The Australian Financial Review

Barack Obama's lack of attention to the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact in his State of the Union address portends poorly for his ability to bring recalcitrant members of...

The Australian

As an address written with a domestic audience in mind, the 2015 State of the Union had little to reassure international observers that the rank among America's priorities. Nevertheless, says lecturer...

The Sydney Morning Herald

After Republican victories in the midterms, Barack Obama looked set to spend the remainder of his term as a lame duck. Editor of the Centre's blog Jonathan Bradley says the...

The Age

This year's State of the Union address was more about politics than policy, despite the president's frequent assertion that ideas and not partisanship should guide the national debate, writes lecturer Sarah Graham.

The Conversation

President Barack Obama used his second-last State of the Union address to outline a vision of hopeful yet limited liberalism, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.

ABC The Drum

Barack Obama's State of the Union address was less about trying to sway the Republican Congress over the next two years and more about providing a map for America's future...

This address by The Hon. Julie Bishop MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs was delivered at a USSC Alliance 21 event at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

The Alliance between the United...

US News & World Report

Can Mitt Romney successfully transform himself in a third run for the presidency? It's a long shot but stranger things have happened, especially in Republican primaries, says research...

Fairfax Media

Despite strident defences of free speech in the aftermath of the murders at French magazine Charlie Hebdo, research associate Nicole Hemmer and Tom Switzer say too many in the West support...

The Conversation

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear four cases about same-sex marriage, paving the way for the court to finally consider whether or not same-sex marriage is constitutional. Lecturer Rebecca...

ABC The Drum

The Castros are not getting any younger and America now has a prime opportunity to secure its interests in Cuba — that is, if Republicans don't stand in Barack Obama's...

The Sydney Morning Herald

Research associate Tom Switzer says it's madness for the US and its allies to isolate an angry, nuclear-armed great power with legitimate security interests in its sphere of influence.

US News & World Report

Last week, Barack Obama announced a new policy initiative: free tuition for two years of community college. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says Republicans should respond to Obama's proposal by pushing...

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...

Sydney Morning Herald

It's been four months since President Obama set out to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State, but as research associate Tom Switzer writes, the conflict has only revealed the...

US News & World Report

Former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee announced recently that he would quit his Fox News program to consider a presidential run. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says his bid should...

The mission sounds like a noble cause, but this road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions

The Sydney Morning Herald

Afghan forces are now in charge of providing stability across Afghanistan, pushing the US-led military operation into a new phase. Director of the Centre's Alliance 21 project James Brown says...

US News & World Report

New York police officers have been resisting efforts from Mayor Bill de Blasio to reform the force's practices. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says criticizing police procedures does not equate...

Most Midwesterners think that manufacturing has gone away — to the Sun Belt or Mexico or China. It hasn’t.