Australia', International Studies Quarterly, 53, pp. 627 - 647
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2008
    Cotton J, 2008, 'Asian Regionalism and the Australian Policy Response in the Howard Era', Journal of Australian Studies, 32:1, pp. 115 - 134
    Journal articles | 2008
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    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, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000245107200014&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Journal articles | 2007
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    Cotton J, 2007, 'Timor-Leste and the Discourse of State Failure', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 61:4, pp. 1 - 13
    Journal articles | 2007
    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
    Journal articles | 2006
    Cotton J; Ravenhill J, 2006, '`Radical Conservative`', The Diplomat, pp. 40 - 47
    Journal articles | 2006
    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
    Journal articles | 2005
    Cotton J, 2005, 'East Timor in 2004 - It is all about oil', Asian Survey, 45, pp. 186 - 190
    Journal articles | 2005
    Cotton J, 2005, 'The Proliferation Security Initiative and North Korea: Legality and limitations of a coalition strategy', Security Dialogue, 36, pp. 193 - 211
    Journal articles | 2005
    Cotton J, 2005, 'Transparency and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59, pp. 569 - 571, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000234325200025&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
    Journal articles | 2005
    Cotton J, 2005, 'Whither the six-party process on North Korea?', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 59, pp. 275 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357710500231156
    Journal articles | 2004
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1035771032000184818
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'Dealing with North Korea', Sydney Papers, 15(1), pp. 56 - 64
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'From `Timor Gap` to `Timor Sea`', Australian Quarterly, 75(2), pp. 27 - 32
    Journal articles | 2003
    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
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'Southeast Asia After September 11', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15(1), pp. 148 - 170
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'Still a Fateful Conflict: The Korean War Fifty Years On', Quadrant, 402, pp. 50 - 55
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'The Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 57(2), pp. 261 - 279
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'The rhetoric of Australia's regional policy', The 2nd ASEAN Reader, pp. 443 - 449
    Journal articles | 2003
    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
    Journal articles | 2003
    Cotton J, 2003, 'The second North Korean nuclear crisis', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 57, pp. 261 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357710301753
    Journal articles | 2002
    Cotton J, 2002, 'Australia in Pursuit of Bilateral Relations with Indonesia', Daxiyangguo, 1, No. 2, pp. 139 - 157
    Journal articles | 2002
    Cotton J, 2002, 'North Korea: Trouble Ahead', Asia Pacific Defence Reporter, 28, pp. 47 - 48
    Journal articles | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, 'Against the grain: The East Timor intervention', Survival, pp. 127 - 142
    Journal articles | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, 'Australia`s commitment in East Timor', Contemporary Southeast Asia, pp. 552 - 568
    Journal articles | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, 'Australia’s commitment in east timor: A review article', Contemporary Southeast Asia, 23, pp. 552 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/CS23-3H
    Journal articles | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, 'Nova esperança no compromisso australiano para com Timor Leste', Janus 2002: anuario de relac?es exteriores, pp. 90 - 91
    Journal articles | 2001
    Journal articles | 2001
    Cotton J, 2001, '`Part of the Indonesian world`: Lessons in East Timor policy making, 1974-76', Australian Journal of International Affairs, pp. 119 - 131
    Journal articles | 2001
    Mackerras MH; Cotton J, 2001, 'Australia', European Journal of Political Research, pp. 313 - 322
    Journal articles | 2000
    Cotton J, 2000, 'The Emergence of an Independent East Timor: National and Regional Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia', Contemporary Southeast Asia, pp. 1 - 22
    Journal articles | 2000
    Cotton J, 2000, 'The emergence of an independent east timor: National and regional challenges', Contemporary Southeast Asia, 22, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/CS22-1A
    Journal articles | 2000
    Cotton J, 2000, 'The retrocession of macau and the limitations of the ‘hong kong model’', Pacific Focus, 15, pp. 49 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1976-5118.2000.tb00242.x
    Journal articles | 2000
    Mackerras M; Cotton J, 2000, 'Special Issue Political Data Yearbook 1999 - Australia', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, 38, pp. 313 - 322, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000170161200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'ASEAN and the Southeast Asian `haze`: challenging the prevailing modes of regional engagement', Pacific Affairs
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'North Korea`s nuclear and missile proliferation and regional security', Current Issues Brief, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'Peacekeeping in East Timor: An Australian policy departure', Australian Journal of International Affairs, pp. 237 - 246
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'The Effects of the financial Crisis in the Mature Asian NICs: `Enterprise Association` and its Modifications', Asian Journal of Public Administration, 21, pp. 3 - 28
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'The Koreas in 1999: between confrontation and engagement', Research Paper 14, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'The `haze` over Southeast Asia: challenging the ASEAN mode of regional engagement', Pacific Affairs, pp. 331 - 351
    Journal articles | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'The state, society and big business in South Korea.', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 53, pp. 216 - 218, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000081608000012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J; Meldrum B, 1998, 'The US-DPRK Agreed Framework, Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation (KEDO), and `four-party talks`¿the vicissitudes of engagement', Issues and Studies, pp. 121 - 143
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'A radical experiment: the evidence is in from North Korea`s Rajin-Sonbong area', Harvard Asia Pacific Review, 2, pp. 57 - 60
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'Bilateral accomplishments and multilateral tasks in Northeast Asian security', Contemporary Southeast Asia, 20, pp. 137 - 153
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'Defection of North Korea`s ideologist a sign of regime crisis', Pacific Review, 11, pp. 107 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749808719246
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'Democracy in Asia.', AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 92, pp. 967 - 967, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2586355
    Journal articles | 1998
    Cotton J, 1998, 'The new insecurity in Asia', Quadrant, pp. 17 - 21
    Journal articles | 1997

