Select Publications
Books
2022, Australia and the World: International Relations and Global Events since Federation, Melbourne Publishing Group, Melbourne, https://melbourne-publishing.myshopify.com/
,2022, John Curtin, Connor Court, Redland Bay, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/John-Curtin--David-Lee-Australian-Biographical-Monographs-16_p_490.html
,2020, Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Institution Builder, Connor Court, Redland Bay, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Stanley-Melbourne-Bruce-Institution-Builder--David-Lee_p_395.html
,2016, The Second Rush Mining and the Transformation of Australia, Connor Court Publishing Pty Limited
,2010, Stanley Melbourne Bruce Australian Internationalist, Bloomsbury Publishing
,2008, Every Assistance and Protection A History of the Australian Passport
,2008, Great White Fleet to Coral Sea Naval Strategy and the Development of Australian-United States Relations, 1900-1945
,2006, The Struggle for Trade Liberalisation in Agriculture Australia and the Cairns Group in the Uruguay Round
,2005, Australia and the World in the Twentieth Century
,1995, Search for Security The Political Economy of Australia's Postwar Foreign and Defence Policy, Allen & Unwin Australia
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Managing COVID', in Prasser S (ed.), Tragedy Without Triumph: The Coalition Office 2013-2022, Connor Court Publishing, Redland Bay, pp. 159 - 179, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/Tragedy-without-Triumph-The-Coalition-in-Office-2013-2022--Edited-by-Scott-Prasser_p_599.html
,2023, 'Menzies and Economic Management, 1950-1954', in Gorman Z (ed.), The Menzies Watershed Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Continuities 1943-1954, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, pp. 133 - 148, https://www.mup.com.au/books/the-menzies-watershed-hardback
,2023, 'Australia's Window to China in the Cold War: the Trade Commission in Hong Kong', in Onslow S; Maguire L (ed.), Consuls in the Cold War, Brill, Leiden, pp. 212 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004544192_011
,2023, 'Ambassadors and Key Issues', in Lowe D; Darian-Smith K (ed.), The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 41 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/aetajr.2022.03
,2023, 'Sir John Crawford and Japan, 1953-77', in Lowe D; Darian-Smith K (ed.), The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 97 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/aetajr.2022.05
,2023, 'Royal Commissions of the Bruce-Page Government, 1923-29', in Prasser S (ed.), New Directions in Royal Commissions & Public Inquiries: Do We Need Them?, Connor Court Publishing pty ltd, Redland Bay, pp. 27 - 50, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/NEW-DIRECTIONS-IN-ROYAL-COMMISSIONS-PUBLIC-INQUIRIES-Do-we-need-them-Edited-by-Scott-Prasser_p_520.html
,2022, 'Minerals and Resources Policy', in Prasser S; Clune D (ed.), The Whitlam Era: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy, Connor Court, Redland Bay, pp. 276 - 294
,2022, 'S.M. Bruce and R.G. Menzies Compared', in Ergas H; Pincus J (ed.), Power Politics and Parliament: Essays in Honour of John R. Nethercote, Connor Court Publishing, Redland Bay, pp. 317 - 325, https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/POWER-POLITICS-AND-PARLIAMENT-Essays-in-Honour-of-John-R-Nethercote_p_512.html
,2022, 'Mediating Middle Powers: Shaw, Grant, Curtis and Upton, 1972-83', in Lowe D; Meadows E (ed.), Rising Power and Changing People The Australian High Commission in India, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 137 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/RPCP.2022
,2019, 'Ryan, Edward John (Ted) (1916-1995)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ryan-edward-john-ted-27551/text34954
,2018, 'The Fraser Government, 1975-1983: Andrew Peacock and Tony Street', in Conley Tyler M; Robbins J (ed.), Ministers for Foreign Affairs 1972-83, Australian Institute of International Affairs, pp. 25 - 48, http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Ministers-for-Foreign-Affairs-1972-83.pdf
,2018, 'Sir John Latham and the League of Nations', in League of Nations : Histories, Legacies and Impact, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 83 - 99
,2017, 'Buying Back the Farm: the Whitlam Government and the Australianisation of mining', in Making Modern Australia: the Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne
,2016, 'The Career Diplomats: Sir Patrick Shaw, Alan Renouf and Sir Nicholas Parkinson, 1974-82', in Lowe D; Bridge C (ed.), Australia Goes to Washington: 75 Years of Australian Representation in the United States, 1940-2015, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 161 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AGTW.12.2016
