QUT Centre for Justice member, Dr Morgan Rees, has published an article in the Australian Institute of International Affairs Australian Outlook on the implications of AUKUS for Australian foreign policy in context of the Trump presidency titled, “Built on ‘Hopes and Dreams’ – AUKUS and the Future of Australian Foreign Policy”
Morgan has been featured previously in a QUT Real Focus piece titled, “The return of the King? Donald Trump and the impending uncertainty for Australia and the AUKUS”, discussing what could be in stored for AUKUS – the pact put in place during the Biden administration intended to deepen the alliance between Australia, the US and the UK.
In this piece Morgan discusses what’s in store for this pact under a Trump administration and why it’s important.
Morgan’s research focuses on foreign policy analysis and International Relations theory. He studies the ways in which US Presidents have made critical decisions to use military force across key instances of humanitarian atrocities, and responses to terrorism. His book “Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy – Presidential Decision-Making in a Post-Cold War World” was published in November 2021 with Bristol University Press. In it, he develops a theoretical framework utilising discursive institutionalist theory to analyse and understand the confounding variation in the implementation of the use of force in foreign interventions. He has also published in the journals Contemporary Politics and International Relations on the foreign policy decision-making of Presidents Clinton and Obama. His current research examines the consequences and future implications of President Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy.
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