Articles 

Articles chronologically by area and topic

Laos | Cambodia | Miscellaneous Asia | Buddhism
Philosophy and Theory of History | Hominin evolution

Laos

  • “The Lao revolution: Leadership and policy differences”. Australian Outlook, 31(2), 1977, 279-288. [PDF]
  • “Factors influencing relations between the communist parties of Thailand and Laos”. Asian Survey, 19(4), 1979, 333-352. [PDF]
  • “The Lao revolution: Errors and achievements”. World Review, 16(2), 1979, 3-15. [PDF]
  • “The initial failure of agricultural cooperativization in Laos”. Asia Quarterly, 4, 1980, 273-299. [PDF]
  • “Laos: The Vietnamese connection” in L. Suryadinata, ed. Southeast Asian Affairs, 1980. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies/Heinemann, 1980. 191-209. [PDF]
  • “Laos in China’s anti-Vietnam strategy”. Asia Pacific Community, 11, 1981, 83-104. [PDF]
  • “Laos: The first Lao five-year plan”. Asian Thought and Society, 6(17-18), 1981, 272-276. [PDF]
  • “Lao foreign policy: The view from Vientiane”. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 11(3), 1981, 351-366. [PDF]
  • “Reflections on the Lao revolution”. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 3(1), 1981, 41-57. [PDF]
  • “National interests and international dependency in Laos”. World Review, 20 (2), 1981, 51-65. [PDF]
  • “Laos: A small state involved in neighbour’s conflict”. The Round Table, 282, 1981, 163-169. [PDF]
  • “Socialist construction and national society in Laos”. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 13(1), 1981, 61-71. [PDF]
  • Introduction, in M. Stuart-Fox, ed. Contemporary Laos. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982, 1-16.
  • “National Defence and Internal Security in Laos” in M. Stuart-Fox, ed. Contemporary Laos. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1982, 220-244. [PDF]
  • “Laos 1981: Economic prospects and problems” in H. K. Khanh, ed. Southeast Asian Affairs 1982. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies/Heinemann Asia, 1982. 229-242. [PDF]
  • “Laos in the 1980s”. International Asienforum, 13(3-4), 1982, 251-268. [PDF]
  • “Construcción socialista y seguridad nacional en Laos”. Estudios de Asia y Africa (Mexico), 12(2), 1982, 225-229. (Translation at editor’s request of BCAS article)
  • “Politicization of the Buddhist Sangha in Laos” [with R.S. Bucknell}. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 13(1), 1982, 60-80. [PDF]
  • “Marxism and Theravada Buddhism: The legitimation of political authority in Laos”. Pacific Affairs, 56, 1983, 428-454. [PDF]
  • “Laos in 1983: A Time of Consolidation” in Pushpa Thabipillai ed. Southeast Asian Affairs 1984, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies/Heinemann, 179-194. [PDF]
  • “Laos in 1985: Time to Take Stock.” Southeast Asian Affairs (1986): 165-181. [PDF]
  • “Politics and patronage in Laos”. Indochina Issues, 70, 1986, 1-7. [PDF]
  • “The first ten years of communist rule in Laos: An overview”. Asia Pacific Community, 31, 1986, 55-81. [PDF]
  • “Laos: Dix ans après” [with Elisabeth Stuart-Fox]. Sudest Asie, 40, 1986, 12-16.
  • “Taking stock of the revolution”. Inside Asia, 7, 1986, 19-21. [PDF]
  • “Le modèle Laotien”. Sudest Asie, 50, 1988, 42-46.
  • “Laos in 1988: In pursuit of new directions”. Asian Survey, 29, 1989, 81-88. [PDF]
  • “Lao foreign policy” in D. Wurfel and B. Burton, eds. The political economy of foreign policy in Southeast Asia. London: Macmillan, 1990. 273-287. [PDF]
  • “Foreign policy of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic” in J.J. Zasloff and L. Unger, eds. Laos beyond the revolution. London: Macmillan, 1991. 187-208. [PDF]
  • “The constitution of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic”. Review of the Socialist Law, 17, 1991, 299-317. [PDF]
  • “Laos at the crossroads”. Indochina Issues, 92, 1991, 1-8. [PDF]
