A White House insider’s take on the Iraq wars and realistic foreign policy.

The world owes the policymakers of 1989 a debt of gratitude–their decisions averted catastrophic conflict

This e-book released by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) right before the Toronto G-20 summit features a piece about China-US imbalances and Europe's fiscal crisis by US Studies Centre chief executive...

The Age

In 1996, Howard wooed the battlers by lifting their aspirations, just as Rudd did in 2007. Tom Switzer says it is unlikely that Gillard can do likewise. Tom Switzer is a...

by Dr Rebecca Sheehan

Sheehan has contributed the chapter "Liberation and Redemption in 1970s Rock Music" to the book The Shock of the Global The 1970s in Perspective written by Niall Ferguson, Charles...

by Jeremy Pressman

This essay in the Israel Studies Forum (Vol. 25 Iss. 1) focuses on three broad issues crucial to a successful Arab-Israeli negotiated outcome including strong leadership, excellent timing, and proper...

The Australian

Michael Schuman, Asia business correspondent for Time Magazine, says the course of the coming decades will be determined not by China's rise alone, but by the relationship that emerges between...

The National Times

Edward Blakely, Honorary Professor in Urban Policy at the US Studies Centre, warns that Sydney is in danger of becoming Australia's Philadephia, which was booming 100 years ago but is...

Adelaide Advertiser

Until recently Australian universities have been successful in attracting international students, however they face increased competition from public institutions in the US, warns Sean Gallagher, chief operating officer of the US...

The Australian

Putting off Obama's visit to Australia, first to fight the healthcare reform endgame and now to respond to the oil spill disaster, is ample demonstration of the domestic imperative in contemporary...

The National Times

Israel's Defence Force is losing its fearsome reputation particularly in the light of the bungled Gaza flotilla attack, writes the US Studies Centre's Jeremy Pressman.

The Quarterly Essay

Tom Switzer responds to Waleed Aly's essay "What's Right? The future of conservatives in Australia" from the previous issue of Quarterly Essay.

The Australian

After Copenhagen's failure, should we just learn to live with the consequences of climate change? Tom Switzer and Clive Hamilton debate.

The Drum Unleashed (ABC online)

Expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict Jeremy Pressman says the coming days will likely be full of both detailed revelations and further recriminations about Israeli forces boarding the aid...

South China Morning Post

Shen Dingli, Director of the Centre for American Studies at Fudan University (Shanghai), says that for better or for worse, China is becoming a crucial actor in world affairs...

The Drum Unleashed (ABC online)

Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor of American Politics at the US Studies Centre, considers what impact the Obama presidency has had on world opinion of America. He says enthusiasm...

The Sydney Morning Herald

Geoffrey Garrett says the flight back to the US dollar as the preferred port in the latest global storm is recognition that, warts and all, the US is still...

Sydney Morning Herald

Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, says that we have to drop our Western cultural lenses to understand...

The Australian

Josef Joffe, editor of German nationwide newspaper Die Zeit, considers the ever-present predictions of doom and gloom for the United States, and whether any of them have validity as we peer into...

The Australian

Legal expert David Weisbrot says that US Supreme Court nominee Elena Kegan is identifiably a Democrat and previously served in the Clinton administration, but has a record of centrist politics, carefully...