School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Dr Frank Cain

Dr Frank Cain

Visiting Fellow

Email: f.cain@adfa.edu.au

Professional Background
Research Interests / Projects
Publications
Books

Economic Statecraft and the Cold War:European Responses to the US Trade Embargo, Routledge, London, 2007, pp. 221.

Jack Lang and the Great Depression, Scholarly Press, Melbourne, 2005, pp.382.

Arming the Nation, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra, 1999, pp.152.

Menzies in War and Peace, (ed) Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 179.

ASIO an Unofficial History, Frank Cass, London, 1994, 292.

The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia, Spectrum, Melbourne, 1993, pp.300.

The Origins of Political Surveillance in Australia, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, pp. 305.

Terrorism & Intelligence in Australia: A History of ASIO & National Serveillance, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd

Refereed Chapters in Books and Refereed Articles Published in Academic Journals

 'Computers and the Cold War: United States Restrictions on the Export of Computers to the Soviet Union and Communist China' in Journal of Contemporary History, London, Vol 40 January 2005, pp. 114-147.

 'NSW Labor Governments at the Hands of Their Hostile British Governors' in G. Patmore, J. Shields, N Balnave (eds) The The Past is Before Us, .National Labour  History Conference. University of Sydney, 2005, pp. 63-70.

 'Australian Intelligence Organisations and the Law' in Counter-Terrorism Laws, UNSW Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2004, 
pp. 296-318.

 'Australian Labour and Globalisation: Sir Otto Niemeyer's Bank of England Mission to Australia' in Transforming our: Labour: Work, Struggle and Change, Labour History Conference, Griffith University, 2003, pp. 55-61.  

 Responses to the Defections of Gouzenko In Canada and Petrov In Australia' in E. Macmillan and F McKenzie (eds) rties Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century, University Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2003, pp 183-206.

 A History of Intelligence in Post-World War ii Australia', in L Jenssen and O. Riste, (eds) Intelligence in the Cold War, Organisation, Role and International Cooperation, 2001, Norwegian Institute of Defence Studies, 2001,  pp. 115-133.

 'Jack Lang's 1930s Government: The First 150 Days', in Work, Organisation, Struggle, Labour History Conference, Australian National University, 2001, pp. 78-86.

 'Jack Lang, the Loan Council and the Bruce/Page Government', in R. Markey and R. Hood, Labour and Community, Labour History Conference,  University of Wollongong, 1999, pp. 59-64.

 'Perceptions and Relations Between the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of Australia',  in S. Hatano and H. Kleinschmidt (eds)  Tokyo Colloquium on Political Interactions Between Asia and Europe in the Twentieth Century,  1997, University of Tsukuba, Japan 1997,  pp. 139-149.

 'The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia and the USA: A Comparative Study of Some of the Ideas of IWWsm',
in G. Parsons, The 'Old Left' and Australian History, Macquarie University, 1997,  pp. 42-66.

'The Pacific War: Why Did the Menzies Government Not See it Coming? in Menzies at Peace and War, Frank Cain (ed) DSC, Allen and Unwin with the Defence Studies Centre, Canberra,1997, pp. 1-22.

  "The US-Led Trade Embargo on China:  The Origins of CHINCOM 1947-1952" in Journal of Strategic Studies, July 1995, pp. 33-53.

 'Aspects of the Free Trade/Tariff Debate in Victoria 1857-1881' in The Journal of Australian Political Economy, pp. 87- 103, 1995.

 'The Making of a Cold War Victim', in Overland, No. 134, Autumn  pp. 60-66, 1994.

 'Exporting the Cold War: British Responses to the USA's Establishment of COCOM, 1947-1951', in Contemporary History, London, July 1994, pp. 501-522

 'Some European Reactions to the Introduction by America of Controls on East-West Trade and the Establishment of COCOM, 1947-1952', in, Herausgegeben von Gustav Schmidt (ed.), Ost-West Beziehungem: Konfrontation und Détente 1945-1989,  Universitätsverlag Dr N. Brockmeyer, Bochum, Germany,  pp. 473-492, 1993. 

 'The Right to Know: ASIO, Historians and the Australian Parliament' in Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, January pp. 87-101, 1993.

 'Australia and the History of the Comintern' in Labour History, No. 64, May
 pp. 135-138,1993.

'Dr Evatt and his Times'  in E. Atkin and B. Evans (eds), Seeing Red: The Communist Party Dissolution Act and Referendum 1951: Reasons for Constitutional Reform,  Wild and Woolley, Sydney,  pp 187-201, 1992.

 'The Australian Russian Relationship Over Two World Wars: Some Aspects', in Judith Smart and Tony Wood (eds), An Anzac Muster: War and Society in Australia and New Zealand 1914-1918 and 1939-1945,  Monash Publications in History, Clayton,  pp 163-175, 1992.

 'The Industrial Workers of the World and the ALP in Sydney 1905-1917' in J.D. Bosca (ed), Century of Social Change, Pluto Press, Sydney,  pp 48-68.
1992.
 'Accountability and the Australian Security Organization: A Brief History'  in A Stuart Farson, David Stafford and Wesley K. Wark (eds) Security and Intelligence in a Changing World, Frank Cass. London,  pp. 104-125, 1991.

 'Writings on Intelligence in Australia'  in Intelligence and National Security, London, Vol. 6, No. 1, January  pp 242-253, 1991.

 'All the Way to Vietnam:  The Politics of Threat'  in Arena, Winter, 95,  pp. 115-130, 1991.

 'Some Aspects of Australian-Soviet Relations From 1800 to 1960' in Journal of Communist Studies, London, Vol. 7, No. 4, December pp. 501-521.
1991.

'ASIO and the Australian Labour Movement - An Historical Perspective' in Labour History,  May  pp 1-16, 1990.

 'Australia's Secret Intelligence Agencies' in Island Magazine,  No. 39, Winter,  pp 41-47, 1989.

 'An Aspect of Post-War Australian Relations with UK and the US:  Missiles, Spies and Disharmony' in Australian Historical Studies, April,  pp.186-202, 1989.

 'Political Surveillance in Australia 1916-1988:  Administrative Aspects' in J.J. Eddy and J.R. Nethercote (eds.) From  Colony to Colonisers:  Studies in Australian Administrative History, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney,  pp168-18, 1988.

 'Opposition to the Great War in New South Wales:  The Case of the Industrial Workers of the World' in Royal Australian Historical Journal, December, pp. 201-212, 1988.

 'Missiles and Mistrust: US Intelligence Responses to British and Australian Missile Research' in Intelligence and National Security, October,  pp.5-22., 1988.

 'Jack Lang and the Great Depression' in Traditions for Reform  in New South Wales, Pluto Press, Sydney, pp.62-78, 1987.

'Menzies' War on the Communist Party 1949-1951' in Cold War in Australia 1945-1960,   A. Curthoys and J. Merritt, (eds) Allen and Unwin, Sydney,  (with F. Farrell), pp. 109-134, 1984.

 'The Industrial Workers of the World: Aspects of its Suppression in Australia' 1916-1919' in Labour History, (Sydney) May 1982 No. 42, pp. 54-62, 1982.

Referred and Published Conference Paper

?Das US-Handelsembargo und Europa? in Bernd Greiner/Christian Th. M?ller/Claudia Weber (Hg) ?konomie im Kalten Kreig, Band 4, Hamburger Edition, Institut fur Sozialforschung, 2010, pp. 438-456.