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Peter Beinart meets US in the World students
30 August 2010
Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York Peter Beinart was guest lecturer for Professor Geoffrey Garrett's US in the World class at the University of Sydney last week. Speaking to 200 undergraduates, the senior political writer for The Daily Beast discussed issues including the US mid term elections, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the debate about the Ground Zero mosque. Watch Online
Cutting defence programmes: Here’s how
24 August 2010
As the governments of the United States and United Kingdom announce plans for significant cuts to national defense, US Studies Centre Visiting Professor Colin Campbell presents a new study explaining how the Obama Administration succeeded in achieving cuts to major defense programs within its first year. The findings appear in paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5.
The study, by Campbell and his collaborator Timothy Came of the University of British Columbia, finds that the Obama Administration and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates were able to draw upon the economic climate and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to succeed in this difficult endeavour. More important, it details how elements of the process for determining and presenting these cuts channeled the impact of these contextual factors and manipulated causal mechanisms to promote the cancellation of major defense programs.
US Ambassador speaks to University of Sydney undergraduates
23 August 2010
US Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich spoke to 200 undergraduates at the University of Sydney last week. As a guest at Professor Geoffrey Garrett's US in the World class, Bleich discussed a range of issues including the Obama presidency, America's foreign debt, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Watch video
US politics student wins international essay prize
21 July 2010
What began as an assignment for the Introduction to US Politics course taught by the Centre’s Associate Professor Brendon O’Connor, has won Arts/Law student Josh Marks a prestigious international essay prize.
Marks’ work on what the long battle to enact healthcare reform signified about the state of politics in Obama’s America was awarded second prize in the 2010 Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) Undergraduate Essay Prize Competition this month. The ISA is part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.
Marks, a third-year student enrolled at ANU, receives 150 pounds and an invitation to consider postgraduate study at the ISA as part of the prize.
He says he’s now enthusiastic to continue studying US politics and is already planning to look into applying for an internship in Washington DC. Read Josh Marks' essay
Professor elected to New York Regional Plan Association
7 July 2010
US Studies Centre Honorary Professor in Urban Policy, Edward Blakely, has been elected to the Board of the New York Regional Plan Association (RPA). The Association is is America's oldest and most distinguished independent urban research and advocacy group. Blakely, a disaster recovery expert, has been elected to the RPA Board because of his continuing contribution to re-planning New York following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Margaret Levi participates in the World Democracy Forum
21 June 2010
Chair in US Politics at the US Studies Centre Margaret Levi gave the valedictory address, "The Past as a Source of Political Power in the Present", at the India Institute of Advanced Study's International Conference on "History and Memory" in Shimla, India in late May. She also participated in the World Democracy Forum in Washington, DC, and gave a talk at the World Bank on her work on leadership, co-authored with John Ahlquist.
In June Levi gave a talk, "The Virtuous Circle of Citizen Trust of a Trustworthy Government", at a festschrift honoring Jose Maria Maravall and hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the Juan March Foundation, Madrid.
Gambling days in Harlem
6 May 2010
Wall Street Journal
In Chicago they were known as the policy racket. In New York, they were called the numbers game. The history of small lotteries that thrived in poor American neighbourhoods in the 1920s and '30s is a picturesque melange of race and class, business acumen and organized crime. US Studies Centre affiliates Shane White, Stephen Garton and Stephen Robertson are co-authors with Graham White of Playing The Numbers, a book that details what life was like in Harlem between the world wars. Read book review
Global summit on business and the environment
27 April 2010
The 4th Business for Environment (B4E) Global Summit was held last week in Seoul, South Korea. B4E is the leading international conference for dialogue and business-driven action for the environment. US Studies Centre Adjunct Professor in Sustainability Robert Hill attended the summit and featured as a discussion leader for the Working Group on Business Innovation. read more
Centre expert appointed to World Bank Institute
23 April 2010
US Studies Centre Chair in Politics Professor Margaret Levi has been appointed as a consultant to the World Bank Institute (WBI) to help create a political economy practice within its Governance Division. Read more
The innovator
30 March 2010
E&B Connect (Alumni magazine of the faculty of Economic and Business, University of Sydney)
US Studies Centre Board member David Anstice has been involved in innovation and entrepreneurship throughout his career. In this article he provides some insight into the philosophy behind Merck & Company's financial support of the US Studies Centre as well as his industrious version of retirement. Read article
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The first black president may be the exception that proves the rule of a racially divided United States, says Professor Kevin Gaines.
Dr Mark Geiger discusses the previously unknown financial conspiracy which funded guerrillas during the Civil War.
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