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Professor Linda Weiss

BA(Hons) Griff. PhD Lond. FASSA

Emeritus Professor

Email

linda.weiss@sydney.edu.au

Address

A02 - Social Sciences Building

The University of Sydney

Resume

Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

Linda Weiss is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Professor Emeritus in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. She has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and East Asia and has held visiting research and teaching appointments at EHESS (Paris), Sheffield (SPERI), Aarhus, UCLA, the LSE, the European University Institute, University of Rome, Academia Sinica, Seoul National University, and the Kyungnam Institute for Far Eastern Studies (Seoul). Her specialism is the comparative and international politics of economic development, with a focus on state capacity and public-private sector relations. Several of her books and articles on the topics of globalisation and state power, developmental states, and trade politics have appeared in seven different language translations. Her latest book, America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State (2014, Cornell University Press), examines the political economy of national security in the period spanning the Cold War to the present.

Research interests

Comparative Capitalism
International Political Economy
State Capacity and Globalisation
Developmental States
U.S. Innovation and Technology Policy
Financialisation of the US Corporation

Associations

Linda Weiss is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and maintains active research and teaching links with universities abroad. She is currently a member of Brazil’s Graduate Program advisory group at the School of Advanced Studies in Policy, Innovation, and Development Research (SPIDER) and of the International Advisory Board of Sheffield University’s Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI).

Selected publications

America Inc. Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State

(Cornell University Press, 2014)

Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Myth of the powerless state - Chinese translation

(UP Publications, 2007)

How To Kill A Country - Australia's Devastating Trade Deal With The United States

(Allen and Unwin, 2004)

States in the Global Economy:Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In.

(Cambridge University Press, 2003)

The Myth of the Powerless State

(Cornell University Press, 1998)

States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis

(Polity Press, 1995)

Publications

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Books

Weiss, L. (2014). America Inc. Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2007). Myth of the powerless state - Chinese translation. Hong Kong: UP Publications.
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E., Mathews, J. (2004). How To Kill A Country - Australia's Devastating Trade Deal With The United States. Sydney Australia: Allen and Unwin.
Weiss, L. (1998). The Myth of the Powerless State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Weiss, L., Hobson, J. (1995). States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Weiss, L. (1988). Creating Capitalism. Oxford & New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

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Edited Books

Weiss, L., Kyung-Sup, C., Fine, B. (2012). Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2003). States in the Global Economy:Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In.. Cambridge& New York.: Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2016). The developmental state in the late twentieth century. In Erik S. Reinert, Jayati Ghosh, Rainer Kattel (Eds.), Handbook of Alternative Theories in Economic Development, (pp. 637-650). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2014). The business of buying American: public procurement as trade strategy. In John Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz (Eds.), American Foreign Policy: theoretical essays, (pp. 155-170). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weiss, L. (2014). USA: U.S. Technology Procurement in the National Security Innovation System. In Veiko Lember, Rainer Kattel and Tarmo Kalvet (Eds.), Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy: International perspectives, (pp. 259-285). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
Kyung-Sup, C., Weiss, L., Fine, B. (2012). Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective. In Chang Kyung-Sup, Ben Fine and Linda Weiss (Eds.), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, (pp. 1-23). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2012). The Myth of the Neoliberal State. In Chang Kyung-Sup, Ben Fine and Linda Weiss (Eds.), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, (pp. 27-42). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2010). The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist? In G Morgan, J Campbell, C Crouch, O K Pedersen, R Whitely (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, (pp. 183-209). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2007). New Preface (The Myth of the Powerless State). The Myth of the Powerless State, (pp. 10-15). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Weiss, L. (2006). Infrastructural Power, Economic Transformation, and Globalisation. In John A Hall & Ralph Schroeder (Eds.), An Anatomy of Power: the social theory of Michael Mann, (pp. 167-186). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2004). Developmental States Before and After the Asian Crisis. In Jonathan Perraton, Ben Clift (Eds.), Where are National Capitalisms Now?, (pp. 154-168). United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weiss, L. (2003). Guiding Globalisation in East Asia: new roles for old developmental states. In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 245-270). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2003). Introduction: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In. In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 1-33). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2003). Is the state being 'transformed' by globalisation? In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 293-317). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L., Hobson, J. (2000). State Power and Economic Strength Revisited - What's so special about the Asian Crisis? In Richard Robinson, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya and Hyuk-Rae Kim (Eds.), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis, (pp. 53-74). London and NY: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Journals

Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2022). Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework. New Political Economy, 27(4), 697-712. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2021). Developmental State or Economic Statecraft? Where, Why and How the Difference Matters. New Political Economy, 26(3), 472-489. [More Information]
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2021). Economic statecraft at the frontier: Korea's drive for intelligent robotics. Review of International Political Economy, 28(1), 103-127. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2021). Re-emergence of Great Power Conflict and US Economic Statecraft. World Trade Review, 20(2), 152-168. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2018). Power paradox: how the extension of US infrastructural power abroad diminishes state capacity at home. Review of International Political Economy, 25(6), 779-810. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E., Mathews, J. (2006). Free Trade in Mad Cows: How to kill a beef industry. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 60(3), 376-399. [More Information]
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2006). From Player to Pawn: Howard's Trade Legacy. Australian Review of Public Affairs, on Line(Symposium Papers), 1-7.
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2006). Investing in Openness: The Evolution of FDI strategy in South Korea and Taiwan. New Political Economy, 11(1), 1-22. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2006). The business of buying American: Public procurement as trade strategy in the USA. Review of International Political Economy, 13(5), 701-724. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2005). Global Governance, National Strategies: How industrialised states make room to move under the WTO. Review of International Political Economy, 12(5), 723-749. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2005). L'Integrazione Globale Accresce il Potere Degli Stati. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Italian Journal of Political Science), 3, 397-416.
Weiss, L. (2005). Michael Mann, State Power, and the Two Logics of Globalisation. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 34(2), 529-541. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2005). The State Augmenting Effects of Globalisation. New Political Economy, 10(3), 345-353. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Crowston, J. (2004). 'Where There's A Will There's A Way': Governing The Market In Times Of Uncertainty. Issues and Studies, 40(1), 61-72.
Weiss, L. (2004). Gobernanza Global Estrategias Nacionales: Como Les Estados Hacen Espacio Para Desenvolverse Bajo La Omc. Documentos y Aportes en Admin Pub y Gestion Estatal, 32(2).
Weiss, L. (2001). Globalization and State Power. Occasional Papers, 21, 5-19.
Weiss, L. (2001). Guiding globalization: The renewal of developmental purpose in Korea and Taiwan. Occasional Papers, 21, 89-106.

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Conferences

Weiss, L. (2013). America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State. 5th Australian International Political Economy Workshop, Sydney, Australia.
Weiss, L. (2013). The Asian Developmental State: reexaminations and new departures. The Asian Developmental State, Hong Kong.
Weiss, L. (2013). The US innovation regime:built by the national security state, threatened by financialisation. Financial Institutions for Innovation and Development, Beijing, China: Ford Foundation and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Weiss, L. (2006). A Tale of Two Approaches to U.S. Trade Policy. International Studies Association, Annual Convention, USA: ISA.
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2006). The Mythology of US Trade Policy. International Studies Association, Annual Convention, USA: ISA.
Weiss, L. (2003). Institutional analysis in international political economy and its relevance for the study of international business. Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy Conference ANZIBA 2003, New Zealand: Anziba.

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Reference Works

Weiss, L. (2008). Globalisation. In Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (pp. online). Sydney: Oxford University Press.

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2022

Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2022). Explaining divergent National Responses to Covid-19: An Enhanced State Capacity Framework. New Political Economy, 27(4), 697-712. [More Information]

2021

Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2021). Developmental State or Economic Statecraft? Where, Why and How the Difference Matters. New Political Economy, 26(3), 472-489. [More Information]
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2021). Economic statecraft at the frontier: Korea's drive for intelligent robotics. Review of International Political Economy, 28(1), 103-127. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2021). Re-emergence of Great Power Conflict and US Economic Statecraft. World Trade Review, 20(2), 152-168. [More Information]

2018

Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2018). Power paradox: how the extension of US infrastructural power abroad diminishes state capacity at home. Review of International Political Economy, 25(6), 779-810. [More Information]

2016

Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2016). The developmental state in the late twentieth century. In Erik S. Reinert, Jayati Ghosh, Rainer Kattel (Eds.), Handbook of Alternative Theories in Economic Development, (pp. 637-650). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. [More Information]

2014

Weiss, L. (2014). America Inc. Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2014). The business of buying American: public procurement as trade strategy. In John Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz (Eds.), American Foreign Policy: theoretical essays, (pp. 155-170). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weiss, L. (2014). USA: U.S. Technology Procurement in the National Security Innovation System. In Veiko Lember, Rainer Kattel and Tarmo Kalvet (Eds.), Public Procurement, Innovation and Policy: International perspectives, (pp. 259-285). Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]

2013

Weiss, L. (2013). America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State. 5th Australian International Political Economy Workshop, Sydney, Australia.
Weiss, L. (2013). The Asian Developmental State: reexaminations and new departures. The Asian Developmental State, Hong Kong.
Weiss, L. (2013). The US innovation regime:built by the national security state, threatened by financialisation. Financial Institutions for Innovation and Development, Beijing, China: Ford Foundation and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2012

Weiss, L., Kyung-Sup, C., Fine, B. (2012). Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Kyung-Sup, C., Weiss, L., Fine, B. (2012). Introduction: Neoliberalism and Developmental Politics in Perspective. In Chang Kyung-Sup, Ben Fine and Linda Weiss (Eds.), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, (pp. 1-23). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2012). The Myth of the Neoliberal State. In Chang Kyung-Sup, Ben Fine and Linda Weiss (Eds.), Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond, (pp. 27-42). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]

2010

Weiss, L. (2010). The State in the Economy: Neoliberal or Neoactivist? In G Morgan, J Campbell, C Crouch, O K Pedersen, R Whitely (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis, (pp. 183-209). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2008

Weiss, L. (2008). Globalisation. In Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (pp. online). Sydney: Oxford University Press.

