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Ukraine has shattered the Cold War settlement that the US would not exploit Russia’s strategic vulnerabilities
The Crimean incursion highlights the tensions between the right to self-determination and the principle of territorial integrity
The US–Australia intervention in Vietnam could have bought time for South-East Asia to contain the Communist threat
Centre research associate Marc Palen explores the long controversy surrounding the contested presidential election of 1876 between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. The subsequent compromise of 1877 held within it...
The Conversation
By keeping people of colour out of the frame, Mad Men not only repeats the historical marginalisation of those people, but also enacts their current marginalisation, writes lecturer Rodney Taveira.
The Australian
The government's highed education plan will send Australia down a one-way street towards a US system that is broken and increasingly unfixable, according to lecturer Thomas Adams.
US News & World Report
Sixty years after the historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, American schools are still disturbingly segregated. Addressing this issue needs to be a national priority, writes...
The Atlantic
The runaway success of A Choice Not an Echo and two others helped deliver Barry Goldwater the GOP presidential nomination in 1964, but can it happen again? Research associate Nicole Hemmer...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser's powerful new polemic Dangerous Allies is wrong to recommend the jettisoning of Australia’s all-important security alliance with the US, says research associate Tom Switzer.
Foreign Policy
Centre visitor Stephen M. Walt says his recent trip to Australia provoked a number of questions about the US rebalance towards Asia but none bigger than this; how much effort should...
The Spectator
Malcolm Fraser's Dangerous Allies is an important contribution to a vital question facing the country, writes research associate James Curran; should Australia continue to pursue an alliance with the United States?
US News & World Report
A new documentary says keeping sugar cheap is a policy choice that makes America less healthy. Research associate Nicole Hemmer looks at the some of the unsavoury practices...
Australian Financial Review
Unlike the Tea Party conservatives in the US, Tony Abbott prefers flexibility and adaptability to rigid consistency and purity of dogma. On the eve of the budget, research associate Tom Switzer...
The Australian
An optimistic view of our region is that the chase for prosperity will overcome the risk of adverse security outcomes, according to former defence minister and director of the Perth USAsia...
The Australian
The emergence of the Indo-Pacific region as the global centre of gravity will test the Australian-US relationship in many ways but, according to Centre CEO Bates Gill, American engagement in close...
US News & World Report
A number of conservatives would like us to believe history is repeating itself in the Benghazi story, but as research associate Nicole Hemmer argues, it's time to retire...
American and Australian horror films have reimagined rural landscapes as places of malevolence and dread
The 16th issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
US News & World Report
When Cliven Bundy went head-to-head with government officials over grazing rights, conservative media delighted — until the rancher defended slavery in an interview. Glenn Beck, however, avoided an...
ABC The Drum
Barack Obama has arrived in the Asia-Pacific, and given the thorny context of the region, his visit can be judged by how well he delivers across four big goals. Chief...