  • “Kaysone Phomvihan and the search for Lao national unity” [in Lao] in Kaysone Phomvihan: Son of the people. Vientiane: Lao Institute for the Social Sciences, 1991, 203-217.
  • “Laos 1991: On the defensive” in D. Singh, ed. Southeast Asian Affairs 1992. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. 163-180. [PDF]
  • “Who was Mahathevi?” Journal of the Siam Society, 81(1), 1993, 103-108. [PDF]
  • “Prospects for democracy in Laos”. Asian Studies Review, 17(2), 1993, 122-128. [PDF]
  • “On the writing of Lao history: Continuities and discontinuities”. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 24, 1993, 106-121. [PDF]
  • “Perspectiven für Demokratie in Laos”. Sudostasien Informationen, 9(1), 1993, 18-21. 
  • “Laos in the post-Kaysone era”. Lao Studies Review, 1, 1993, 1-8. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in R. Trood and D. McNamara, eds. The Asia-Australia Survey 1994. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1994. 182-194.
  • “Human rights in Laos” in D. Kingsbury and G. Barton, eds. Difference and tolerance: Human rights issues in Southeast Asia. Geelong: Deakin University Press, 1994. 120-135.
  • “Les études sur le Laos en Australie” in P-B Lafont, ed. Les recherches en sciences humaines sur le Laos. Paris: Centre d’Histoire et Civilisations de la Péninsule Indochinoise, 1994. 105-122.
  • “The French in Laos, 1887-1945”. Modern Asian Studies, 29(1), 1995, 111-139. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in R. Trood and D. McNamara, eds. The Asia-Australia Survey 1995-96. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1995. 280-299
  • “Laos: Towards subregional integration” in D. Singh, ed. Southeast Asian Affairs 1995. Singapore: ISEAS, 1995. 177-195. [PDF]
  • “Obituary: Phoumi Vongvichit”. Lao Studies Review, 2, 1995, 61-66. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in R. Trood and D. McNamara, eds. The Asia-Australia Survey 1996-97. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1996. 310-328.
  • “Vientiane (Vientiane, Laos)” in P.E. Schellinger and R.M. Salkin, eds., International Dictionary of historical places: Asia and Oceania. Chicago: Fitzroy & Dearborn,1996. 851-854. [PDF]
  • “Luang Prabang (Luang Prabang, Laos)” in P.E. Schellinger and R.M. Salkin, eds. International Dictionary of historical places: Asia and Oceania. Chicago: Fitzoy & Dearborn, 1996. 530-533. [PDF]
  • “Laos: History” in The Far East and Australasia 1996. London: Europa Publications, 1996. 525-531 {updated entries subsequent years to 2009}.
  • “Laos in 1997: Into ASEAN”. Asian Survey, 38, 1998, 75-79. [PDF]
  • “Laos in ASEAN; Dilemmas of Development and Identity”. Asian Studies Review, 22  (2), 1998, 223-237. [PDF]
  • “Lao Studies in Australasia” in J. Butler-Diaz, ed. New Laos. New Challenges. Arizona State University Press, 1998, 183-210.
  • “Laos: From Buddhist Kingdom to Marxist State” in I. Harris, ed. Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-century Asia. New York and London: Pinter, 1999, 153-172. [PDF]
  • “Laos”. Encarta Online Encyclopedia, Microsoft Corporation
  • “Political Outlook: Laos” Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2000-2001. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000, 24-27.
  • “Historiography, Power and Identity: History and Political Legitimization in Laos” in Christopher E. Goscha and Soren Ivarsson eds. Contesting Visions of the Lao Past: Lao Historiography at the Crossroads. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2003, 73-95. [PDF]
  • “Politics and Reform in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic” Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Working Paper No. 126, November 2005., 60 pp. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in Alan J. Day, ed. Political Parties of the World. 6th ed. London: John Harper Publishing, 2005, 364-366.
  • “The challenge of Lao historiography” South East Asia Research, 14, 2006, 339-359. [PDF]
