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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.
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Malcolm Turnbull's ANZUS offer on North Korea was premature
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review.James Curran
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Rhetorical arthritis won’t sell an Australian republic
It is one thing to recognise the realities of current sensibilities; quite another to let them mask the more substantial arguments required to win a greater measure of popular…
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The Trump/Turnbull transcript: The PM’s parting gift
It is one thing to be a valued and trusted ally; another matter entirely to be taken for granted.
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When will Australia acknowledge a changed America?
There is a whiff of blind faith being employed by some Australian ministers in their responses to these kinds of American sentiments.
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Australia’s foreign policy explored in Allan Gyngell’s Fear of Abandonment
Originally published in The Australian.James Curran
![The allure of orthodoxy and the peril of sentimentality](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/USS_Intrepid.jpg?itok=Ke2hZHgb)
The allure of orthodoxy and the peril of sentimentality
It would be difficult to imagine Turnbull arriving in New York with nothing to offer Trump.
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Where India fits in an activist Australian foreign policy
Australia’s regional engagement in the years ahead can never be conceived within the US/China framework alone.
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Commentary
India and Australia eye the world according to Trump
There's a momentum towards greater cooperation among India, Japan, and Australia, writes James Curran in CFR's Asia Unbound blog on 9 March. Photo: Flickr/Us State Department…
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Joe Hockey and the limits of mateship
Australia can do better than this. Now is not the time to be retreating into wilful sentimentality.
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