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The Age
So you think America is in decline and China on the rise? Think again. In an edited extract from the latest edition of American Review, Clyde Prestowitz from the Economic Strategy...
The Australian Financial Review
In an edited extract from their piece in The American Interest, research associate Tom Switzer and foreign policy expert Owen Harries argue the world has changed and America can...
Notwithstanding the removal of combat exclusion, obstacles to genuine gender equality in the US forces remain
Prevention is justified against terrorists, but containment works against rogue states
Kishore Mahbubani shows once again why he is one of the world’s leading thinkers
The Conversation
US president Barack Obama has renewed his promise to close the controversial US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay but research associate Michael Ondaatje says the task will be far from simple.
The Canberra Times
Australian Defence White Papers tend to tell us more about the state of domestic politics than anything else and the 2013 paper is no exception says lecturer Adam Lockyer.
The 12th issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
A former high-profile pessimist does a volte face on US economic decline
The Conversation
Last week's Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt generated wide-spread media coverage that sometimes put expediency over accuracy. Research associate in counter terrorism Leah Farrall looks at how academics can both...
The Australian
The news media's initial response to the Boston bombings was marked by an admirable restraint, says research associate Nicole Hemmer. In the days that followed, however, the reporting took a turn...
ABC The Drum
Foreign policy analysts believe Kim Jong Un's sabre-rattling on the Korean peninsula is a high-risk gamble or a gambit designed to reassure the North Korean people. Then again, says lecturer...
The Conversation
Ninety-one per cent of Americans want laws requiring tougher criminal background checks for people who want to buy guns. Lecturer in US politics and foreign policy David Smith explains why the Senate...
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...
This is a shortened version of a longer paper
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...
