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  • 11 Apr 2017
    • The Americas
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Did ‘elites’ get the 2016 US election wrong?

    Thomas E Mann
    Congratulations to Joe Hockey for anticipating Trump's win. But perhaps it was not simply a matter of elites being out of touch, as his analysis suggests.
  • 5 Dec 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The merits of generals in government

    Jim Molan
    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.
  • 2 Dec 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Is there a global wave of populism?

    Sam Roggeveen
    Local circumstances, individual talent and a dash of pure chance might have brought about the political results we have seen across the world, not populism.
  • 1 Dec 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The election is over, time to move on

    Emma Connors
    Forget recounts and calls for the electoral board to be established. Donald Trump played by the electoral rules and won.
  • 28 Nov 2016
    • Europe
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump: Not the ideal poster-boy for European populists

    Marcus Colla
    A Trump association risks squandering hard-earned respectability.
  • 22 Nov 2016
    • Global Economy
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump's voters will be disappointed by his economics

    Stephen Grenville
    It’s simply unrealistic to think businesses will favour American workers over the low labour costs delivered by imports and technology.
  • 21 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The next world order: Domestic dramas and dangerous dislocations

    Tim Dunne
    The 2001 attacks showed how much easier it is for a President to generate bi-partisan support to wage war than it is to create a consensus on universal health care.
  • 21 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    How Australian officials should deal with a Trump administration

    Crispin Rovere
    The most immediate challenge facing Australian officials is determining how likely Trump is to start a trade war with China.
  • 18 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump: An unimaginable president

    James Bowen
    US institutions are wholly unprepared to deal with a candidate they have never envisioned.
  • 16 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Don't give up on the US in Asia just yet

    Michael Heazle
    Under Trump we're likely to see a recalibrated US offshore balancing in Asia that won't mean either careless provocation of China or a total US drawdown.
  • 14 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The death of the median voter

    Jon Fraenkel
    When elections or referenda are decided by the emergence of those who do not habitually vote, many of the assumptions of the median voter theory go out of the window.
  • 14 Nov 2016
    • Russia
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The real Trump-Putin connection

    Matthew Dal Santo
    What little the two men share is a perception of the nature of the West’s present moment, as well as of its origins.
  • 12 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Weekend catch-up: President-elect Donald Trump

    What Trump means for the Iran nuclear deal, globalisation, India, NATO, domestic US institutions and more.
  • 11 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Digital Diplomacy links: President-elect Trump special

    Danielle Cave
    'Blue Feed, Red Feed', the reaction in China, Canadian and New Zealand soft power, and more.
  • 10 Nov 2016
    • Asia
    • China-Australia Relations
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Australia must prepare for an Asia without America

    Hugh White
    A lot will go wrong over the coming months and years, as America’s role in the world, including and perhaps especially in our region, swerves off the rails.
  • 10 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Why Trump won

    Crispin Rovere
    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.
  • 10 Nov 2016
    • India
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    What Donald Trump means for India

    Shashank Joshi
    Most Indian policymakers would probably have preferred a Clinton victory, given her long engagement with India.
  • 9 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    In Cuyohoga County, two reactions to the US election results

    Emma Connors
    ‘I don’t think of Donald as a Republican president, I think of him as a businessmen. None of those effing politicians have a clue'
  • 9 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Election night with the Republicans in Ohio

    Emma Connors
    Spirits are high at the Cuyahoga County Republican watch party in Cleveland City.
  • 9 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    There's more at stake than the White House

    Emma Connors
    The American way is to make sure no authority is foisted upon the people, which means said people face a very long list of choices at the polling booth.
  • 8 Nov 2016
    • Cyber Security
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    How the US election is setting cyber-security precedents

    Brendan Thomas-Noone
    US officials are signaling that any cyber attack that impacts the election could result in a proportional response.
  • 7 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Donald Trump: Straight from Plato's nightmares

    Robert E Kelly
    Trump is a demagogue straight out of Thucydides or Plato’s fears about democracy: unstable, vindictive, lazy, short-tempered, self-aggrandising, and narcissistic.
  • 3 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The gloves are well and truly off in North Carolina

    Emma Connors
    US vice president Joe Biden is sick of foreign leaders looking him in the eye and asking whether he can deliver.
  • 2 Nov 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    'Never Trump': How one Republican foreign-policy expert sees the race

    Emma Connors
    Peter D Feaver says exaggerated fears have elbowed out meaningful foreign policy debate during this race to the White House and that will make will make the job of the next president harder.
  • 20 Oct 2016
    • Russia
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election
    • The Trump Presidency

    US-Russia rivalry takes the stage

    Matthew Sussex
    Trump has absolutely nothing to gain by defending the Kremlin. Russian citizens don’t vote in US elections.
  • 18 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump: The GOP's wrecking ball

    Emma Connors
  • 12 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Republicans play risky game down ballot

    Norman Bell
  • 11 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    What next for the US in Syria: The known versus the unknown

    Emma Connors
  • 10 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The debate that made losers of us all

    James Bowen
  • 10 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    What the US pivot to Asia will look like after the election

    Robert E Kelly
  • 6 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    How voter turnout could put Trump in the White House

    Christine Gallagher
  • 4 Oct 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Could Joe Stiglitz be part of another Clinton administration?

    Emma Connors
  • 29 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Some Americans already looking forward to 2020

    Norman Bell
  • 28 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The first debate: The loser is the electorate

    Crispin Rovere
    The first of three presidential debates offered a lot of fireworks, but little to change the state of the race.
  • 27 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    First thoughts on the presidential debate

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 20 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    What they're thinking in Ohio as the polls tighten

    Emma Connors
  • 15 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Powell not taking the rap for Clinton email saga

    Emma Connors
  • 13 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Clinton rests, the world waits

    Emma Connors
  • 9 Sep 2016
    • Defence & Security
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump corrects course on national security, exposing new contradictions

    Raoul Heinrichs
  • 8 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Two months to go: It's Trump's to lose

    Crispin Rovere
  • 6 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Why the media is getting antsy about Clinton

    Emma Connors
  • 1 Sep 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Labor Day reckoning: Soon it will be time to choose

    Norman Bell
  • 30 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Hit first, and then just keep hitting

    Emma Connors
  • 23 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Roger Ailes and the dark arts

    Emma Connors
  • 22 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Manafort exit unlikely to end Trump's Russian fetish

    James Bowen
  • 16 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    How Trump is playing to lose in Pennsylvania

    Emma Connors
  • 11 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump is not a politician, and that matters

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 9 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Let's get to know the swing states: Florida

    Emma Connors
  • 5 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    Trump's disastrous week: The beginning of the end?

    James Bowen
  • 2 Aug 2016
    • The 2016 US Presidential Election

    The hack that keeps on giving

    Emma Connors
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