15 April 2017

Fighting with America; Australia’s Defence Strategy

Professor James Curran
Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney
Dr Adam Lockyer
Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Macquarie University

In this article published in The Australian, Paul Monk reviews two books about Australian defence and security: Professor James Curran’s Fighting with America and Dr Adam Lockyer's Australia’s Defence Strategy. Both Curran and Lockyer are research associates at the US Studies Centre.

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Professor James Curran
Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney
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.
Dr Adam Lockyer
Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Macquarie University
Adam Lockyer is currently Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Macquarie University. Previously, Lockyer was a Research Fellow in Defence Studies at the University of New South Wales and, between 2010 and 2013, a lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy at the US Studies Centre.

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