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Obama pressures Rudd over Gitmo inmates
30 May 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
Geoffrey Garrett comments on the request by the US President, Barack Obama, for Australia to resettle some of the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Read Article
Popularity doesn't equal power
28 May 2009
The Australian Financial Review
The United States under Barack Obama is still overreaching diplomatically, writes Tom Switzer. Read Article
Kim Beazley and Tom Switzer discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme
27 May 2009
Sky News Playing Politics
Former Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beazley and the US Studies Centre's Tom Switzer discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme and the North Korean nuclear tests. Watch Online
US allies need more give and take
27 May 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
Robert O'Neill warns that Australia needs to consider carefully its options as an ally of the new US president. Read Article
Robert O'Neill delivers Charteris Lecture: Adjusting to Obama
26 May 2009
Professor Robert O'Neill delivered the Charteris Lecture to the Australian Institute of International Affairs on "Adjusting to President Obama: Challenges for the Allies of the USA". Read Speech
Aussie jitters
22 May 2009
The Wall Street Journal Asia
Tom Switzer says public unease about globalization is hardly an Australian peculiarity, but the onus falls on political leaders and policy makers to try to bridge the divide between elite and public opinion by explaining more clearly the benefits of capital flows.
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Bob Carr, Merck chief join US centre
21 May 2009
The Australian
The US Studies Centre has appointed former NSW premier Bob Carr and former Merck vice president David Anstice to its board of directors, effective immediately. Read Article
Our Priorities Are Wrong
20 May 2009
The Spectator
Australian policymakers should contemplate US withdrawal from Asia but stop panicking about China, says Tom Switzer. Read Article
Visiting professor wins prestigious prize from American Political Science Association
19 May 2009
John S. Ahlquist, Assistant Professor of Poltiical Science, Florida State University, is the co-winner of the 2009 Mancur Olson Prize awarded by the APSA's Organized Section in Political Economy for his dissertation (University of Washington, 2008, co-chairs: Margaret Levi and Michael Ward), "Building and Using Strategic Capacity: Labor Union Federation and Economic Policy." It is a comparative study with cases that include Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. John will be a visitor to the US Studies Centre in late June to work on a co-authored book project with Levi.
Barack Obama's first 100 days in office: An interview with Thomas Mann
19 May 2009
Thomas Mann, one of America's pre-eminent scholars, reviews the start of the Obama presidency, the relationship with Congress and assesses likely upcoming developments for the remainder of 2009. Watch Online
Garrett addresses FBI officers on Australia-US relations
18 May 2009
Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Chief Executive of the US Studies Centre, addressed fifty American FBI senior officers visiting Australia as part of its National Executive Institute under the auspices of the Australian Institute of Police Management. Garrett discussed the challenges facing Australia and the US in the Afghanistan war as well as other areas of policy, led by climate change, where the domestic policies and international priorities of the two countries were similar. Garrett said that the bedrock strength of the US-Australia alliance creates a powerful foundation from which to tackle the major policy issues facing both countries as they and the world try to emerge from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Garrett discusses China-US relations with Chinese journalist at Future Summit
18 May 2009
Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Chief Executive of the US Studies Centre, participated in a keynote luncheon conversation with anchor of CCTV's BizChina program, Rui Chenggang, at the 2009 Future Summit of the Australia Davos Connection. Garrett and Chenggang agreed that neither the US nor China wants its bilateral relationship to be perceived as a nascent G-2 and hence that both countries will invest in multilateral processes like the G-20. Garrett argued that this provides opportunities for the Australian government to pursue what Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called "creative middle power diplomacy".
Former Premier and Merck Executive appointed to the Board of the US Studies Centre
18 May 2009
The United States Studies Centre welcomes the appointments by the University of Sydney of former NSW Premier The Honourable Bob Carr and by the American Australian Association Ltd of former Executive Vice President of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Mr David Anstice to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Read Media Release
Levi presents inaugural Alex McDonald Lecture
14 May 2009
Margaret Levi presented the inaugural Alex McDonald Memorial Lecture for the Brisbane Labour History Association today.
US Studies Centre professors toast the publication of the Annual Review of Political Science
13 May 2009
Two US Studies Centre professors today toasted the publication of the Annual Review of Political Science, Vol 12. This highly cited and influential series covers every arena of political science, providing authoritative summaries of knowledge for scholars of politics and international relations around the world. US Studies Centre Professor Margaret Levi edits this prestigious series, with Visiting Professor Simon Jackman serving as one of the two associate editors. Read More
E-news: 11 May 2009
11 May 2009
In this edition:
- New additions to National Summit keynote speakers
- The First 100 Days of the Obama Administration
- Commentators' corner
- Blogspot
- Sydney Film Festival
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- US business and visa seminar
Bring back the Thatcher revolution
8 May 2009
The Wall Street Journal
Small governments and free markets remain sound economic policies, writes Tom Switzer. Read Article
Obama cuts tax breaks for outsourcing
6 May 2009
ABC Radio Australia
US companies that send jobs overseas will no longer enjoy tax breaks back home. President Barack Obama says the savings made from removing these incentives will go towards companies that are investing in research and development at home. Bruce McKern provides quotes. Listen Online
The return of the realists
6 May 2009
The Australian Literary Review
In the latest edition Tom Switzer reviews The Irony of American History, by Reinhold Niebuhr; George Kennan: A Study of Character, by John Lukacs; and Journals 1952-2000, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Read Article
John Howard speaks at Stanford University
5 May 2009
Former Prime Minister the Hon. John Howard, AC delivered a series of talks at Stanford University's Hoover Institution last month. In the interview, "The Aussie Way", Mr Howard discusses a comprehensive set of issues in foreign policy, including Australia's "special relationship" with the United States. Access to the interview is provided to the USSC by courtesy of the Hoover Institution. Watch Online
Garrett addresses Doha conference on the geopolitics of the GFC
4 May 2009
Professor Geoffrey Garrett, Chief Executive of the US Studies Centre, discussed the geopolitics of the global financial crisis with noted international economist Clyde Prestowitz at an international conference organised by the Foreign Ministry of Qatar and the UCLA Center for Middle East Development in conjunction with the Doha Forum. Garrett argued that even though the US and China were being badly affected by the GFC, it would prove harder for Europe and Japan to recover from the crisis. As a result, Garrett said that the world was moving towards a de facto G-2, almost by default. He said Sino-American tensions were likely to rise as both countries will find it difficult to reduce the massive economic imbalances in China-US economic relations that contributed to the crisis.
No easy remedy to cure infection
1 May 2009
The Canberra Times
Competing demands complicate our responses to swine flu, Lesley Russell writes. Read Article
Fighting the flu with one hand tied
1 May 2009
The Washington Post
The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are responsible for containing swine flu - a critical job that could affect tens of thousands of people in the United States and perhaps millions worldwide. But the public health agencies that are suddenly so much in the public eye lack key powers and resources, writes Lawrence Gostin. Read Article
