Kosmas Tsokhas
Biographic Data
| ID | 388209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kosmas Tsokhas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kosmas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsokhas |
| SIGNATURE | TSOKHAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1441-0567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ruling Party or Ruling Class? Reading Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert Weapons of the Rich
In Weapons of the Rich, Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert (2020) have applied sociological theory and utilised primary research to argue that Chinese private entrepreneurs have been expanding their influence and becoming a powerful compeer of the Communist Party in what is a regime coalition. This review article draws on the findings of what is the most innovative and comprehensive study to date on the class of Chinese private entrepreneurs to r…
Active Defense
Handbook on China and Globalization
Chinese Urbanism
Whereas mainstream Chinese urban scholarship has been characterised by econometric and demographic studies of what have become increasingly global cities, Mark Jayne and the contributors to this vo
Humanity
In Humanity, Ai Weiwei tells us that because no artist can be self-contained, he feels that refugees are part of him and that he is part of them. He invites us to enter into a circuit of mutuality
British Art for Australia, 1860–1953
British Art for Australia, 1860–1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries." Australian Historical Studies, 51(2), pp. 237–238
China's Great Wall of Debt
In 2019, when factory output and manufactured exports had contracted and economic growth had decelerated, Chinese debt stood at 300% of gross domestic product (GDP). As well as reductions in corpor
China Steps Out
In 1999, when China had accrued around US$155 billion in foreign currency reserves, the Communist Party announced the “going out” policy, whereby state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companie
The Phoenix Years
The emergence of the Stars in the late 1970s is viewed by Madeleine O’Dea as the beginning of contemporary Chinese art in opposition to the official socialist realism of the Cultural Revolution. Sh
China's Crony Capitalism
In the light of revelations by President Xi Jinping as to the extent of bureaucratic and corporate corruption in China, Minxin Pei argues that in the “upper reaches” of party and state a “predatory
Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy
By the end of 2014, China had amassed foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$1.6 trillion, whereby China had become the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries. In China’s official stati
Oz magazine to Luna Park
Martin Ritchie Sharp was born into a wealthy Sydney family in 1942. He was educated at Cranbrook School and went on to study at the East Sydney National Art School. In 1963, Richard Neville, Sharp
Youth Cultures in China Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung (Cambridge
In Youth Cultures in China, Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music t
Holden cars to Anzac memorials
George Rayner Hoff was born in 1894 in Britain and studied at the Nottingham School of Art. After service in France during the Great War, in 1922 he was awarded a Rome Scholarship in sculpture whic
Florian Butollo, The End of Cheap Labour? Industrial Transformation and "Social Upgrading" in China
The Chinese economy has become unstable, with an imbalance between investment and consumption, inadequate research and innovation, uneven urban and rural development and a large income disparity re
Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu, The Global Rise of China
In exploring the phenomenal economic transformation of China, Alvin Y. So and Yin-wah Chu provide a “state-centered explanation” when they argue that the “communist party-state” released or constra
Max Delany and Eric Shiner, Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei
In this catalogue of essays for an exhibition of the work of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne between December 2015 and April 2016 and at the Andy Warhol M
China's Regional Relations
In this authoritative survey of power maximisation and strategic calculation, Beeson and Li argue that, as China’s leaders acquire a broad international agenda, many of the political values, policy
Australia as US Client State
According to Erik Paul, Australia’s participation in the American-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq has been the outcome of a shared destiny, derived from militarist patriotism, to reaffirm soc
Museums in China
Marzia Varutti blends detailed empirical observations from over 50 museums in Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang with theoretical developments in museum studies in terms of re
Asia Rising
Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam
In this study of the political, economic and military struggles between the French, the Japanese and the Indochina Communist Party (ICP) over the producing, marketing and consuming of rice in Vietn
Beautiful Floods
Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia
The restless energy, the accelerated momentum, the cumulative radicalisation of Asian independence movements against imperial rule and foreign occupation resulted in a sense of belonging, of solida
Heysen to Heysen
The correspondence between Hans Heysen (1877–1968) and Nora Heysen (1911–2003), which is held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra and has been judiciously selected and carefully annota
Dedominionization
The role of decolonization in the decline of the British empire has received a great deal of attention. In comparison there has been little research or analysis of the process of dedominionization affecting Australia and the other dominions. During the Second World War economic ties were seriously weakened and there were substantial conflicts over economic policy between the British and Australian governments. Australia refused to reduce imports …
China's Great Wall of Debt
