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The American Interest
Has the American public grown tired of being the world's pre-eminent superpower? Leading Australian foreign policy intellectual Owen Harries and Centre research associate Tom Switzer say "leading from behind" — and an...
The Canberra Times
PhD candidate Malcolm Jorgensen analyses former Australian prime minister John Howard's presentation at the Lowy Institute defending the invasion of Iraq. Jorgensen says Howard's decision to commit Australia to the 2003...
The Conversation
In contrast with previous terror attacks, such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, American media has avoided groundless speculation in its response to the Boston bombing. Research associate Nicole Hemmer looks at...
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The arrival of US Marines in Australia has started a national, regional and international debate that will run for some time. The debate centres...
Future challenges to the US–Australia alliance will revolve around tensions inherent in what Glenn Snyder identifies as ‘the alliance security dilemma’. Modern alliances are characterised by the dual fears of abandonment and entrapment—the...
Professor Margaret Levi writes that we are in an era of Big Books, books with a magisterial sweep of the history of the world. All share the desire to explain why some countries...
The Australian
Late last week, Californian lawmakers announced intentions to force the University of California to grant credit for a range of internet-based courses offered by providers outside the UC system. Chief operating...
The Australian
Not only did the peace in Iraq prove far harder to win than the war, writes associate professor Brendon O'Connor, the conflict drained the US of credibility, resources and energy. Now even those...
What of the issue of nuclear deterrence in the US–Australia alliance, and more generally in the western Pacific region?
For some, in America as well as Australia and elsewhere, this is chiefly a...
ABC The Drum
Twenty years ago, the US was a global hegemon, write Centre research associate Tom Switzer and founding editor of the National Interest Owen Harries. But it's decision to invade Iraq ten...
The American Conservative
Ten years after the US led coalition forces into Iraq, Iran has expanded its influence on the region and human rights are on the wane. The lesson of the war...
The Conversation
Despite talk of President Obama's re-election ushering in a new, liberal America, the competing budget proposals currently before Congress show just how right of centre the economic debate remains. Research associate...
The Conversation and SBS Online
The global discourse on climate change is dominated by ideological rhetoric rather than scientific reality, say University of Sydney professor Christopher Wright and the University of Michigan's Andy...
In a period of limited and increasingly constrained defence resources, both the United States and Australia need to be looking for defence options that promise especially high leverage in the context of the...
The Age
The US-led invasion of Iraq ten years ago this month has resulted in Iraqi deaths in the hundred thousands, coalition casualties in the thousands, and a country still beset by internal...
The Lowy Interpreter
Australian forces played an honourable role in the war in Iraq and helped depose a murderous dictator. Nonetheless, says research associate Tom Switzer, they should never have been sent there...
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, said he was bullish about the US/China relationship in his first public address since leaving office earlier this year.
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In this article for Diplomatic History, Dr Marc Palen uncovers the forgotten late-nineteenth-century American free trade movement and the influx of Victorian free trade ideology in the United States, looking particularly at...
Los Angeles Times
The decision by the American Conservative Union not to invite gay right group GOProud and New Jersey governor Chris Christie to its annual Conservative Political Action Conference was a striking...
