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As mayhem spreads across Iraq, the British people and their institutions have paid a huge price for the intervention
Fairfax Media
With the 2016 presidential election still two years away, is predicting the contenders in the contest this early a fool's errand? Associate professor Brendon O'Connor says history offers a guide to whom...
The Lowy Interpreter
Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop has pushed back against comments in Brisbane by US President Barack Obama. Research associate James Curran looks at the history of how Australian and...
The Guardian
Pundits have criticised Prime Minister Tony Abbott for his inaction on climate at the G20, but research associate Tom Switzer says US domestic politics highlight the wisdom of the Australia leader's actions.
US News & World Report
Republicans might not like Barack Obama's planned executive action on immigration reform, but research associate Nicole Hemmer says the President is on safe ground legally, politically, and morally.
US News & World Report
Two years out from the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton's nomination as the Democratic Party's candidate seems all but inevitable. Research associate Nicole Hemmer warns that an uncontested race...
The Russian separatists who downed a Malaysian passenger jet are rightly in the global doghouse. But what caused the Ukraine crisis that sparked the tragedy?
Fairfax Media
With falling unemployment, a growing economy, and a deficit in decline, Americans should be in an upbeat mood. Research associate Tom Switzer explains why President Barack Obama's party suffered voter wrath at...
The Australian
During the 1970s, Richard Nixon gave serious consideration to ending the United States' alliance with Australia. Nevertheless, says research associate James Curran, Gough Whitlam ultimately engendered a new respect for Australia...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Successive Australian governments have ignored American mistakes in foreign policy during the Vietnam and Iraq Wars and beyond, says associate professor Brendon O'Connor. Australia, he argues, has too often...
US News & World Report
After Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in a landslide in 1964, analysts prematurely declared the death of conservatism. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says the Republican Party's successful shift right...
ABC The Drum
Republicans could make history in the US midterm elections, with control of the Senate and the most House seats they've had since 1928. But few people believe this will do...
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.
The Australian
Earlier this month Janet Yellen, the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, set off a firestorm of controversy over a speech that touched on rising economic inequality in the US. Lecturer Thomas...
US News & World Report
Fifty years on from "A Time for Choosing," the speech that launched Ronald Reagan's career as a politician and a conservative icon, research associate Nicole Hemmer examines what the...
IPA Review
For today's Democrats, Clintonian "triangulation" and the "Third Way" are out. Research associate Tom Switzer takes a look at Elizabeth Warren, the junior Massachusetts senator who is the toast of America's progressive...
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...
US News & World Report
The Supreme Court's decision to allow a Texas voter ID law to proceed will add another requirement to the many making it more difficult for Americans to vote...
