The US alliance will endure despite Trump’s efforts to upend the global order. But whoever wins the May 3 election must boost engagement with regional partners.
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AUKUS isn’t perfect and faces new tests under the Trump administration. But it remains Australia’s best bet for its future defence capability.
Should Australia be worried that Trump will cast it aside following his harsh words for Europe? We shouldn’t panic – our overlapping interests with the US are enduring.
Trump’s apparent break with Ukraine is making all US allies question his reliability. He vowed to put ‘America first’, but these moves just make the US more isolated.
Backed by the US, Australia has been increasingly asserting its power in the Indo-Pacific region. Has this strategy served it well?
When geopolitical tension mounts, New Zealand tends to lean closer to traditional allies. Chinese warships in the Tasman make that even likelier now.
The US and Australia are increasingly attaching defence and security conditions to aid for Pacific nations – but that aid is not seeing any real progress on development goals.
Australia, the US and UK are currently debating a treaty to formalise AUKUS. But there’s nothing stopping Trump from making further demands or scrapping the deal altogether.
The US and UK want to triple nuclear power capacity worldwide by 2050. But that leaves renewable rich ally Australia in a tricky situation
The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ has become central to foreign policy debates. But it oversimplifies geopolitical reality and fuels ideas of a ‘New Cold War’.
Fission and fusion are both nuclear reactions. But while one involves splitting atoms, the other involves fusing atoms together.
The government’s push for closer relations with the US could be undone by a Trump victory in November.
Many questions remain about AUKUS, but assuming it’s successful, it could give the US and its allies a significant military advantage in the long term.
In weighing up Australia’s interests, we must look beyond the critiques. The geopolitical circumstances and new technological advances point to the need to stay the course.
The lack of debate, not to say outrage, about the sheer cost of the AUKUS project is perhaps the most remarkable feature of the sorry submarine saga.
Australia’s no-holds-barred embrace of AUKUS is more likely than not to prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made.
A war of words has broken out between Australian and US political veterans over whether the status of Taiwan is a key Western security interest.
Frank Bongiorno welcomes ‘half dissident’ Alan Behm’s informed study of the relationship between Australia and the US, in a time of too many ‘instant experts’ on American politics.
Peter Malinauskas joined the podcast to talk about AUKUS, bans on children under 14 accessing social media, restricting most political donations and Peter Duttons Nuclear announcement.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
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Associate Professor of International Politics and Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs (Christchurch), University of Otago
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Adjunct Professor, Defence and Security Institute, The University of Western Australia; UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Waikato
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University