Dr Emma Shortis is Director of the Australia Institute's International & Security Affairs Program. Emma is a historian and writer. In a conversation often dominated by the same voices, Emma offers a fresh perspective on international relations grounded in moral questions about how we might imagine a post-America future. Her new book is After America: Australia and the New World Order.
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