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...

PhD candidate David Howell reviews Sino–US Relations and the Role of Emotion in State Action: Understanding Post–Cold War Crisis Interactions by Taryn Shepperd.

Debunking the common laissez-faire myth surrounding turn-of-the-century American foreign relations allows for a reconceptualisation of American imperialism from 1890 to 1913. The Republican Party, the party of protectionism, found itself riven by internal...

How Republican lions set the scene for the triumph of movement conservatism in the United States

by Adam Lockyer and Peter K. Hatemi

Humans, despite the country they inhabit, the social structures they constitute, and the forms of governments they live under, universally possess political attitudes; that is, those attitudes...

A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is...

The 18th issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.

Sydney Morning Herald

Australia's politics might have been tumultuous over the past few years, but even in its most parlous state, the Gillard government was able to pass carbon tax legislation. By contrast...

Hillary Clinton’s account of her time as secretary of state is no companion to Kissinger’s Diplomacy or Thatcher’s Statecraft

A special edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Vol 14, Issue 1, 2014), edited by the US Studies Centre's Professor Roger Benjamin has been published. Entitled “American Art, Australian...

For all the 37th president’s flaws, he had an amazing ability to bounce back from serious setbacks