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  • 2 Mar 2023
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security
    • United Kingdom
    • United States

    AUKUS and intellectual property

    Naoise McDonagh , Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann
    In an era of economic entanglement, IP theft has the potential to threaten democracy. Governments need to be vigilant.
  • 24 Feb 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Navy
    • Australia–New Zealand
    • China-Australia Relations
    • New Zealand

    The Australia-New Zealand alliance in a war with China

    Robert Ayson
    The potential for conflict in the region should have Canberra and Wellington thinking about shared strategic risks.
  • 8 Feb 2022
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Getting ready for Trump as President 47

    Ben Scott
    In order to adjust to an unpredictable United States, Canberra needs new habits.
  • 11 Nov 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Australia and the American far-right conspiracy

    Erin Hurley
    Covid tyranny? Could the fevered imaginings of the post-2016 Trump era end up colouring the US-Australia relationship?
  • 29 Oct 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    What Australia needs to ask itself about the United States

    Ethan Paul
    As the US embraces “strategic competition”, its impetuous nationalism has implications for Canberra.
  • 18 Oct 2021
    • United States
    • Australia-United States Relations

    America’s doughnut shaped Indo-Pacific strategy

    Henry Storey
    As Washington’s pivot to Asia begins to take shape, showing up in person and walking the talk will be deal-breakers.  
  • 6 Oct 2021
    • United States
    • US Elections
    • Australia-United States Relations

    AUKUS: What happens if the Republicans play the Trump card?

    Grant Wyeth
    A White House change of guard could mean Australia needs to reassess its values under a more nihilistic regime.
  • 29 Sep 2021
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Indonesia

    AUKUS + Indonesia

    Johannes Nugroho
    Side-stepping any alignment with super powers allows Indonesia to reap the benefits of the new trilateral agreement.
  • 23 Sep 2021
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China

    Economic diplomacy: After AUKUS in trade, aid and technology

    Greg Earl
    Commercial links may be China’s response to the submarine deal.
  • 21 Sep 2021
    • US Navy
    • Maritime Security
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australian Navy
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China
    • United Kingdom
    • France

    AUKUS and the CPTPP: It’s all about China

    Ian Hill
    Security deterrence is only one factor in the new and fast-moving geostrategic environment of the Indo-Pacific.
  • 16 Sep 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    AUSMIN is a chance to refocus Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy

    Ashley Townshend , Susannah Patton , Tom Corben
    For all the talk, there is little evidence that Washington is treating the region as a decisive priority.
  • 9 Sep 2021
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    ANZUS and Trumpism

    Ben Scott
    Australia needs to acknowledge its blind spots in its 70-year friendship with America.
  • 24 Jun 2020
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian Public Opinion

    Generation why? Younger Australians wary of United States

    Natasha Kassam
    Donald Trump is a big part of this story. But there is also a clear gap in attitudes toward China.
  • 9 Jun 2020
    • Defence & Security
    • United States
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China

    The case for Australian strategic ambiguity

    Victor Abramowicz
    Loyalty has its place. But being a more uncertain ally can make you a better friend.
  • 8 Oct 2019
    • United States
    • Australia-United States Relations

    US shift on Syria puts Canberra in a bind

    Rodger Shanahan
    Trump’s announcement may or may not be followed through, but it has serious implications for Australia either way.
  • 29 Aug 2019
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Should ScoMo support Trump’s “madman” tactics?

    Stephen Grenville
    The risk of going all-in with America’s trade war
  • 17 Apr 2019
    • Australia in the World
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australia’s election 2019

    A question of faith: future Coalition foreign policy under Morrison

    Geoff Kitney
    <p>If he wins the Australian election, Scott Morrison's evangelical Christian faith may influence foreign policy.</p>
  • 9 Jan 2019
    • Australia-United States Relations

    The special one: Australia, Ireland and the US working visa fight

    Alan C. Tidwell
    After a lobbying campaign, Australia will retain exclusive access to a special visa allowing people to work in the US.
  • 5 Jun 2017
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • The Trump Presidency

    AUSMIN: Regional issues deserve top billing

    Dougal Robinson
    The key question is whether Australian overtures to Tillerson and Mattis will inform President Trump’s decision making.
  • 2 May 2017
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • The Trump Presidency

    The allure of orthodoxy and the peril of sentimentality

    James Curran
    It would be difficult to imagine Turnbull arriving in New York with nothing to offer Trump.
  • 23 Feb 2017
    • Australia-United States Relations

    A question for alliance critics: What's your alternative?