    Cotton J, 1997, 'Korea and Australian foreign policy priorities in the 1990s', Pacific Focus, 12, pp. 5 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1976-5118.1997.tb00009.x

    Journal articles | 1997
    Cotton J, 1997, 'Australia, Hong Kong and China: A welcome transition?', Asian Studies Review, 21, pp. 181 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03147539708713172
    Journal articles | 1997
    Cotton J, 1997, 'Mixed signals on korean security', Contemporary Southeast Asia, 18, pp. 400 - 416
    Journal articles | 1996

    Cotton J, 1996, 'State and society in Singapore', Pacific Review, 9, pp. 278 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749608719184

    Journal articles | 1996
    Cotton J, 1996, 'China and Tumen River cooperation: Jilin's coastal development strategy', Asian Survey, 36, pp. 1086 - 1100, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2645637
    Journal articles | 1996
    Cotton J, 1996, 'Opposition in Asian constitutional systems: Characteristics and potential for democratic consolidation', Government and Opposition, 31, pp. 175 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1996.tb00603.x
    Journal articles | 1995

    Cotton J, 1995, 'Review article interpreting Singapore: Class or power?', Pacific Review, 8, pp. 558 - 563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749508719157

    Journal articles | 1994
    Cotton J, 1994, 'Signs of change in North Korea', Pacific Review, 7, pp. 223 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749408719090
    Journal articles | 1993
    Milner A; Cotton J; Kerr P; Kikuchi T, 1993, 'Perceiving National Security: A Report on East Asia and Australia', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 47, pp. 221 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357719308445109
    Journal articles | 1992
    Cotton J; Van Leest KHA, 1992, 'Korea: Dilemmas for the ‘golf republic’', Pacific Review, 5, pp. 360 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749208719004
    Journal articles | 1992
    Cotton J, 1992, 'The pacific between opportunity and risk', Pacific Review, 5, pp. 306 - 308, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749208718996
    Journal articles | 1992
    Cotton J, 1992, 'The two koreas and rapprochement: Foundations for progress?', Pacific Review, 5, pp. 162 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749208718971
    Journal articles | 1992
    Cotton J, 1992, 'Understanding the state in south korea: Bureaucratic-Authoritarian or State Autonomy Theory?', Comparative Political Studies, 24, pp. 512 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414092024004005
    Journal articles | 1991
    Cotton J, 1991, 'Guest editor’s introduction', Pacific Review, 4, pp. 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749108718935
    Journal articles | 1991
    Cotton J, 1991, 'Singapore scrutinized', Pacific Review, 4, pp. 185 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749108718914
    Journal articles | 1990
    Cotton J, 1990, 'APEC: Australia hosts another pacific acronym', Pacific Review, 3, pp. 171 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749008718859
    Journal articles | 1990
    Cotton J, 1990, 'Modernization in East Asia', Pacific Review, 3, pp. 180 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749008718862
    Journal articles | 1990
    Cotton J, 1990, 'Pyongyang cast adrift', Pacific Review, 3, pp. 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512749008718877
