Girling, John (Lawrence Scott)
GIRLING, John (Lawrence Scott)
GIRLING, John (Lawrence Scott). British/Australian, b. 1926. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Politics/Government, Third World. Career: Member, Research Staff, Foreign Office, London, 1952-66; Sr. Fellow, Dept. of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1966-92; Fellow, Wilson Center, Washington, DC, 1987; Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore, 1993. Publications: People's War: Conditions and Consequences in China and Southeast Asia, 1969; America and the Third World: Revolution and Intervention, 1980; The Bureaucratic Polity in Modernising Societies: Similarities, Differences and Prospects in the Asean Region, 1981; Thailand: Society and Politics, 1981; Capital and Power: Political Economy and Social Transformation, 1987; Myths and Politics in Western Societies: Evaluating the Crisis of Modernity in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, 1993; Interpreting Development: Capitalism, Democracy, and The Middle Class in Thailand, 1996; Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy, 1997; France: Political and Social Change, 1998. Address: Appt. 33, 33 rue Achille Viadieu, 31400 Toulouse, France. Online address: [email protected]