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The Spectator
March 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the United States' war on Iraq, and some neoconservatives still stand by their support of the invasion. Research associate Tom Switzer looks back at the...
Inside the mind of America's most well-known forecaster
The Conversation
Almost everyone agrees that the sequester is a bad idea. Luke Freedman explains why it might go into effect anyway.
The Asia-Pacific is a strategically vital and complex region. As China gradually erodes America’s regional military dominance, the need for US military forces and its allies to work together becomes ever more important...
In comparison to Cold War norms, the size of current US military forces abroad is currently modest. Recent increases in US capacity in Asia however, are likely to be misinterpreted as either provocative...
The Huffington Post
Americans best know Julia Gillard via a 15-minute video of the Australian Prime Minister dressing down opposition leader Tony Abbott for what she saw as misogyny, but popularity abroad does...
An article by Dr Marc Palen published in the Journal of the Civil War Era.
The Globalist
As trade talks in the Asia-Pacific stall, the US is turning its attention to the Atlantic, writes research associate Marc Palen. Is a long elusive pact between the US and Europe...
The Australian
The president's State of the Union address is laden with pomp and circumstance unparalleled in the democratic world, says chief executive Bates Gill. Nonetheless, it is an address held on Congress's...
The Sydney Morning Herald
A near-miss from an asteroid passing perilously close to Earth and a direct hit over Russia from a meteorite demonstrates the danger of Near Earth Objects. Centre PhD candidate David...
Like Reagan, Obama wants to transform the American ideological landscape
Demography is working against American conservatives
The Midwestern Great Lakes are an economic boon
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
A little more than four decades ago, China was a global pariah, writes research associate Tom Switzer in his review of newly published books The China Breakthrough:...
The Conversation Online
Obama’s one hope for his second-term agenda is that the public will force Congress to transform from, in the words of JFK, “rivals for power” into “partners for progress”, writes...
The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
The climate is changing in Washington. That's the message of the President's first State of the Union address since his re-election, writes research associate Tom Switzer
The Conversation Online
President Obama left little doubt during his State of the Union address that the creation of jobs and building a strong middle class would be his top priority in the...
ABC The Drum Online
When Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union this week, his success will be measured in television ratings, with panels of pundits all too ready to deliver verdicts...
The Australian
Last week, a leaked White House memo revealed hints of the process the US uses when it decides whether to kill American citizens. Lecturer in US politics and foreign policy Adam...
