Crispin Rovere
Biography
Publications
Crispin Rovere is a member of the Australian Labor Party and previous convenor of the ACT ALP International Affairs Policy Committee. Formerly he was a PhD candidate at the ANU's Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) and previously worked in Secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, and published on nuclear policy. Crispin is the author of The Trump Phenomenon: How One Man Conquered America.
Yes, Trump is a realist and no, this is not subjective
Denying Trump’s realist credentials appears to stem from some weird insecurity
Why Trump won
The reason Trump did so well is not because of racism, xenophobia or ‘the basket of deplorables’. It’s because Obama’s presidency (and Bush’s before him) has been a total failure.
South China Sea: What Labor should (not) do
Fissures have erupted within Labor over whether Australia should join the US in conducting freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea.
The first debate: The loser is the electorate
The first of three presidential debates offered a lot of fireworks, but little to change the state of the race.
Labor's commitment to multilateralism is pragmatic, not ideological
Even when this government trades global security for bilateral advantage it has tended to fail at both.