2007

Weiss, L. (2007). Myth of the powerless state - Chinese translation. Hong Kong: UP Publications.
Weiss, L. (2007). New Preface (The Myth of the Powerless State). The Myth of the Powerless State, (pp. 10-15). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

2006

Weiss, L. (2006). A Tale of Two Approaches to U.S. Trade Policy. International Studies Association, Annual Convention, USA: ISA.
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E., Mathews, J. (2006). Free Trade in Mad Cows: How to kill a beef industry. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 60(3), 376-399. [More Information]
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2006). From Player to Pawn: Howard's Trade Legacy. Australian Review of Public Affairs, on Line(Symposium Papers), 1-7.
Weiss, L. (2006). Infrastructural Power, Economic Transformation, and Globalisation. In John A Hall & Ralph Schroeder (Eds.), An Anatomy of Power: the social theory of Michael Mann, (pp. 167-186). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thurbon, E., Weiss, L. (2006). Investing in Openness: The Evolution of FDI strategy in South Korea and Taiwan. New Political Economy, 11(1), 1-22. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2006). The business of buying American: Public procurement as trade strategy in the USA. Review of International Political Economy, 13(5), 701-724. [More Information]
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E. (2006). The Mythology of US Trade Policy. International Studies Association, Annual Convention, USA: ISA.

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2005

Weiss, L. (2005). Global Governance, National Strategies: How industrialised states make room to move under the WTO. Review of International Political Economy, 12(5), 723-749. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2005). L'Integrazione Globale Accresce il Potere Degli Stati. Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica (Italian Journal of Political Science), 3, 397-416.
Weiss, L. (2005). Michael Mann, State Power, and the Two Logics of Globalisation. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 34(2), 529-541. [More Information]
Weiss, L. (2005). The State Augmenting Effects of Globalisation. New Political Economy, 10(3), 345-353. [More Information]

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2004

Weiss, L., Crowston, J. (2004). 'Where There's A Will There's A Way': Governing The Market In Times Of Uncertainty. Issues and Studies, 40(1), 61-72.
Weiss, L. (2004). Developmental States Before and After the Asian Crisis. In Jonathan Perraton, Ben Clift (Eds.), Where are National Capitalisms Now?, (pp. 154-168). United States: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weiss, L. (2004). Gobernanza Global Estrategias Nacionales: Como Les Estados Hacen Espacio Para Desenvolverse Bajo La Omc. Documentos y Aportes en Admin Pub y Gestion Estatal, 32(2).
Weiss, L., Thurbon, E., Mathews, J. (2004). How To Kill A Country - Australia's Devastating Trade Deal With The United States. Sydney Australia: Allen and Unwin.

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2003

Weiss, L. (2003). Guiding Globalisation in East Asia: new roles for old developmental states. In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 245-270). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2003). Institutional analysis in international political economy and its relevance for the study of international business. Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy Conference ANZIBA 2003, New Zealand: Anziba.
Weiss, L. (2003). Introduction: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In. In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 1-33). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2003). Is the state being 'transformed' by globalisation? In Linda Weiss (Eds.), States in the Global Economy: Bringing domestic institutions back in, (pp. 293-317). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, L. (2003). States in the Global Economy:Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In.. Cambridge& New York.: Cambridge University Press.

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2001

Weiss, L. (2001). Globalization and State Power. Occasional Papers, 21, 5-19.
Weiss, L. (2001). Guiding globalization: The renewal of developmental purpose in Korea and Taiwan. Occasional Papers, 21, 89-106.

2000

Weiss, L., Hobson, J. (2000). State Power and Economic Strength Revisited - What's so special about the Asian Crisis? In Richard Robinson, Mark Beeson, Kanishka Jayasuriya and Hyuk-Rae Kim (Eds.), Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis, (pp. 53-74). London and NY: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

1998

Weiss, L. (1998). The Myth of the Powerless State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

1995

Weiss, L., Hobson, J. (1995). States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis. Cambridge: Polity Press.

1988

Weiss, L. (1988). Creating Capitalism. Oxford & New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

Selected Grants

2002

Globalisation s Impact on the Government-Business Relationship: A Theoretical and Multi-Country Study, Thurbon E, Weiss L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

1999

East Asian transitions: sources, consequences, and outcomes of regime shift, Weiss L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grants (LRG)

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