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Ex-presidential speechwriter evaluates Obama one year on
31 October 2009
The Weekend Australian
Jimmy Carter's former speechwriter points out key similarities between Carter and Obama, saying both presidents won office because of who they weren’t. James Fallows, professor in US media at the US Studies Centre told The Weekend Australian: "Carter was elected largely in revulsion to Richard Nixon … Obama was coming in largely out of revulsion with what had happened with Bush and Cheney.” Read Article
The challenge of Chimerica
31 October 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
For more than a decade both the US and China have focused on economic win-wins, managing down their lurking geopolitical rivalries and keeping a lid on potentially incendiary political disagreements and military tensions. Their presidents, Hu Jintao and Barack Obama, have already signalled their strong intentions to keep on this path. The problem for both, and for the world, is that after the global financial crisis it will be become increasingly difficult to do so, writes Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
New magazine on the US and its global impact launched
29 October 2009
The US Studies Centre has launched the inaugural edition of a new magazine on the contemporary United States and its global impact. Titled American Review, the twice-yearly journal aims to bring international perspectives to analysis and commentary on United States politics, business and society. Read Media Release
What prospects for the US and Chinese economies?
29 October 2009
ABC Radio PM
The USA is Australia's most powerful ally and China its most powerful trading partner. The two countries are locked in a symbiotic relationship of debt and trade. US Studies Centre Chair in US Media, James Fallows, has been living in China for three years and discusses the relationship and the future of China. Listen Online
Journalist Fallows discusses Obama's presidency
29 October 2009
ABC Lateline
James Fallows, a reporter for the Atlantic Monthly and a professor at the US Studies Centre, discusses the first year of Barack Obama's US presidency with Leigh Sales. Read Transcript
Mounting violence
29 October 2009
Australia Network Newshour
Jim Middleton speaks to James Fallows, Chair in US Media at the US Studies Centre and National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, about the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. Watch Online
Fair access to health care critical to the world's poorest
29 October 2009
ABC Radio Australia
Leading public health expert and US Studies Centre Visiting Fellow, Lawrence Gostin, has called for a new international pact to improve the health and survival capacity of the world's poorest people. He has proposed what he calls a "Global Plan for Justice." He says its core mission would be to ensure fair allocation of scarce vaccines and health care, to meet basic survival needs, and to mitigate the health impacts of climate change. Listen Online
Unhealthy focus on disasters
26 October 2009
The Age
While emergencies can bring out the best in humankind, the media attention and public outpouring they elicit does little to address the everyday struggle endured by the world's poorest people, writes US Studies Centre visiting fellow Lawrence Gostin. Read Article
Health reform on US agenda
26 October 2009
The Canberra Times
There are many common issues driving health-care reform in Australia and the United States, key among them the increasing economic and social burden of preventable chronic illnesses, writes Lesley Russell. Read Article
Obama seeks to silence a critic
26 October 2009
The Australian
The Obama administration has declared war on Rupert Murdoch's popular cable channel, Fox News, writes Tom Switzer. Read Article
Obama declares war on Fox
26 October 2009
Sky News Playing Politics
Tom Switzer and Eamonn Fitzpatrick discuss the stance taken by the Whitehouse to exclude the Fox network from press conferences. Watch Online
No one likes armed missionaries
25 October 2009
Australian Review of Public Affairs
Dennis Phillips reviews two books: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman and The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century by G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Tony Smith. Read Review
The media bombards us with ETS coverage. So why are we still in the dark?
24 October 2009
The Spectator Australia
Australia's disproportionately intensive analysis of the emissions trading debate is driven by politics, not policy, argues Tom Switzer. Read Article
US Studies Centre teams up with Harvard University
23 October 2009
The US Studies Centre will partner with Harvard University on three international conferences between 2010 and 2012. The Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies has committed US$120,000 to support the conferences that will be held in Australia. Read Media Release
US Senate approves legislation on hate crime protection
23 October 2009
ABC Radio Australia
The US Senate has approved legislation that extends the decades old hate crimes protection to those attacked because of their sexual orientation. US Studies Centre lecturer and constitutional lawyer, Harry Melkonian, comments. Listen Online
Reportage and Neutral Reportage – Are They Something New or Just Fair Report on Steroids?
