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Centre lecturer Dr Gorana Grgic reviews Andrew Rojecki's book America and the Politics of Insecurity for The RUSI Journal.
This special issue of the Australasian Journal of American Studies, edited by the Centre's Rodney Taveira and Aaron Nyerges, arose out of a conference held at the US Studies Centre in June 2015...
The United States Studies Centre's James Brown is the author of Quarterly Essay 62, looking to history, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the legacy of the Iraq...
This article by Centre lecturer Dr Rebecca Sheehan published in Australian Feminist Studies examines Germaine Greer’s reception in the United States in 1971, the year that The Female Eunuch was first published there. Using hundreds...
This essay by Centre lecturer Dr Rodney Taveira examines the loop of contemporary American literary production and reception. Firstly, Taveira reads Nam Le's 'Meeting Elise,' from The Boat (2008), Le's much-awarded collection of short stories set...
Following the Second World War, the United States would become the leading 'neoliberal' proponent of international trade liberalisation. Yet for nearly a century before, American foreign trade policy was dominated by extreme economic...
Religious freedom is a foundational value of the United States, but not all religious minorities have been shielded from religious persecution in America. This book by USSC academic Dr David Smith examines why...
The Handbook of the Politics of China is a comprehensive resource on the latest research on Chinese politics. US Studies Centre visiting professor Dr Bates Gill contributed the chapter "Admiration, ambivalence, antipathy: the...
Andrea Koch, Alex McBratney and Budiman Minasny investigate the viability of a call by the French Government in the lead up to COP21 to increase carbon in the global soil stock by 4...
Dr Rodney Taveira has contributed this chapter to Fiona Peters and Rebecca Gordon Stewart's book, Crime Uncovered: Anti-Hero.
American engagement with international law (IL) is regularly criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in “exceptionalism.” That raises a puzzling question: Why is American international legal policy framed by commitment...
The debate over the Russia–Ukraine crisis has its genesis in the arguments over NATO expansion in the 1990s
The 91-year-old former secretary of state delivers an impressive coda to a career that has had more than its share of distinction
The primary challenge to the pivot to Asia comes from other foreign-policy priorities.
This essay by Marc-William Palen seeks to trace the many—and often conflicting—economic ideological interpretations of the transatlantic abolitionist impulse. In particular, it explores the contested relationship between free-trade ideology and transatlantic abolitionism, and...
The Australian–US relationship today is so comfortable it's hard to imagine a time when the two nations considered abandoning their alliance. Former Australian minister for foreign affairs Bob Carr reviews a new book by research...
There is much more to the story of Australia simply following the Mother Country into battle
Marco Rubio is trying to unite the four different factions of modern American conservatism.
A successful agreement with Iran will have repercussions far beyond nuclear proliferation.
When George W. Bush left office as one of the most unpopular presidents in modern times, he predicted he would be vindicated by history. In this review of James Mann's account of the...