In 2019, when factory output and manufactured exports had contracted and economic growth had decelerated, Chinese debt stood at 300% of gross domestic product (GDP). As well as reductions in corpor
Delusions of Development
Delusions of Development: The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Southeast Asia." Journal of Contemporary Asia, 41(4), pp. 697–698
Protection, imperial preference, and Australian conservative politics, 1923–39
(1992). Protection, imperial preference, and Australian conservative politics, 1923–39. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-87
Chinese Urbanism
Whereas mainstream Chinese urban scholarship has been characterised by econometric and demographic studies of what have become increasingly global cities, Mark Jayne and the contributors to this vo
Tradition, fantasy and Britishness
2001). Tradition, fantasy and Britishness: Four Australian prime ministers. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 3-30
Romanticism, aboriginality and national identity
This article examines the role of Aborigines in Mary Gilmore's development of an Australian national identity based on the interrelations between natural environment, prominent historical figures, pre‐industrial narratives and motifs associated with the settler frontier, Anzac and a distinctive literature and art. She romanticised the early settlers and held ideas inspired by Christianity. Gilmore called for the appropriation of Aboriginal cultur…
Business, empire and the United Australia party
This article presents an analysis of the political economy of the United Australia Party (UAP) mainly while in government There are discussions of decisions and policies relating to tariffs, the exchange rate and trade relations with the United Kingdom. Through four case studies of policy‐making it deals with two interrelated aspects of this political economy. The first aspect focuses on conflicts between key business groupings and how UAP govern…
Social capital, interdependence and Japanese multi-nationals
The political economy of Cuban dependence on the Soviet Union
The political economy of United States' investment in Australia
China Steps Out
In 1999, when China had accrued around US$155 billion in foreign currency reserves, the Communist Party announced the “going out” policy, whereby state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companie
Museums in China
Marzia Varutti blends detailed empirical observations from over 50 museums in Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang with theoretical developments in museum studies in terms of re
Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis
Although the global financial crisis started in the USA, Berch Berberoglu and the other contributors to Beyond the Global Capitalist Crisis have shown that, in general terms, as a result of trillio
Trouble Must Follow
Despite the attention that has been given to the role of economic sanctions in Japan's decision to launch the Pacific war, Australia's decision to ban iron ore exports to Japan has been given little attention, even though this was one of the earliest economic sanctions imposed onimperial Japan in the 1930s. To a degree this neglect can be traced to a preoccupation with the actions and objectives of the great powers and a failure to consider the o…
Federal Cartel or Commonwealth Hegemony? The Australian Loan Council 1924–1939
British administrators, Australian federalism and economic policy in the 1930s
This article is a contribution to the study of the relationship between transnational linkages between nation states and federal forms of government. It addresses two main bodies of political science literature. The first deals with the power of multinational corporations and transnational agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. One group of authors highlights the asymmetric power relations between dominant adva…
China's Crony Capitalism
In the light of revelations by President Xi Jinping as to the extent of bureaucratic and corporate corruption in China, Minxin Pei argues that in the “upper reaches” of party and state a “predatory
Asia Rising
A Search For Transcendence
Historian W. K. Hancock spent 15 years researching his biography of Jan Christiaan Smuts but little attention has been paid to this work in comparison with some of his other publications. Smuts' international interests were as broad as his political career was long. His philosophy of holism and its effect on his thinking and behaviour are a recurring theme of Hancock's narrative. In assessing Smuts' own philosophy Hancock himself became convinced…
The Australian Mining Industry Council, 1967–75
As the long boom that followed the Second World War ended in inflation, unemployment and exchange rate instability, business peak associations became more active on a range of policy issues. Industries that had not seen value in such forms of political organisation in the past established them. Australian mining companies created the Australian Mining Industry Council (AMIC) to lobby the government over changes in the exchange rate, wages and bud…
Cartels, imperial relations and Australian shipping policy in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1914-1939
Sir Otto Niemeyer, the bankrupt state and the federal system
One of the main myths about Australian political and economic history relates to the intervention in economic policy making in the 1930s by the Bank of England through the mission of Sir Otto Niemeyer. This article argues that Niemeyer's advice was not heeded. Rather, parallels between what he demanded and the Premiers’ Plan were largely confined to the level of rhetoric as part of a strategy to regain access to the London capital market. State e…
Immigration and Unemployment in Australia
This article is presented in two parts. The first contains a discussion of Australia's migration programme, its different categories and changes in intakes. It also deals with the contribution made by immigration to the size of the labour force.... The second part deals with the effect of immigration on the unemployment rate and concludes that its effect is negligible or, at best, slightly positive.... Against this background the paper discusses …
