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The Age
The outbreak of anti-American violence around the world have only just made foreign policy a live issue in this election. Research associate Tom Switzer asks why Americans are less concerned about...
ABC The Drum Online
The nature of Australia's alliance with the US will gradually change for two reasons: the decline of America and the rise of China, writes research associate Tom Switzer.
The Conversation
Is there a worse place to rail against low-incmoe earners that at a $50,000-a-plate campaign fundraiser? Research associate Nicole Hemmer says Mitt Romney's latest "47 per cent" gaffe was a breathtaking jumble...
The Conversation
Election day is the big event on the political calender, but associate professor Brendon O'Connor and research assistant Lindsay Gumley say January 2, 2013, is more significant in policy terms. That's...
The Conversation
The growing industry of political fact checkers has seen ratings like "4 Pinnocchios" and "Pants on Fire" become part of the political vernacular in the United States, says lecturer in US...
The Conversation
With August seeing the American economy add an uninspiring 96,000 jobs, unemployment in the US remains above eight per cent. Centre CEO and Dean of the University of Sydney Business School...
The Conversation
Facing a close election with already low turnout expected, Republican-controlled legislatures in more than 30 states have proposed measures that make it harder for people to vote. Professor in legal policy...
The Australian
Like many Democratic candidates before him, President Barack Obama is putting equality and fairness at the centre of his election campaign, says associate professor Brendon O'Connor. It's a natural argument for the party...
The Conversation
Mitt Romney has two problems, says associate professor Brendon O'Connor: his personality and his policies. What can the Republican presidential candidate do to convince voters to give him a shot?
The Conversation
Elections analyst Luke Freedman says the Democratic National Convention went about as well as the party could have hoped for. But, in this partisan political climate, will it be enough to...
The Australian
Winner of the Centre's World Press Institute fellowship David King reports from the convention floor on all the wierd and wonderful delegates preparing for President Obama's speech in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Foreign Policy
In 2011, for the first time in 14 years, global military spending didn't rise, but the global trade in weapons did. Bates Gill, who will take over as chief executive...
The Australian
It's hard to miss the similarities between San Antonio mayor Julian Castro and Barack Obama, says US Studies Centre-World Press Institute media fellow David King. Castro was the first Hispanic to...
The Australian
With 15,000 media people covering the convention and about 6000 delegates at the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina, winner of the Centre's World Press Institute fellowship David King goes looking...
Romney is making tardy moves to build bridges with the Hispanic electorate
It is not nuclear weapons that threaten world peace but conventional weapons and the will to use them
The Conversation
The goal of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, this week isn't simply to court "undecideds", writes US elections analyst Luke Freedman. It’s to convince voters who are unsure...
The Conversation
In her first post for The Conversations election blog, research associate Nicole Hemmer highlights what to look out for, both good and bad, in the lead up to November 6 and...
The Age
With two months to go before the presidential election, America's trademark sense of irrepressible optimism and purpose has been shrouded in uncertainty, acrimony and historic levels of dissatisfaction. And as research...
The Australian
With the American midwest suffering through the worst drought since 1956, winner of the Centre's World Press Institute fellowship David King profiles the farmers who are doing it tough in Iowa.