  • “Population diversity and rice in Laos” in J. M. Schiller et al, eds. Rice in Laos Los Banos: International Rice Research Institute, 2006, 1-8. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in Encyclopaedia Britannica: 2006 Book of the Year, Vol. 1, 423-424.
  • “Lao Communist Revolution” in James DeFronzo, ed. Revolutionary Movements in World History from 1750 to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006, 529-538.
  • “Buddhism and Politics in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand” Address to the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand Summer School, Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University, 30 January 2006. [PDF]
  • “Laos: Politics in a Single-party State” in Daljit Singh and Lorraine C. Salazar, eds. Southeast Asian Affairs 2007. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, 161-180. [PDF]
  • “Political Outlook: Laos” Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2007-2008. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, 29-33.
  • “Foreword” to Marc Askew, William S. Logan and Colin Long, Vientiane: Transformation of a Lao Landscape. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, xviii-xxi.
  • “History” in Laos. 6th ed. Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2007, pp. 27-45. {7th ed. 2010; 8th ed. 2014; 9th ed. 2017; 10th ed. 2020} [PDF]
  • “The Persistence of Political Culture in Laos and Cambodia” Sudostasien Aktuell, no. 3, 2008, 33-57. [PDF]
  • “Mayoury and Pheuiphanh Ngaosrivathana and the construction of national identity in Laos” in Gloria Davies, J. V. D’Cruz and Nathan Hollier, eds. Profiles in Courage: Political Actors and Ideas in Contemporary Asia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008, 156-168. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in Sanha Kelly, Christopher Walker and Jake Dizard, eds., Countries at the Crossroads 2007: A Survey of Democratic Governance Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield for Freedom House, 2008, 369-392.
  • “Political Outlook: Laos” Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2008-2009. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008, 31-35.
  • “Obituary: Nouhak Phoumsavanh”, New Mandala, 12 September 2008. [Link]
Obituary: Nouhak Phoumsavanh
  • “Laos: The Chinese Connection” in Daljit Singh, ed. Southeast Asian Affairs 2009. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009, 141-169. [PDF]
  • “Political Culture and Power in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic” The Journal of Asiatic Studies 52 (4), 2009, 222-254. [PDF]
  • “Political Outlook: Laos” Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2009-2010. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009, 27-31.
  • “Political Outlook: Laos” Regional Outlook Southeast Asia, 2010-2011. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, 33-37. [PDF]
  • “Laos” in Rodolfo C. Severino, Elspeth Thomson and Mark Hong, eds,. Southeast Asia in a New Era: Ten Countries, One Region in ASEAN. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, chap 5, 95-110.
  • “The reign of King Suriyavongsa” in Julieet van Krieken-Pieters, ed., Van Wuysthoff and the Lan Xang Kingdom: A Dutch Merchant’s Visit to Laos in 1641. Leiden: Ginkgo Publishers, 2010, 173-186. [PDF]
  • “Family Problems” Inside Story, 19 January 2011 at http://inside.org.au/family-problems/
  • “Laos” in Jake Dizard, Christopher Walker and Vanessa Tucker, eds., Countries at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Democratic Governance, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield for Freedom House, 2012, 325-345. [PDF]
  • “City planning of the Lao and Thai”. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2014, 12pp. [PDF]
  • “Teething troubles and treading water: What should we expect from ASEAN in 2016 with Laos as Chair?” Policy Forum, Asia and the Pacific Policy Society, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. [Link]

