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The Logic of Interoperability: Australia's Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
30 April 2013
Although Australia has sent its own forces to fight alongside the US in every major American conflict since the Great War, it worries that this level of loyalty might not always be reciprocated. Australia has therefore maintained a position of self-reliance in all of its defence decisions. Using the F-35 program as an example, Dr Adam Lockyer argues that this logic of interoperability is becoming increasingly untenable. Read article
Can Nations Succeed?
3 April 2013
Professor Margaret Levi writes that we are in an era of Big Books, books with a magisterial sweep of the history of the world. All share the desire to explain why some countries flourish, why some start and stall on the path to development, and why others seem never to find the path at all. In sociology, Big Books date back at least to Karl Marx and Max Weber. Their publication has been more or less regular ever since, and their authors tend to elaborate the sort of grand and general theories that have come under increasing attack in recent decades, given methodological advances that have transformed analytic tastes. Read article
Foreign Relations in the Gilded Age: A British Free-Trade Conspiracy?
13 March 2013
In this article for Diplomatic History, Dr Marc Palen uncovers the forgotten late-nineteenth-century American free trade movement and the influx of Victorian free trade ideology in the United States, looking particularly at how they controversially reshaped Gilded Age US foreign relations. Read article
The Civil War's Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy's Diplomacy of Free Trade
26 February 2013
An article by Dr Marc Palen published in the Journal of the Civil War Era. Read article
Case Note: National Federation of Independent Business v Sibelius
31 January 2013
Dr Harry Melkonian writes on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (Obama-care) for the Macquarie Law Journal. The article presents an analysis of the various aspects of the Supreme Court decision. Read article
Domestic political violence and civil war: An introduction
31 January 2013
Professor Margaret Levi provides an introduction to The Annual Review of Political Science's publication of thirteen articles on the problem of Domestic Political Violence and Civil War. Among the enduring questions in political science are the conditions under which domestic political violence and civil wars occur, why they take the forms they do, and how they are ended and peace maintained. Read article
Freedom of Speech and Society: A Social Approach to Freedom of Expression
30 January 2013
Traditionally, freedom of speech has been justified as necessary for democratic government and as an essential individual right. This study by Dr Harry Melkonian departs from traditional legal and philosophical theories and breaks new ground by demonstrating that well-established and contemporary social theory explains the essential role of speech in highly differentiated modern societies. Link to publishers
Book Review: What's fair on the air?
11 December 2012
The Journal of American History: September 2012
Research associate Nicole Hemmer reviews Heather Hendershot's What's Fair on the Air: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest. How has conservative media changed since the days of the 1950s? Read review
The United States Studies Centre - World Press Institute Media Fellowship Report
11 December 2012
David King reports on the rigorous program of interviews, study, and reporting that spanned a dozen cities including New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Chicago. David King is the 2012 recipient of the US Studies Centre's Media Fellowship, in partnership with the World Press Institute. Read report
The Reasons for Compliance with Law
16 November 2012
Margaret Levi, Tom R. Tyler and Audrey Sacks contribute the chapter "The Reasons for Compliance with Law" to the book Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights edited by Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods and published by Oxford University Press. Link to Oxford University Press
VIDEOS & INTERVIEWS
Lecturer Adam Lockyer discusses the election of new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and the US decision to send military aid to Syria's rebels
Trans-Pacific trade and a rising China
CEO Bates Gill looks at the implications of a rising China for the Asia-Pacific and how the Trans-Pacific partnership is shaping the region.
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