How will Trump chaos affect Australia's alliance with the US?

19 May 2017

Professor James Curran
Professor of History, University of Sydney

USSC research associate Professor James Curran is quoted in this opinion piece by The Sydney Morning Herald's Peter Hartcher.

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Professor James Curran
Professor of History, University of Sydney
Professor James Curran teaches courses in Australian political culture and foreign policy, as well as the history of America's relations with the world. His latest 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. He was previously a research associate at the US Studies Centre.

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