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ABC The Drum
In pursuit of a values driven foreign policy, Australia isn't blindly following the United States, it's taking the lead. Visiting scholar Adam Lockyer says becoming an enhanced partner of NATO is only...
The Conversation
Joan Rivers, an acerbic, rasping performer, was one of the hardest-working people in show business. Lecturer Rodney Taveira memorialises the comedian, who died yesterday at the age of 81.
The allegations of US impotence in the world are not uncommon in the post-war era
US News & World Report
Jennifer Lawrence and a number of other female celebrities were this week targeted by hackers seeking naked photos stored online. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says technological and legal safeguards...
Australian Financial Review
Desires to end the killing of innocent people in Iraq are understandable, says research associate Tom Switzer. Nonetheless, he warns, there is a danger America's humanitarian mission will become a wider...
Fairfax Media
Nations across the G20 are looking to boost productivity in pursuit of greater global GDP gains. Alliance 21 contributor Michael Smith says the key might be energy and resource efficiency.
The Australian
As Russia encroaches further upon Ukrainian territory, the United States grows more concerned about Russian expansionism. Research associate Tom Switzer argues that the West has a choice to make in how it...
Fairfax Media
Research associate Tom Switzer says US President Barack Obama was right to order limited air strikes to stop jihadists from carrying out a genocide in northern Iraq. But that does not mean the...
US News & World Report
Will new US educational guidelines expose students to a "dark retelling of US history"? Research associate Nicole Hemmer explains why conservative critiques threaten to turn the teaching of American...
Australian Financial Review
Australian ties with the United States are closer than ever, but the nation's view of China has shifted dramatically in recent times. Research associate Tom Switzer says the reaction to two...
ABC The Drum
Middle Eastern extremist group the Islamic State is the greatest threat to international peace and security since al Qaeda was at its deadly peak. Visiting professor Adam Lockyer and Macquarie University...
The Age
Throughout its history, America has seen far too many events like those over the past week-and-a-half in Ferguson, Missouri. Lecturer Thomas Adams says the problem lies in a politics incapable of changing the...
US News & World Report
The shooting of an unarmed black man by police in Ferguson, Missouri, has stoked both civil rights and civil liberties concerns. The crisis, says research associate Nicole Hemmer...
Like the ideology undergirding Occupy Wall Street, Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century exhibits a marked lack of historical consciousness and complexity, writes lecturer Thomas Adams. In this essay, he argues...
The Wall Street Journal
Crippled by debt at home and distracted by crises in Gaza, Ukraine, and the Middle East, America is feared to be no longer able to exercise leadership in the Asia–Pacific...
ABC The Drum
The killing of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, Missouri, has spurred protests and national attention. Lecturer David Smith says the heavy-handed response from law enforcement has shown Americans the...
The Conversation
Few people expected the opening shots of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign to take aim at the Obama administration. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says the former secretary of state's critique is based on...
ABC The Drum
Barack Obama's approach to the Middle East has been criticised by both the left and right. Research associate Tom Switzer says Obama's cautionary tactics in the Middle East did not create...
US Studies Centre CEO Dr Bates Gill has contributed the chapter "Untapped Trilateralism: Common Economic and Security Interests of the European Union, the United States and China" to a new book exploring the economic...
The former prime minister is right to question the bipartisan complacency about the US–Australia alliance, but he overstates his case for abandonment
