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While Donald Trump is campaigning, Mike Pence is doing the president's job, writes research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News.
Inviting Milo was a symptom of what ails conservatism. And disinviting him is no cure, writes research associate Nicole Hemmer for Politico Magazine.
Centre CEO Professor Simon Jackman gave a speech as part of the Senate Occasional Lecture series at Parliament House in Canberra. He used his address to look at populism, discontent and Australian-US relations...
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis is emerging as an alternative and status quo power centre in Donald Trump's administration, with a capacity to influence the White House's Asia policy in reassuring ways.
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In the last years of their existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs...
The Trump Administration has shown a surprising amount of clarity on its intentions for trade policy in the Asia-Pacific. During the presidential campaign, Trump outlined a series of trade initiatives which, in comparison...
The North Korean missile test over the weekend has emphasised the point President Obama reportedly made to President-elect Trump shortly after his electoral success: North Korea should be at the top of the...
All eyes were on the US federal courts as justices first stayed, then refused to reinstate, the Trump administration's travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries. For Americans who fear the new administration is...
Republicans say Australia is the United States' strongest ally, according to a recent survey featured in the New York Times. Yet Republicans in the US House of Representatives have been conspicuously absent in...
Following the presidential election, then President Obama warned the incoming commander-in-chief that North Korea should be at the top of his to-do list. Obama’s policy of ‘strategic patience’ had run its course. Since...
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report.
An opinion piece by senior fellow Tom Switzer for ASPI's The Strategist.
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for Vox.
Commentary from research fellow Dougal Robinson published on The Interpreter.
US President Donald Trump has hinted at a more muscular US foreign policy in Asia–Pacific. In tweets and speeches since the election, he has adopted a hard-line on North Korea and his Asia...
Defence Secretary James Mattis was in Asia last weekend for his first trip abroad since taking over the Pentagon. His decision to visit South Korea and Japan before other US allies was a deliberate...
Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report.
Chief executive Professor Simon Jackman writes for The Australian Financial Review.
Australia has passed its first test with the Trump Administration. The refugee resettlement deal announced by the Turnbull government and Obama administration after November's presidential election seemed at odds with the Trump administration’s controversial...
How would we know a good defence strategy if we saw one? The Asian Century is challenging many of the traditional assumptions at the heart of Australian defence policy and strategy. Defence scholars...
