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Research associate Nicole Hemmer in US News and World Report.
Alliance 21 director James Brown in The Saturday Paper.
Visiting scholar Adam Lockyer in The Conversation.
Research associate Tom Switzer at The Australian.
Australians should be attuned to how the debates between American presidential candidates may shape the foreign and defence policies of the next US President and a new US administration in 2017. Five months...
Research associate Nicole Hemmer at the US News & World Report.
Quarterly Essay
It is easier to counter Islamic State on the battlefield than it is to defeat them in the arena of public perception. Nevertheless, says Alliance 21 director James Brown, liberal democracies...
The University of Nottingham China Policy Institute
The US and China have never been close, writes CEO Bates Gill, but Xi Jinping's visit to Washington coincides with many new and troubling fissures in...
US News & World Report
Pope Francis's arrival in the United States coincides with an increased interest among high-profile liberals in discussing their faith, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
The Lowy Interpreter
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shares a determination with his predecessor Tony Abbott that the US alliance remains the cornerstore of Australian foreign policy, writes lecturer Malcolm Jorgensen.
The Strategist
Research associate Malcolm Jorgensen says that the US and Australia's push into Syria in the fight against Islamic State helps resolve questions of international law, rather than exacerbating them.
US News & World Report
The Republican presidential contest now pivots solely on immigration, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
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...
East Asia Forum
There's nothing new about presidential candidates fearmongering over China. PhD candidate Elizabeth Ingleson says President Barack Obama should disregard Republican calls to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping's official state visit.
US News & World Report
Conservatives like Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis have long-borrowed civil rights-era protest tactics and rhetoric, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
The Strategist
The Australian government is likely to join the US-led air campaign in Syria against Islamic State. Research associate Tom Switzer, however, urges skepticism and caution.
The Australian
Bestselling author Naomi Klein argues nations must abandon capitalism to fight climate change. Research associate Tom Switzer says that the experience of the United States and other countries shows instead that capitalism...
ABC The Drum
If Hillary Clinton is to lose the "frontrunner" tag for the Democratic presidential nomination, it will boil down to just one issue: likeability, says research associate John Barron.
The debate over the Russia–Ukraine crisis has its genesis in the arguments over NATO expansion in the 1990s
Sandy Burgoyne, Director of the Future Cities Collaborative, was invited to share with academics and practioners the innovative work of the Future Cites Program at the S3 Singapore Sustainability Symposium held in Nanyang Technological...
