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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...
The Australian
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's tough talk in response to Vladimir Putin reflects public sentiment. But research associate Tom Switzer says banning Russia's president from the G20 would be counterproductive to the...
ABC The Drum
Visiting scholar Adam Lockyer argues that any contribution Australia makes to US fight against the Islamic State terror group is largely symbolic. As such, Australians should consider whether the risk of...
Society for US Intellectual History
In 2010, libertarian writer Julian Sanchez said movement conservatives had fallen victim to a system of "epistemic closure." Research associate Nicole Hemmer explores why the roots of this malady...
US News & World Report
A district judge has struck down a Texas voter-ID law struck down that she said unfairly targeted minorities. Research associate Nicole Hemmer says the decision shows it's time for...
Hillary Clinton’s account of her time as secretary of state is no companion to Kissinger’s Diplomacy or Thatcher’s Statecraft
US News & World Report
Republicans say their push for tighter regulations governing abortion providers is designed to protect the health and safety of the women using their services. Instead, research associate Nicole...
