James Curran was previously a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre. He is a Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney, specialising in the history of Australian and American foreign relations. His most recent book, Unholy Fury: Whitlam and Nixon at War, is a study of the Australia-US Alliance from the signing of the ANZUS treaty in 1951 to the early days of the Hawke government.
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