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The Australian
The deployment of Australian military personnel to fight alongside the United States in the Middle East underlines the importance of the two nations' alliance. However, co-director of the Centre's Alliance 21 project Robert...
The publication of the Alliance 21 report, The Australia-US Partnership marks the completion of three years' research and collaboration at the highest levels of the Australia-US alliance. It sets out clear strategic guideposts...
History News Network
Have elites and the public gone their separate ways on foreign policy? Research associate Marc Palen says the work of early 20th century thinkers lends credence to the idea that the...
The Lowy Interpreter
In a rare television interview, former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard recently reflected on his decision to commit Australia to the US's 2003 Iraq invasion. Lecturer Malcolm Jorgensen says current Prime...
The Canberra Times
Last week, the community of San Diego set records for electricity consumption, yet none of the heatwave-induced demand was supplied through coal-generated power. Visiting scholar Tony Haymet explains how California offers...
History & Policy
Could imperialism arise from aristocracy, and, if the United States has no aristocracy, what might explain that nation's militarism? Research associate Marc Palen considers the lessons the history of imperialism might...
The Guardian
Developed countries were not properly prepared for the outbreak of ebola in west Africa, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Shalailah Medhora visited the CDC as part of the...
The Australian
Research associate Tom Switzer has found himself out of step with prevailing conservative opinion on the wisdom of the US-led mission against the Islamic State terrorist group. In this piece, he explains...
The tenth anniversary of the passing of America’s 40th president is a timely moment to examine the Reagan myth
A special edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Vol 14, Issue 1, 2014), edited by the US Studies Centre's Professor Roger Benjamin has been published. Entitled “American Art, Australian...
For all the 37th president’s flaws, he had an amazing ability to bounce back from serious setbacks
The Australian
The new US-led mission in Iraq sounds like a noble cause. But research associate Tom Switzer warns the fight against the Islamic State terror group is more complicated than the war's proponents...
ABC The Drum
Barack Obama's failure to put the rise of Islamic State in the context of the broader Sunni–Shia dispute was a crucial, and revealing, oversight in his address, writes research associate...
The Conversation
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wants to prevent Australians fighting alongside the Islamic State jihadist group from returning home. Visiting scholar Adam Lockyer and Macquarie University associate lecturer George Milad say when...
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.
