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Biography
Publications
News and media
James Curran is Professor of Modern History at Sydney University. His most recent book is Australia’s China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear, published by Newsouth. A former analyst with the Office of National Assessments, Curran was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University and in 2013 held the Chair of Australian History at University College Dublin. He was previously a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
![Australia-China relations: Understanding how we arrived at this point](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-07/GettyImages-477382736.jpg?itok=2x9EU2Lc)
Australia-China relations: Understanding how we arrived at this point
History is too often reduced to a cartoonish view, but a proper perspective is crucial to chart the next challenges.
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Taking China seriously: A review of Geoff Raby’s “grand strategy”
Jumping at shadows is no basis for Australian foreign policy. Common sense must prevail.
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Interactives
The Prime Ministers in America
On the eve of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s state visit to Washington, the Lowy Institute presents a series of snapshots examining some of the more memorable meetings between…
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Julie Bishop: buffeted by headwinds
Bishop struggled at times to find the right tone in response to an inward-looking America and a muscular China.
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Analyses
“Americanism, not globalism”: President Trump and the American mission
President Trump may be unwittingly preparing the United States for the end of American global hegemony.
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Harry Harris and the ambassadorial absence
Alliance sentimentalists are wrong to judge the entire heath of the US–Australia relationship through one diplomatic appointment.
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Foreign Policy White Paper sees a new Asia but pleads for the old
This White Paper is, as it ought to be, full of tension between history and geography.
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Commentary
Trump exhumes the Quad
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.
James Curran
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Commentary
US self-belief tested by tardy return to being ‘great again’
Originally published in The Australian.James Curran
Pagination
ABC RN PM
02 February 2017
Sydney Morning Herald
02 February 2017
Pagination