http://www.policyforum.net/teething-troubles-and-treading-water

  • “Laos: the Chinese connection” in Daljit Singh and Malcolm Cook, eds. Turning Points and Transitions: Selections from Southeast Asian Affairs 1974–2018, ISEAS Publishing, 2018, 384-398. [PDF]
  • “The Lao Constitution of 1947/1949: Creating a Nation-State” in Kevin Y. L. Tan and Bui Ngoc Son, eds., Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, pp. 257-274. [PDF]
  • “Elite family ties still bind the Lao Peoples’ Revolutionary Party” East Asia Forum, 21 January 2021. [PDF]

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Cambodia

  • “Resolving the Kampuchean problem: The case for an alternative regional initiative”. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 4(2), 1982, 210-255. [PDF]
  • “The Kampuchean problem: Time for realism”. World Review, 27(2), 1988, 56-72. [PDF1] [PDF2]
  • “Conferences on conflict resolution in Kampuchea” Asian Studies Association of Australia, Review 12 (3), 1989, 58-60.
  • “The agony of Cambodia” in C. Mackerras, ed. Eastern Asia: An introductory history. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1992. 556-570 {revised for 2nd (US) edition 1995, 3rd edition 2000}.
  • “The Persistence of Political Culture in Laos and Cambodia” Sudostasien Aktuell, no. 3, 2008, 33-57. [PDF]
  • “Symbolism in city planning in Cambodia from Angkor to Phnom Penh” (with Paul Reeve) Journal of the Siam Society 99, 2011, 105-138. [PDF]
  • ‘City planning in Cambodia’. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (with Paul Reeve), 2014, 1259-1268. [PDF]
  • “Power and political culture in Cambodia” (with Trude Jacobsen). Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series 200. [PDF]
  • “Sihanouk’s legacy” New Mandala 26 February 2013. [Link]
Sihanouk’s legacy

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China

  • “The Year of the Tiger”. Australian Quarterly, 70(1), 1998, 26-31. [PDF]
  • “China and Southeast Asia” IIAS Newsletter 25, 2001, 37.
  • “Southeast Asia and China: The role of history and culture in shaping future relations” Contemporary Southeast Asia26, 2004, 116-139. [PDF]
  • “Mongol expansionism” in Geoff Wade, ed. China and Southeast Asia, vol 1: Introduction and history to the fourteenth century. London: Routledge, 2008, 365-378.

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Miscellaneous Asia

  • “Tensions within the Thai insurgency” Australian Outlook, 33(2), 1979, 182-197. [PDF]
  • “Factors influencing relations between the communist parties of Thailand and Laos”. Asian Survey, 19(4), 1979, 333-352. [PDF]
  • “Recent French monographs on Indochina”. Asian Studies Review, 13(3), 1990, 121-128. [PDF]
  • “Australasian contributions to the historiography of Southeast Asia”. Australian Historical Association Bulletin, 66-67, 1991, 34-39. [PDF]
  • “Whither Burma?” World Review, 30, 1991, 34-45. [PDF]
  • “Indochina to 1954” in C. Mackerras, ed. Eastern Asia: An introductory history. Melbourne: Longman Chesire, 1992. 244-256 {revised for 2nd (US) edition 1995, 3rd edition 2000}.
  • “The nature and causes of revolution in Asia” in C. Mackerras, ed. Eastern Asia: An introductory history. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1992. 198-215 {revised for 2nd (US) edition 1995, 3rd edition 2000}.
  • “Political patterns in Southeast Asia” in C. Mackerras, ed. Eastern Asia: An introductory history. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1992. 94-107 {revised for 2nd (US) edition 1995, 3rd edition 2000}. [PDF]
  • “Tibet’s stubborn revival”. Australian Society, 11(1-2), 1992, 20-21. 
  • “Engaging ‘Asia’”. Asian Studies Review, 16(3), 1993, 95-99. [PDF]
  • “Conflicting conceptions of the state: Siam, France and Vietnam in the late nineteenth century”. Journal of the Siam Society 82, 1994, 135-144. [PDF]
  • “Australasian contributions to the historiography of Southeast Asia” in John A. Moses, ed. Historical disciplines in Australasia: themes, problems and debates. Special issue: Australian Journal of Politics & History. St Lucia: Queensland University Press, 1995, 214-222.
  • “Mainland Southeast Asia in Transition” The History Teacher, 34, no. 4, 1996, 19-30.
  • “The Dvaravati ‘Buddha on a Monster’ Stelae: A Possible Interpretation” (with S. Tiffin) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Series 3, 12 (1), 2002, 47-65. [PDF]
  • “Buddhism and Politics in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand” Address to the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand Summer School, Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University, 30 January 2006. [PDF] 
  • “The changing world order” in Geoff Wade, ed. China and Southeast Asia., vol 5: The Republican period and Southeast Asia : (1912 – 1949). London: Routledge, 2008, 1-15.
  • “Communism and the Cold War” in Geoff Wade, ed. China and Southeast Asia, vol 6: The People’s Republic of China and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge, 2008, 1-27.
  • “Historical and cultural constraints on development in the Mekong region” in Suiwah Leung, Ben Bingham and Matt Davies, eds., Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010, 169-189. [PDF]
  • “‘”City planning of the Lao and Thai”. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 2014, 12pp. [PDF]

