The Australian Literary Review

Tom Switzer reviews two books about American foreign policy during the Cold War and the personalities that shaped it, in particular Henry Kissinger. Tom Switzer is a research associate...

On Line Opinion

Will Turner says our latest federal election campaign resembled America’s presidential race because it quickly became all about the party leaders. Particular comparison is made with Gore v Bush in...

The Drum Unleashed (ABC online)

The war in Afghanistan has become a major talking point in America recently due to the standing down of General McChrystal as well as the Wikileaks controversy. However...

The Globe and Mail

How should North America characterize Australia in 2010? Tom Switzer says that despite the importance of its alliance with the US, Australians are increasingly focused on the local. And...

by Geoffrey Garrett

In the latest edition of the Asialink Essays Geoffrey Garrett discusses the important strategic choices facing the Australian government in the Asia-Pacific Century.

The Australian

Illegal immigration is a big issue in Australia and the US this election season. However it is playing out quite differently on the two sides of the Pacific, say Geoffrey Garrett...

An election-campaign survey commissioned by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney in conjunction with Stanford University has found that Australians are more concerned about illegal immigration than those in...

The Australian

Tom Switzer says Australia is not alone in failing to put a price on carbon, with the Democrats failing to push legislation through this year in America and many countries faltering...

by Timothy Came and Colin Campbell

Drawing upon interviews with 69 defense policymakers and close observers, this Governance article develops an extrapolation-oriented case study of Donald Rumsfeld's campaign to transform the development of...

by Audrey Sacks and Margaret Levi

The authors introduce a method for measuring effective government and modeling its consequences for social welfare at the individual level. They focus on the experiences of citizens...

The Australian

President Obama lacks the common touch that made Reagan and Clinton popular leaders, according to Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the US Studies Centre. O'Connor says that the...

ABC The Drum Unleashed

Tom Switzer says that however much there may be a scientific consensus on man-made global warming, the fact remains no policy or global consensus exists. Without these conditions, Switzer...

The Age (online)

James Fallows says that Australia has three big advantages in dealing with an ever more powerful China. However, he also notes that China has a long way to go before...

Sydney Morning Herald

Geoffrey Garrett says in the run-up to elections in both countries this year, Julia Gillard and Barack Obama are each taking stances at odds with their own parties' traditional positions...

by Mark Geiger

This highly original work published by Yale University Press explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War.

The Canberra Times

An American scheme is transforming education for the poor, Lesley Russell writes.

The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Prime Minister's conservatism is not genuine warns Tom Switzer.

National Times

Australian universities are facing the challenge of competing for Asia's best students against global brands such as Berkeley and UCLA. In this article, Dr Sean Gallagher says after two decades of...

The Australian

Recent decisions reveal that the majority justices of the US Supreme Court are being driven by political agendas according to David Weisbrot, professor of legal policy at the US Studies Centre...

The Australian

Along with the great promise that genetic technology brings to human suffering, David Weisbrot argues that the flood of new and often poorly understood genetic information poses ethical, legal and social...