    Rory Medcalf
    Alliance critics need to offer realistic alternatives; alliance advocates need a realistic plan for helping the alliance adjust to difficult times ahead.
  • 22 Feb 2017
    • Australia-United States Relations

    From one friend to another after an eventful first month

    Angus Houston
    The US needs to engage with, and make reasonable space for, China.
  • 22 Feb 2017
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Joe Hockey and the limits of mateship

    James Curran
    Australia can do better than this. Now is not the time to be retreating into wilful sentimentality.
  • 13 Dec 2016
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Fighting with America: Trump is the biggest stress test for ANZUS yet

    Nick Bryant
    Rather than historical amnesia, the problem Australian prime ministers will encounter with Donald Trump is historical illiteracy.
  • 24 Nov 2016
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia-United States Relations

    How US protectionism would threaten Australia

    Ian Satchwell
    The US is far and away Australia's most important two-way investment partner.
  • 23 Nov 2016
    • Australia-United States Relations

    ANZUS: Former Defence chief takes on the doubters

    Angus Houston
    I have been disappointed with the political opportunism I have seen since the US election.
  • 17 Nov 2016
    • Australia-United States Relations

    The Trump ascendency and the end of ANZUS bipartisanship

    Cam Hawker
    Why we might be seeing the end of Labor-Coalition consensus on ANZUS.
  • 28 Oct 2016
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Gillard and Clinton: The pull of an old friendship

    Geoff Kitney
    Clinton is said to have been impressed, in the time that Gillard was Australian Prime Minister, with her toughness on policy issues.
  • 20 Nov 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Maritime Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Foreign Policy
    • Asia and the Middle East
    • US-China

    Much at stake for Turnbull and the region at East Asia Summit

    Elliot Brennan
  • 19 Nov 2015
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations

    The shocking truth: A Trump presidency could be good for ANZUS

    Crispin Rovere
  • 30 Oct 2015
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    As RAN prepares to exercise with China's navy, Australia risks a PR disaster

    Euan Graham
  • 30 Oct 2015
    • Maritime Security
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia-United States Relations

    South China Sea: US Navy mission justified by China's excessive claims

    Bonnie S Glaser
  • 6 Oct 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australia-United States Relations

    TPP: Not worth the risk

    Leon Berkelmans
  • 10 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Syria
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Terrorism
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    The US needs to take the fight in Syria more seriously and Australian involvement will help

    Jim Molan
  • 3 Sep 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Asia and the Middle East

    Reflections on the 2015 Lowy Lecture: Greater Asia

    Euan Graham
  • 13 Jul 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australia-United States Relations

    What's the harm in being transparent about the TPP negotiations?

    Stephen Grenville
  • 30 Jun 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Regional relationships
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • US-China

    Is the US Congress the main impediment to a rules-based order?

    Malcolm Jorgensen
  • 4 May 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • US-China

    Unquestioned beliefs on both sides of US-China divide

    Merriden Varrall
  • 17 Apr 2015
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • US-China

    America's China consensus slowly unravels

    Hugh White
  • 17 Mar 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Institutions
    • Regional relationships
    • Global Economic Governance
    • IMF
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Foreign Policy
    • US-China

    China and the AIIB: Towards a new rules-based order?

    Malcolm Jorgensen
  • 3 Mar 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Trade
    • Australian Perspective
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • WTO
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership be a good deal for Australia?

    Stephen Grenville
  • 16 Feb 2015
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Regional relationships
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-India Relations

    Obama's India visit reveals weakness of US position in Asia

    Hugh White
  • 15 Nov 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Obama on Asia: Holding the Brisbane line

    Rory Medcalf
  • 13 Nov 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Time for Australia to emerge from its foreign-policy adolescence

    Kishore Mahbubani
  • 5 Nov 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations

    Australia's provincial reflex

    Nick Bryant
  • 22 Oct 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations

    On Whitlam and the US alliance

    James Curran
  • 15 Sep 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    Why America's Iraq strategy will work, and why Australia should take part

    Anthony Bubalo
  • 15 Sep 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    Australia's Iraq deployment: Pragmatism over principle

    Rodger Shanahan
  • 12 Sep 2014
    • Defence & Security
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Foreign Policy

    Is Abbott spreading Australia too thin?

    Ely Ratner
  • 9 Sep 2014
    • Australian Perspective
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Defence Intelligence and Security

    Abbott's first year: What the pundits get wrong

    Sam Roggeveen
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