Professor of Political Science, University of Sydney
Writes on state capacity and its contribution to innovation and economic development, with application to East Asian and Euroopean cases, and most recently, the United States. Her books include: The Myth of the Powerless State; States and Economic Development; Creating Capitalism; States in the Global Economy (ed); Developmental Politics in Transition (ed, in press). Her forthcoming book Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism examines the national security roots of U.S. high-tech hegemony.
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Visiting appointments at the LSE, EUI, Rome University (La Sapienza), Aarhus University, UCLA, Cornell University, Academia Sinica, Seoul National University.
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