23 October 2009
Media Law Resource Center Bulletin
US Studies Centre lecturer, Harry Melkonian, has written a paper exploring the reportage defence in the UK, the EU and the USA in terms of doctrinal law with some recourse to free speech theory and concludes that reportage, whether viewed as an extension of the fair report doctrine or as a corollary to responsible journalism, serves an important, if limited, role in freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Read Article
E-news: October 2009
23 October 2009
In this edition:
- One Year of Obama
- Robert Hill to teach climate change unit
- James Fallows at the National Press Club
- Obama: One Year in the Making
- Australia's Silent Film Festival
How does climate changes influence local economic development?
22 October 2009
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Edward Blakely talks about the fourth edition of his book, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, co-authored with Nancey Green Leigh. The latest edition explores how climate change and goals of sustainability influence the practice of local economic development. Listen Online
Washington's ETS progress
21 October 2009
ABC Unleashed
As Australia's ETS debate continues, it is important to keep a close watch over Washington's progress. Tom Switzer tells us why. Read Article
Dominick Dunne and Edward Kennedy: Two American lives with a second act
20 October 2009
On Line Opinion
In August this year, the death of Dominick Dunne, the renowned special correspondent for Vanity Fair and best-selling author who chronicled the trials and affairs of American high society barely made a blip on the international news radar, with his death coming one day after that of Senator Edward Kennedy. Katherine Delaney and Brendon O'Connor write that Kennedy and Dunne shared more than the same era in American history. Read Article
Forecast against plain sailing
20 October 2009
The Australian
In the US, climate change is not a pressing issue covered extensively by the media and that is bad news for us, writes Tom Switzer. Read Article
Margaret Levi interviews and workshops
19 October 2009
On Friday, 16 October, Margaret Levi did a video interview with Elinor Ostrom, the co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics. The interview, which will appear online once edited, complements the prefatory essay Ostrom wrote for the forthcoming volume of the Annual Review of Political Science.
Levi will also deliver a number of lectures in coming weeks: "Provoking Preferences by Inducing Beliefs: Transport Sector Unions in the US and Australia" at the University of Texas, Austin (19 October), University of Virginia (22-23 October) and Columbia University (28 October). These talks are from a book-in-progress, co-authored with John Ahlquist.
On 14-16 October, Levi chaired the review of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, which Elinor and Vincent Ostrom co-founded.
Levi, with Audrey Sacks and Tom Tyler, has also published "Conceptualizing Legitimacy, Measuring Legitimating Beliefs" in American Behavioral Scientist (53: 354-375).
US climate debate goes nuclear and Australia needs to listen
19 October 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald
Serious discussions on American climate-change legislation will probably begin this year, but not be concluded until well after Copenhagen. And the US approach is likely to be more pro-nuclear and pro-green protectionism than Australia would prefer. Geoffrey Garrett says that an understanding of these realities should inform the emissions trading debate in Australia. Read Article
Rise of dollar savages exports
17 October 2009
The Weekend Australian
THE Australian dollar's astronomical run is threatening to put a brake on the economic recovery, with exporters fearful they will be put out of business if it rises much further. Sara Rich quotes Geoffrey Garrett in this article. Read Article
Controversy as Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
12 October 2009
ABC2 Breakfast
Geoffrey Garrett is asked why Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize so early in his term as US President. Watch Online
Where the dollar's wild ride will stop
12 October 2009
The Australian
We must ensure the Australian dollar does not impede recovery, says Geoffrey Garrett. Read Article
Why was Barack Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
10 October 2009
SBS World News Australia
Harry Melkonian comments on the decision to award President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize which has stunned many in the US and around the world. Watch Online
Hey Hey outrage in the US
9 October 2009
ABC NewsRadio
The Hey Hey It's Saturday television show sparked controversy around the world when six men painted their faces black and donned Afro wigs in a "Jackson Jive" skit. US Studies Centre lecturer Jane Park discusses the historical significance of "blackface". Listen Online
Floating dollar kept economy buoyant
5 October 2009
ABC Unleashed
It is well accepted that sound financial regulation and macroeconomic policies over the past decade have insulated Australia from the worst of the GFC. Geoffrey Garrett says that's only part of the story. Read Article
Obama's attention turns to Afghanistan
4 October 2009
Sky Sunday Agenda
This week US President Obama began the process of deciding the future strategy in the Afghan war. Geoffrey Garrett says that Obama faces a double quagmire dealing with both strategy on the ground in Afghanistan and politics at home. Watch Online
Former New Orleans “recovery czar” leads infrastructure policymakers to the US
1 October 2009
Professor Ed Blakely, honorary professor of Urban Policy at the US Studies Centre and head of the recovery in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina, will lead senior Australian infrastructure policymakers on a fact finding visit to the United States in October. Read Media Release