    Journal articles | 1989
    COTTON J, 1989, 'From Authoritarianism to Democracy in South Korea', Political Studies, 37, pp. 244 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1989.tb01481.x
    Journal articles | 1989
    Cotton J, 1989, 'Vietnam: Reform and resistance', Pacific Review, 2, pp. 256 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748908718825
    Journal articles | 1988
    Cotton J, 1988, 'Guest editor’s introduction', Pacific Review, 1, pp. 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748808718782
    Journal articles | 1988
    Cotton J, 1988, 'Patriarchs and politics: Prospects for the Korean peninsula', Third World Quarterly, 10, pp. 79 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436598808420045
    Journal articles | 1988
    Cotton J, 1988, 'Sino-soviet relations and Korea', Pacific Review, 1, pp. 296 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748808718777
    Journal articles | 1988
    Cotton J, 1988, 'The pacific century: The political impact?', Pacific Review, 1, pp. 145 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09512748808718761
    Journal articles | 1987
    Cotton J, 1987, 'Hong Kong: Convergence or divergence?', Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, 6, pp. 3 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03025164
    Journal articles | 1987
    Cotton J, 1987, 'Ideology and the Legitimation Crisis in North Korea', Journal of Communist Studies, 3, pp. 86 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523278708414892
    Journal articles | 1985
    Cotton J, 1985, 'Asymmetry on the Korean Peninsula: Pyongyang and the North-South Dialogue of 1984', Journal of Communist Studies, 1, pp. 152 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13523278508414767
    Journal articles | 1981
    Cotton J, 1981, 'Sir William Petty and the Political Theory of Information', Politics, 16, pp. 331 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00323268108401821
  • Reports | 2018
    Cotton J, 2018, Australia in the League of Nations: a centenary view, Parliament of Australia, Canberra, https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1819/AustraliaLeagueofNations
    Conference Papers | 1999
    Cotton J, 1999, 'The Strategic importance of Taiwan in the Asia-Pacific region', in In Search of Peaceful Coexistence between Taiwan and China: Strategies and Approaches, In Search of Peaceful Coexistence between Taiwan and China: Strategies and Approaches, pp. 36 - 43, presented at In Search of Peaceful Coexistence between Taiwan and China: Strategies and Approaches
    Conference Papers | 1998
    Meldrum B; Cotton J, 1998, 'The U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework, KEDO, and "Four-Party Talks" - The Vicissitudes of Engagement', in Issues and Studies, INST INTERNAT RELATIONS, BEIJING, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 121 - 143, presented at 4th CSCAP North Pacific Working Group Meeting, BEIJING, PEOPLES R CHINA, 08 November 1998 - 10 November 1998, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000079255000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 1997
    Cotton J, 1997, 'CSCAP North Pacific Working Group meeting, Makuhari, 14-16 December, 1997: a report', in CSCAP North Pacific Working Group Meeting, CSCAP North Pacific Working Group Meeting, Makuhari, pp. 12 - 15, presented at CSCAP North Pacific Working Group Meeting, Makuhari, 14 December 1997 - 16 December 1997