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Trump Pushes Australia Toward China
The phone call last week between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in which the president denounced a refugee deal made between the United States and Australia under President Obama,...
Obama's foreign policy legacy in three quotes
After the Bush administration, many believed that President Obama would bring stability to the global order with a fusion of eloquent rhetoric, a preference for multilateralism and a cautious...
Trump and strategic change in Asia
As Donald Trump’s administration comes to power in Washington, the postwar security policy of the US is undergoing a monumental transition. The new president’s campaign rhetoric strongly intimated...
With Donald Trump in the White House, what now for the Asia-Pacific?
Will Trump slap tariffs on Chinese imports, sparking a trade war between the world’s two largest economies? Will he forge a new great power alignment with Moscow, leaving Beijing out in the...
Walking the Blue Line: Lebanon’s Security Sector Reform
Following civil war, re-establishing the legitimacy of a state’s army is a crucial part of security sector reform and international actors can aid this process. The capacity-building work of the...
The Pivot, Past And Future
In November 2009, on his first visit to Asia as president, Barack Obama declared in Japan: “There must be no doubt. As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will...
The King of Jordan visits Australia on RN Drive
Patricia Karvelas interviews Dr Vanessa Newby on ABC Radio’s RN Drive, Thursday 24 November 2016. To listen to the full show The King of Jordan visits Australia on RN Drive on ABC Radio.
The TPP is over. What happens now?
Throughout the primaries and general election campaigns Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as being a terrible deal for America. Now, as President-Elect, Trump...
The bully or the deal maker- which Donald Trump will Australia get?
Leading strategist Professor Hugh White, a former deputy head of the Defence department, says he is unsurprised the government and many commentators have eagerly seized on Trump’s words since...
A global role smashed by US voters
Americans themselves will of course be in deep shock at this outcome, and it may take some time for the shape of Donald Trump’s new America to become clear. But we can be pretty sure that the...
