After America: Australia and the new world order: Vantage Point 1 - Softcover

Shortis, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1763662136 ISBN 13: 9781763662131

Publisher: Australia Institute Press, 2025

Synopsis

Big Ideas in Small Packages

Australian political leaders have bent the knee at the altar of American global leadership for decades, placing the ANZUS treaty at the centre of the nation's security. AUKUS has become the latest symbol of strategic solidarity. For Australia's governments, of whatever political persuasion, America continues to define the global rules-based order. Now that the American people have elected Donald Trump as the forty-seventh president, how will his presidency affect Australia's foreign policy, trade, climate action and approach to human rights? More importantly, will Australia be able to act in its own interests, or will it simply defer to Trump's idea of America?

Dr Emma Shortis draws on her long-standing research on America's place in the world, her discussions with some of Australia's most prominent policy-makers and commentators and her experience in America in the final days of the election campaign, to develop a picture of how the world is changing with a second Trump presidency and what choices Australia has in determining its own future.

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About the Author

Dr Emma Shortis draws on her long-standing research on America's place in the world, her discussions with some of Australia's most prominent policy-makers and commentators and her experience in America in the final days of the election campaign, to develop a picture of how the world is changing with a second Trump presidency and what choices Australia has in determining its own future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Australia Institute Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1763662136
• ISBN 13: 9781763662131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128