EDITORIAL Empires everywhere, it seems, are on the move again. Georgia and Iran may be much closer than we think and then there's China and the US writes ALISON CADDICK
FEATURES Obama's gearshift into a moreconventional politics reminded people of what they should have already known — that he is innovating tactically within a standard political framework. What is of interest is what the success of his strategy tells us about America today argues
GUY RUNDLE
FEATURES While Israel naturally wants to preserve its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East, it is clear that hysteria over Iran’s nuclear development is being deliberately whipped up to justify an attack which both the United States and Israel want anyway argues JEREMY SALT
EDITORIAL The possibility of neo-liberalism becoming a basis for a new approach to Indigenous policy has been gaining momentum for some time now, especially through the advocacy of Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson. But advocating the neo-liberal way of life as a basis for an Indigenous future is seriously flawed writes JOHN HINKSON
ESSAY From the ‘War on Terror’ to Malaya and Pakistan the language of ‘emergency’ has been used to suspend legal principles. Closer to home, legislation enacted in August 2007 has profoundly changed the treatment of large numbers of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory in Australia argues DESMOND MANDERSON
ESSAY Bruno Latour’s Actor Network Theory refuses to recognize any kind of qualitative difference in kind between, for example, face-to-face communication and extended forms of virtual communication, or that there is no ontological distinction that might be found in the difference between gift and commodity exchange argues SIMON COOPER