,2016, 'Australia's ambassadors in Washington, 1982-1989', in Lee D; Lowe D; Bridge C (ed.), Australia Goes to Washington: 75 Years of Australian Representation in the United States, 1940-2015, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 183 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AGTW.12.2016
,2016, 'Conclusion', in Lee D; Lowe D; Bridge C (ed.), Australia Goes to Washington: 75 Years of Australian Representation in the United States, 1940-2015, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 255 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AGTW.12.2016
,2015, 'Sir John Crawford: Agriculture and Trade', in The Seven Dwarfs in the Age of the Mandarins, ANU Press, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/SDAM.07.2015
,2013, 'Australia and the Security Council', in Cotton J; Lee D (ed.), Australia and the United Nations, Longueville Books, pp. 66 - 104
,2011, 'Australia and Europe', in Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs, 2006-2010, Oxford University Press, Oxford
,2011, 'Historical Survey of Southeast Asian Borders', in The Borderlands of Southeast Asia: Geopolitics, Terrorism and Globalization, National Defense University Press, Washington, pp. 59 - 88
,2008, 'Dealing with Dragons', in Gare D; Ritter D (ed.), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, Thomson, South Melbourne
,2008, 'Stanley Bruce at the Wartime High Commission in London', in Diplomats at War: British and Commonwealth Diplomacy in Wartime, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 149 - 171
,2007, 'The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations', in Reid R; Mongan C; Brownrigg J (ed.), Echoes of Irish Australia: rebellion to republic: a collection of essays, St Clements Retreat and Conference Centre, Galong, pp. 222 - 232
,2002, 'Shaw, Sir Patrick (1913-1975)', in Ritchie J; Langmore D (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 16 1940-1980, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 220 - 221
,2001, 'Indonesia's Independence', in Goldsworthy D (ed.), Facing North. A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia Volume 1 1901 to the 1970s, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 134 - 170
,2001, 'Southeast Asian Conflicts', in Goldsworthy D (ed.), Facing North: 1901 to the 1970s, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 262 - 309
,2000, 'Lawson, John Norman (1897-1956)', in Ritchie J (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15 1940-1980, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 66 - 67
,2000, 'McCall, William Victor ((1908-1968)', in Ritchie J (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15 1940-1980, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 162 - 163
,1997, 'Defence Policy, 1945-1994: An Historical Perspective', in Malik M (ed.), Australia's Security in the 21st Century, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 8 - 31
,1997, 'The Origins of the Menzies Government's Policy on Indonesia's Confrontation of Malaysia', in Cain F (ed.), Menzies in War and Peace, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 72 - 99
,1996, 'Australia, the Great Powers and the Decolonisation of Laos', in Australia and the end of empires : the impact of decolonisation in Australia's near north, 1945-65, Deakin University Press, Geelong, pp. 173 - 187
,1995, 'The Cabinet', in Warhurst J; Prasser S; Nethercote J (ed.), The Menzies Era: A Reappraisal of Government Politics and Policy, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, pp. 123 - 137
,1993, 'Ashley, William Patrick ((1881-1958)', in Ritchie J (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 13 1940-1980, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp. 79 - 80
,1993, 'Cotton, Thomas Richard Worgan (1907-1970)', in Ritchie J (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography: 1940-1980, A-De, Melbourne University
,Edited Books
Lowe D; Lee D; Bridge C; Lee D, (eds.), 2016, Australia goes to Washington 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940–2015, ANU Press
Lee D; Reynolds W, (ed.), 2013, Australia and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1945-1974, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, ttps://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-28/volume-28-australia-and-the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty-1945-1974.aspx
Cotton J; Lee D, (ed.), 2012, Australia and the United Nations, Longueville Books & Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Sydney
Lee D; Bongiorno F; Bridge C, (eds.), 2010, The High Commissioners Australia's Representatives in the United Kingdom 1910-2010, Department of Foreign Affairs, Barton
Lee D; Doran S, (ed.), 2002, Australia and Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1972, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/volume-22/Pages/default.aspx
Lee D, (ed.), 1998, Australia and indonesia's Independence: the Transfer of Sovereignty, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-15/1949-indonesia-volume-15.aspx