Security and economic interests, in the guise of the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (seven of which hail from the Asia-Pacific), are causing anxiety among US friends and allies.
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Swinburne University political scientist Bryan Cranston makes his final US Election Day predictions.
Highly polarised media, be it on the left or the right, are a threat to democracy.
President Obama is right to say it’s very, very hard to rig an American election. That doesn’t mean things always go to plan.
Donald Trump is wrong: the US election can’t be rigged. But it’s a different story in Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Gabon and Mexico.
Insights from psychology, neuroscience, economics and political science on how the incoming president might move people from the extreme right or left of the political spectrum to a sociable centre.
Many evangelicals are backing Trump, so why hasn’t he caught fire with Mormons? A scholar of Mormons’ political beliefs counts the ways.
Tired of escalating health care costs, health care policymakers in Colorado have put a vote for universal coverage on the ballot in that state. Could the other states learn anything from it?
There has been much analysis on the rise of Donald Trump as the result of widespread social and economic unrest, but a look at the primaries shows it to be more of a quirk of the system.
Ranting narcissists with no patience for detail have terrorised and suppressed their people the world over. Is a new one about to join their ranks?
The Republicans’ hardline 1964 candidate famously said that ‘extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice’. Sound familiar?
Facing shortages in food and medicines, extreme political polarisation, and a spiraling economic crisis, Venezuelans find it hard to care about the adventures of Clinton v. Trump.
Kim Beazley's time as Australia's ambassador to the United States came to an end earlier this year, but he is riveted by next week's presidential election.
In less than a week, Americans will choose their next president. And either way, there are problems on a foerign policy level.
Race to the White House - Episode 8
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This week's episode focuses on how the re-emergence of the email scandal will impact Hillary Clinton in the final week of the campaign.
Outside the US, the Republican candidate is not liked at all - largely because he exemplifies some of the worst stereotypes about Americans.
If the US government is still split between the parties after November 8, the era of terminal gridlock will continue.
Donald Trump’s racist appeals to white fear may have doomed his campaign – and his party.
Donald Trump is the latest example of populism’s return to the global political landscape. Nine scholars from seven countries examine the link between populism and democracy.
In this special The Conversation project, scholars and commentators from around the world examine the rise of populism, and its implications, now and into the future.
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