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John Mearsheimer: Will Israel and Ukraine derail the US pivot to Asia
John MearsheimerOctober 26, 2023
CIS Executive Director Tom Switzer’s interview with Professor Mearsheimer on ABC Radio National....
John Mearsheimer: ABC interview excerpts
John MearsheimerOctober 23, 2023ABC Radio Queensland

While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak...

The State Of American Politics and Discourse
Tom Switzer, Jason RileyAugust 24, 2023

On Monday, 31 July our 2023 John Bonython lecturer, Jason Riley and Naomi Schaefer Riley,...

Losing focus: Will Ukraine and now Israel derail the US pivot to contain China?
John Mearsheimer, Tom Switzer, Peter VargheseJuly 7, 2023
CIS welcomes John Mearsheimer to Brisbane on Monday, October 23 for an exclusive discussion panel...
Andrew Neil at CIS
Andrew NeilMay 4, 2023
Conversation with Andrew Neil at CIS...
The West as we know it faces a serious crisis
Maya KuranaMarch 23, 2023
The post-Cold War era has resolutely ended with the Russian attack on Ukraine and China...
Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
Zoe Hilton, Michael StutchburyDecember 18, 2025IA154
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising...
Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Julie ClaridgeDecember 11, 2025AP97
Anti-Zionism has evolved to create a further mutation of antisemitism, cloaking bias and discrimination in...
Politics of Pressure: how government intervention left us short of gas
Grahame CampbellDecember 4, 2025AP96

Introduction Australia’s natural gas sector has transformed dramatically between 1975 and 2025. What began...

Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars
Sinclair DavidsonNovember 27, 2025AP95

Executive Summary Australia’s tobacco control policy has reached a breaking point. For decades, bans on...

Childcare in Australia: A new approach
Gigi FosterNovember 20, 2025RR51

Executive summary Several well-known bodies, from the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition and Consumer...

Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility
Robert CarlingNovember 13, 2025AP94

Executive Summary Fiscal rules are numerical limits to one or more of government spending, revenue,...

Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Tom SwitzerMarch 4, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic...

Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Andrew BlythSeptember 3, 2024SPECTATOR

Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive...

It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
Tom SwitzerAugust 10, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have...

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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Tom SwitzerJune 10, 2024MODERN AGE

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired...

Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
Tom SwitzerMarch 7, 2024SPECTATOR UK

When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America,...

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
Tom SwitzerFebruary 24, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia...

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