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History shows what happens during a presidential transition can leave a lasting imprint on foreign policy.
Grandiose narcissists do not, or even cannot, recognise and acknowledge a failure could be their own.
President-elect Joe Biden has successfully enticed the young into politics. As he approaches his 78th birthday, will he also serve their interests?
How Donald Trump changed US foreign policy.
Trump has increased the appeal of American conservatism, even as he has complicated its meaning. His shadow will no doubt continue to loom large over the Republican Party.
With a handful of states still to be declared, it looks likely Joe Biden will win the electoral college vote by 306 to 232, he same margin with which Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
The ‘narrative’ of why Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020 is yet to be written, but there is no doubt Americans remain afraid, uncertain and deeply divided.
America might be coming back under the new US president, Joe Biden, but this is not the same world or the same country it once was.
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
When President Trump claimed in a press conference that the election was being stolen from him, three major TV networks cut off their coverage. A media scholar asks if this is a turning point.
A theologian argues, based on the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, that a political institution has its limits when it comes to being called ‘sacred.’
What did this year’s election maps rightly or wrongly tell us?
A religion scholar explains how Ronald Reagan invoked religion and shifted the American notion of a good society – a vision that might resonate with the politics of today.
The “idea” of America and its promise is at stake.
Indonesia is a strategic country for the United States and the cooperation between the two countries will only grow.
As the US president made unsubstantiated claims about the vote count, many of the major TV networks cut him off. Is this what’s best for democracy?
The opposition leader takes the extraordinary step of advising Scott Morrison to ring the US president to ask him to respect democratic processes.
The US is willing to ignore human rights violations committed by a country as long as it does not interfere with US interests.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
