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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
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...
America moves left, but even a liberal Democratic president will struggle to enact radical reform
Obama won’t let debt or sluggish growth slow his plans for an activist, expansive state
Washington’s plan to reorient foreign policy towards a surging Asia carries risks
The 11th issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
The Huffington Post
The nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense signals a shift in foreign policy strategy being driven by the Obama administration, argues research associate Tom Switzer. Despite criticisms from neo-conservatives...
The Interpreter
As the US discovers the limits to to the use of force, it's reorienting its foreign policy outlook to a realist one, says research associate Tom Switzer. Barack Obama's nomination of...
