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The inaugural issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
It's the most imbalanced bilateral economic relationship in human history but Australia is well positioned to help the two economic rivals sort out their differences.
by Professor Margaret Levi, Audrey Sachs and Tom Tyler
Legitimacy is a concept meant to capture the beliefs that bolster willing obedience. The authors model legitimacy as a sense of obligation or willingness...
Edited by Karen S. Cook, Professor Margaret Levi and Russell Hardin
Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions—such as community organizations, banks, and local governments. Not necessarily...
Australian Review of Public Affairs
Dennis Phillips reviews two books: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman and The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the...
by Professor Margaret Levi and Audrey Sachs
The more a government is effective and fair, the more legitimacy that government is likely to attain, and the more it will possess the potential to...
Croakey: The Crikey health blog
As Australia considers introducing tougher controls on tobacco, it is timely to be reminded that there is much work yet to be done in other countries, writes Lesley...
by Associate Professor Brendon O'Connor and Katherine Delaney
With noted protagonists on either side, the debate about anti-American bias within the Australian national broadcaster was one of the more obvious examples in the...
Associate Professor Brendon O'Connor's review of ‘Boy Clinton’ by R. Emmett Tyrrel, Jr.
Abstract
During and subsequent to the Clinton presidency, the potent and personal metaphors of seduction and dating have been frequently...
The Australian Financial Review
Is Australia drawing the wrong lessons from the global recession, Thomas Barlow asks.
by Professor Margaret Levi, David Olson, Jon Agnone and Devin Kelly
Trade union leaders serve dual, seemingly contradictory roles. They must command militant organizations in conflicts with employers. Simultaneously, they must be accountable...
The Wall Street Journal Asia
Tom Switzer says public unease about globalization is hardly an Australian peculiarity, but the onus falls on political leaders and policy makers to try to bridge the divide...
ABC Unleashed
Maintaining a close relationship between Australia and the US once Bush left office was always going to be challenging and the fear of being forgotten is now in full display in...
The Sydney Morning Herald
James Curran writes about Australia's obsession with its relationship with the US.
Spectator Magazine
However sweet the rhetoric, the priorities of Obama and Rudd should differ in Afghanistan, warns Tom Switzer.
Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Chief Executive of the US Studies Centre, addressed the impact of the Obama presidency on Australia's policy options regarding the war in Afghanistan at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The...
The Spectator
Tom Switzer on Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, who memorably crossed swords with Paul Keating.
ABC Unleashed
Dennis Phillips writes about cynicism in politics. In his Inaugural Address President Barack Obama had something to say about cynicism: "What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has...
ABC Unleashed
Geoffrey Garrett writes that the fanfare surrounding Barack Obama's once in a lifetime presidential inauguration is amply justified. But as soon as the excitement and emotion begins to die down, the...
The Sydney Morning Herald
The more Obama succeeds, the better the Bush legacy will begin to look, writes Geoffrey Garrett.
