Richard’s papers
Review of Reimagining the Future: towards democratic governance
Review of Joseph A. Camilleri, Kamal Malhotra, and Majid Tehranian, Reimagining the Future: towards democratic governance – A report of the Global Governance Reform Project in Global Change, Peace and Security, Vol.12, No.3 (October), pp. 319-320.
East Timor Facing Independence
“East Timor Facing Independence” (with Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom), in R.Tanter, M.Selden and S.Shalom (eds.), East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community: Resistance, Repression and Responsibility. Special Issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 31, No. 1 and 2. [revised version in Tanter, 2001.]
“East Timor Facing Independence”, in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers, 2001
2001c “East Timor Facing Independence” (with Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom), in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited by Richard Tanter, Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom]. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield; Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001
“Introduction: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community”, in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers
“Introduction: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community”, (with Mark Selden and Stephen R. Shalom), in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited by Richard Tanter, Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom]. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield; Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001).
Antinomies of success, 1987
“The antinomies of Korean development”, (with Clive Hamilton), Journal of International Affairs, 41, 1: 63-90.
East Timor: Chronology
“East Timor: Chronology”, with Gerry van Klinken, Stephen Shalom, and Geoffrey C. Gunn, in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited by Richard Tanter, Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom]. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield; Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001).
One comparison, Reconciliation between China and Japan
One comparison, Reconciliation between China and Japan: A Search for Solutions, 25 January 2006
After Hegemony
After hegemony: risk and promise in East Asia, December 2005 draft.
Review of Bruce Grant, Indonesia (new edition)
Review of Bruce Grant, Indonesia (new edition), (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), Arena Magazine, 1997.
Notes on the history of Indonesian intelligence organizations, 1945-1965
Notes on the history of Indonesian intelligence organizations, 1945-1965. Revised: October 8, 1993.
Notes on a missing category of Indonesian political analysis
Notes on a missing category of Indonesian political analysis, September 28, 1999.
Wrong horse, wrong race – CLSA Tokyo Forum, March 2007
Wrong horse, wrong race: Japanese militarization and Japan’s real security needs, Presentation to CLSA Tokyo Forum, February 2007.
Wrong horse, wrong race – Minter Ellison, July 2007.
Wrong horse, wrong race: Japanese militarization and Japan’s real security needs, Presentation to Minter Ellison Seminar on International Affairs, Melbourne, 17 July 2007.
About face: Japan’s remilitarisation
About face: Japan’s remilitarisation, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, Tokyo, November 2006 [released for general circulation, February 2009, courtesy CLSA].
Intelligence Agencies and Third World Militarization
Folder with thesis files.
Documenting our forgotten war: Australia in Afghanistan
Documenting our forgotten war: Australia in Afghanistan, Arena Magazine 90, August – September 2007, pp 90-91.
Memo to Kevin Rudd: Why are we in Afghanistan?
Richard Tanter, Arena Magazine, 92, December 2007 – January 2008
The humble star of hope: environmental heroes in the shadow of war
Richard Tanter, first published in …
希望の小さな星:戦争の影にある環境ヒーロー
Richard Tanter, first published in…
Sakhalin gas: dream or nightmare? Part 1
書評 : ロビン・ウイリアムズ『2007年─そのうちはじまるほんとうの話』
Robyn Williams, 2007—a true story, waiting to happen
Islam, poppies and pipelines: background to the coming war – Part 1
Islam, poppies and pipelines: background to the coming war – Part 2
イスラムとケシとパイプライン──きたるべき戦争の背景──第1部
イスラムとケシとパイプライン──きたるべき戦争の背景──第2部
「日本の未来に問われる民主主義」 [Doubts on the future of Japanese democracy - Interview with Peace Depot]
「日本の未来に問われる民主主義」 [Doubts on the future of Japanese democracy - Interview with Peace Depot], 核兵器・核実験モニター [Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Test Monitor] 第326号 2009年4月15日
Tensions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the question of Al Qaeda and the Taliban
Climate change, human security and the role of the military in the coming global politics of a carbon-constrained world
Conference on Climate Insecurities, Human Security and Social Resilience Conference, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
DFAT NGO Consultation – Disarmament, 7 April 2008, Canberra
Pine Gap, Australia and contemporary US military strategy, NFIP, 13 June 2008
Heisei militarisation, Australia, and our real security needs
Japan Peace Forum, 29 March 2008
Nuclear power in the seismic zone: assessing risk in Indonesian nuclear power proposals
With Arabella Imhoff, for the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Melbourne, March 2009
From Defeat to Alliance: The Making of Post-War Japan
Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Canberra, April 2009
Japanese security today: Heisei militarisation – problem or solution?
Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Canberra, April 2009
Reconciliation between China and Japan: Short Paper
Reconciliation between China and Japan: A Search for Solutions, Australian National University, 17th and 18th August 2006.
New Wars, Old Wars
Lecture, Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College, February 2005
Notes on security, national and otherwise (2004)
The Military Situation in East Timor, June 1976
Information Office, Democratic Republic of East Timor
Management of environmental risk and deficits in global governance: two regional cases
Lecture presentation, Global Risk and Global Governance, RMIT University, 28 September 2009
Climate change, security and the military – Australian approaches, Indonesian challenges
Climate change, security and the military – Australian approaches, Indonesian challenges, and new challenges , Diskusi “Militer: Peran dan Tantangan dalam Isu Perubahan Iklim” Bidang Komunikasi Lingkungan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat, Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup , Ministry of Environment, Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, 20 November 2009
Democratic accountability and risk assessment in Indonesian nuclear power proposals
GoNERI Project, School of Engineering, Tokyo University, 4 March 2010
The Afghanistan war 2001-2010: the national interest and the human interest
Social Education Victoria, Melbourne, March 19, 2010
Climate change, Security and Complexity – Richard Tanter
Seminar presentation, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, 19 September 2008. [PPT, 300 kb]
The Afghanistan war: the national interest and the human interest
by Richard Tanter to Social Education Victoria and the Australian Institute for International Affairs (Vic), 29 April 2010. [PDF, 1 Mbyte]
Australia in Afghanistan 2001 -2010: the way out of the quagmire
Australia in Afghanistan 2001 -2010: the way out of the quagmire , MinterEllison – Deakin University Geostrategic Politics Series , June 30, 2010
Australian military aid to Indonesia
ACFOA Development Dossier 1, 1980, pp. 37-40.
Submission to the Inquiry into Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
Richard Tanter’s submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) Inquiry into Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.
Out of the war [Footnoted version]
Out of the war: eight steps to a sustainable peace in Afghanistan, Dissent, (34) Summer 2010 [Footnoted version]
Comment: Gates, the DJP and the semi-sovereign state, The Nelson Report, 23 October 2009
The Military Situation in East Timor – Pacific Research 1976
The Military Situation in East Timor – Dissent, 1977
After hegemony: risk and promise in East Asia
Japan, Australia and the Changing Asia Pacific Region: Prospects for Peace, Prosperity and Regional Integration. Japan-Australia Symposium 2005, Tokyo University, December 2005. Organized by the Committee for Japan-Australia Symposium 2005 and the Center for Pacific and American Studies, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Sponsored by Resona Asia-Oceania Foundation, Australia-Japan Foundation and Ichiko (The First High School) Fund.
Japanese remilitarisation today, “Japanese remilitarisation today”, in Sally Totman and Scott Burchill (eds.) Global Crises and Risks, (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Witness Denied: the Australian Response to the Indonesian holocaust, 1965-66
Paper prepared for the International Conference on Indonesia and the World in 1965, Goethe Institute Jakarta, 18-21 January 2011
Risk assessment, energy requirements, and democratic accountability in Indonesian nuclear power proposals
Forum Komunikasi Masyarakat Nuklir Indonesia 11 February 2011
Tempo interview, English version
Tempo [English edition], No. 24/X/February 01-08, 2011
“Indonesia and the world in 1965”: an intervention in history, culture and memory
The Languages of National Security
Hope and Fear in East Timor – February 1999
Post-Cold War deterrence: theory, policy, and practise
Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, POLS 90030, University of Melbourne, 22 March 2011
Australia and nuclear weapons
Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, POLS 90030, University of Melbourne, 17 May 2011
TEPCO Country after Fukushima – footnoted version
Beyond the Nuclear Umbrella – web version
Dual Aspects to the War in Afghanistan for Many Australians
Disarming Times (Pax Christi), Vol. 36, No. 3, Aug/Sept/Oct 2011.
Japan and the dissolution of US nuclear hegemony in Northeast Asia
POLS 90030, Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, University of Melbourne, 3 May 2011
Nuclear Power in Japan: Fukushima and After
Lecture, University of Melbourne, 19 October 2011
The Great Killings in Indonesia through the Australian mass media
MSS for Bernd Schafer, Indonesia and the World in 1965, forthcoming.
With Eyes Wide Shut
In Melvin Gurtov and Peter Van Ness (eds.), Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), pp. 153-180.