The Australian Role in Britain's Return to the Gold Standard
The part played by Australian policy-makers in the UK's return to the gold standard in I925 has been largely ignored. It receives no consideration in biographies of Montagu Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England.' Indeed, Sayers has argued that decisions by Australia and other dominions to return to gold were the result of British encouragement and leadership.2 In his important monograph on the subject Moggridge documented the process of Bri…
The political economy of United States' investment in Australia
Ideology, rhetoric and Liberal Party policies on public enterprises
The political economy of Cuban dependence on the Soviet Union
Social capital, interdependence and Japanese multi-nationals
‘I Believe in Australia’
A Touch of Midas’
Modernity, legitimation and the Soviet imperial state
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Pat McGowan, (eds) Foreign Policy USA/USSR, Beverly Hills, Sage Publications, 1982, pp. 320. $25, $12.50 (paper) David Holloway The Soviet Union and the Arms Race, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1983, pp. 211. $28.50 T. H. Rigby and Ferenc Feher (eds) Political Legitimation in Communist States, London and Bas‐ingstoke, Macmillan, 1982, pp. 177. $20 George W. Breslauer Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Bui…
Pastoral Capital and the State in Australia, 1960–72
Manufacturers and the State in Australia, 1960–72
W.M. Hughes, the imperial wool purchase and the Pastoral Lobby, 1914–20
Work Practices, Technological Change and Sheet Metal Workers, 1929-1970
This article surveys the history of work practices in sheet metal work from 1929 to 1970. It focuses on the role of internal labour markets and union power in sustaining such work practices as seniority, the strict allocation of work according to job classifications, and the regulation of working time. Internal labour markets were structured by formal and informal rules which made it difficult for employers to transfer employees or to recruit fro…
The wool industry and the 1936 trade diversion dispute between Australia and Japan
Business, empire and the United Australia party
This article presents an analysis of the political economy of the United Australia Party (UAP) mainly while in government There are discussions of decisions and policies relating to tariffs, the exchange rate and trade relations with the United Kingdom. Through four case studies of policy‐making it deals with two interrelated aspects of this political economy. The first aspect focuses on conflicts between key business groupings and how UAP govern…
The Myth of Wartime Harmony and Conflict in the Australian Pastoral Industry, 1939–1945
W.M. Hughes, the Commonwealth Line and the British Shipping Cartel, 1914–1927
The origins of a number of important public enterprises can be traced to the First World War. This article deals with the Commonwealth Line and traces the factors which led to its creation by government and those that caused its privatization. The article traces the history of the Commonwealth Line from its formation as a desperate measure to overcome a wartime shipping shortage that was preventing the transportation of vital primary products, es…
Shifting the burden
S.M. Bruce, Imperial Relations and War Finance, 1939–1943
This article deals with bargaining between Australia and the United Kingdom over some main aspects of wartime finance. Australian politicians and administrators took advantage of the wartime emergency to persuade the British to provide cheap loans with which the Australian government met its overseas military spending. The British Treasury also had to guarantee the preservation of Australia's sterling balances in the context of lend‐lease arrange…
People or money? Empire settlement and British emigration to Australia, 1919–34
Between 1919 and 1934 a major wave of immigration took place from the United Kingdom to Australia. It has been estimated that over 206,000 out of the 280,000 immigrants were assisted with free passage grants and loans. They were expected to participate in rural settlement schemes and other development projects. An examination of the process reveals that the governments in Australia and Britain were pursuing different aims. The main objective of t…
Reflections on the life and work of W. K. Hancock
(1990). Reflections on the life and work of W. K. Hancock. The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 314, pp. 213-226
The Shearing Labour Process, 1900-1914
Recent studies of the Australian Workers' Union ( AWU) and working class politics in the pastoral industry have concentrated on the unions, its leaders, and on the property ownership of its members. This has obscured social relations of production between employers and employees within the labour process. Nor has enough attention been given to the position of pastoral workers as persons who do not own the means of production but work for wages.1 …
British administrators, Australian federalism and economic policy in the 1930s
This article is a contribution to the study of the relationship between transnational linkages between nation states and federal forms of government. It addresses two main bodies of political science literature. The first deals with the power of multinational corporations and transnational agencies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. One group of authors highlights the asymmetric power relations between dominant adva…
“A Pound of Flesh”
Coldly received’
Protection, imperial preference, and Australian conservative politics, 1923–39
(1992). Protection, imperial preference, and Australian conservative politics, 1923–39. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-87
The Eastern & Australian Steamship Company and the Shipping Dispute between Australia and Japan, 1936–39
(1992). The Eastern & Australian Steamship Company and the Shipping Dispute between Australia and Japan, 1936–39. Business History: Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 50-68
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