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Buddhism

  • “On the methodology of interpretation of Buddhist symbolism” [with R.S. Bucknell]. The Journal of Religious Studies, 8(2), 1980, 38-57. [PDF]
  • “Politicization of the Buddhist Sangha in Laos” [with R.S. Bucknell}. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 13(1), 1982, 60-80. [PDF]
  • “Marxism and Theravada Buddhism: The legitimation of political authority in Laos”. Pacific Affairs, 56, 1983, 428-454. [PDF]
  • “Did the Buddha impart an esoteric teaching?” [with R.S. Bucknell]. Journal of Indian History, 61, 1983, 1-17. [PDF]
  • “The ‘Three Knowledges’ of Buddhism: Implications of Buddhadasa’s interpretation of rebirth” [with R.S. Bucknell]. Religion, 13, 1983, 99-112. [PDF]
  • “Buddhism and Politics in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand” Address to the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand Summer School, Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University, 30 January 2006, published online at [PDF]
  • “Jhana and Buddhist scholasticism”. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 12(2), 1989, 79-110. [PDF]
  • “Response to Lou Nordstrom’s Review of” The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism” (with Rod Bucknell). Philosophy East and West 39 (2), 1989, 191-196. [PDF]
  • Postscript to Rod Bucknell, Reconstructing Early Buddhism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp 265-268. [PDF]

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Philosophy and Theory of History

  • “Notes on historical writing for all three worlds”. Journal of Contemporary Asia 12 (2), 1982, 225-229. [PDF]
  • “Theory of history and its context of discovery”. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 13, 1983, 401-424. [PDF]
  • [The rationale for a theory of history: an examination of some points in the methodology of theory of history, and in the role theory of history might play in the methodology of historical research. MA thesis, University of Queensland.]
  • [Evolutionary theory of history. PhD thesis, University of Queensland.]
  • “The unit of replication on socio-cultural evolution”. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 9, 1986, 67-89. [PDF]
  • “Evolution, meaning and the humanities: A review essay”. Meanjin, 47, 1988, 762-768. [PDF]
  • “Can History be True? A Review Essay”. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 44, 1998, 113-128. [PDF]
  • “The future of history”. Access History, 2, 1999, 5-8.
  • “Evolutionary Theory of History”. History and Theory 38, 4, 1999, 33-51. [PDF]
  • “Evolutionary Theory of History” in P. Pomper, ed. The Return of Science.  Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002, 123-44.
  • “Law and history: Some observations” in Law, Memory and Literature, ALPSA Annual Publication, University of Queensland, 2004, 95-98.
  • “History and the return of science” Storia della Storiografia, 48, 2005, 49-61. [PDF]
  • “History and theory” University of Queensland Historical Proceedings 16, 2005, 121-128. [PDF]
  • “Two Views of the History of Historiography and the Nature of History” History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association, 4 (2), 2007, 44/1-44/17. [PDF]
  • Review essay on The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, by W. G. Runciman. “Constructing a selectionist paradigm” History and Theory 50 (2), 2011, 229-242. [PDF]
  • “Rethinking the evolution of culture” Journal of Culture and Cognition 15 (2015): 109-130. [PDF]
  • [Bautista, Juan Ramón Álvarez. “Evolución biológica y evolución cultural: una analogía propia. A propósito de la teoría de Martin Stuart-Fox.” Scripta Philosophiæ Naturalis 11 (2017): 29-47. [PDF]

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Hominin evolution

  • “The Origins of Causal Cognition in Early Hominins” Philosophy and Biology 30, 2 (2015): 247-266. [PDF]
  • “Major transitions in human evolutionary history” World Futures 79, 1 (2023): 29-68. [PDF]

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