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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.
SpeechThe 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.
South China Morning Post
A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping China is eager to reassure its nieghbours, and the US in particular, that its intentions in the regions are benign. Visiting...
The President should admit he allowed the Islamic State caliphate to grow and he must be the one to destroy it
US News & World Report
Sony's decision to pull from theatres its film The Interview after a group called Guardians of Peace threatened to attack cinemas is understandable but disappointing, says research associate...
History Today
Barack Obama's move to normalise US–Cuba relations has been seen as a shift away from Cold War thinking, but research associate Marc Palen says the unequal balance between the countries has existed...
As the ranks of women jurists grow, women have largely disappeared from the consideration of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority
The lessons of this Gulf State’s tough but justifiable immigration policies
