The 2016 US Presidential Election
Speeches
2016 Event | An address from Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States
In 2016, the Lowy Institute and the United States Studies Centre hosted then-Vice President, Joe Biden, on the Australia-US relationship.
Podcasts
The Director’s Chair: Joe Biden's senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan, on Russia, China, climate diplomacy and Australia
In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Jake Sullivan, the senior policy adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Joe Biden.
Podcasts
The Director’s Chair: Jake Sullivan on Donald Trump, Joe Biden and America’s role in the world
In this episode of The Director’s Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with Jake Sullivan, the senior policy adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Did ‘elites’ get the 2016 US election wrong?
In a recent speech to the Sydney Institute, Australian Ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said that, just before last November's presidential election, he 'simply could not shake the…
Commentary
Donald Trump's focus on home front hardly a surprise
Most analysts of President Trump's inaugural address, especially those in the United States, have stressed its pointed preference for the strident, pungent messages he used to…
The merits of generals in government
As I facetiously said on a number of occasions during my recent abortive run for the Senate, you cannot have too many generals in parliament.
Looking at developments in the US…
Is there a global wave of populism?
I was really pleased to see this new essay in The Monthy by Andrew Charlton and Lachlan Harris, because it draws further attention to the decline in public support for our two…
The election is over, time to move on
For many outside of the US, the country that is arguably the proudest of its democracy has a very odd way of electing its president. We can understand, just, why the founding…
Trump: Not the ideal poster-boy for European populists
Sometimes luck can be so timed as to give an impression of genius. So it seemed with Angela Merkel’s announcement last week that she would stand as the German Christian Democrat…
Trump's voters will be disappointed by his economics
With all the campaign blather, posturing and hyperbole, we don’t know much about the specifics of President-elect Trump’s economic policy. One thing is clear: it is not possible…