After America

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Big Ideas in Small Packages</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>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?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>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.</span></p>