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Professor Brendon O'Connor

Deputy Head of School (Teaching)

Discipline of Government and International Relations
US Studies Centre

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brendon.oconnor@sydney.edu.au

Address

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building

The University of Sydney

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Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

Brendon O'Connor is the author of A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas have Consequences and Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA. He is the co-author of Ideologies of American Foreign Policy and How America Compares. He has also edited seven books on anti-Americanism. Brendon was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgetown University in 2006, a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC in 2008 and 2015, and is a life member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on two new manuscripts “The Ugly American: From Jefferson to Trump” and “Conservative International Relations: From Reagan to Trump”.

PhD and master's project opportunities

American Political History

Selected publications

Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA

(Routledge, 2020)

How America Compares

(Springer, 2020)

Ideologies of American Foreign Policy

(Routledge, 2019)

American Foreign Policy Traditions

(Sage Publications, 2010)

Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources

(Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2007)

Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives

(Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2007)

Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century

(Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2007)

Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives

(Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., 2007)

The Rise of Anti-Americanism

(Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2006)

A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas have Consequences

(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc, 2004)

Publications

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Books

O'Connor, B. (2020). Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Tiffen, R., Gauja, A., O'Connor, B., Gittins, R., Smith, D. (2020). How America Compares. Singapore: Springer. [More Information]
Callaghan, J., O'Connor, B., Phythian, M. (2019). Ideologies of American Foreign Policy. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2004). A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas have Consequences. Lanham, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.

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Edited Books

O'Connor, B. (2010). American Foreign Policy Traditions. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2006). The Rise of Anti-Americanism. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Book Chapters

O'Connor, B., Cooper, D. (2022). Australian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century. The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy & Statecraft. London: Routledge. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2015). Buying into American Dreams: US Presidential Elections, Exceptionalism, and Global Power. In Georgina Banita, Sascha Pohlmann (Eds.), Electoral Cultures, (pp. 283-307). Germany: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg.
MacDonald, D., O'Connor, B. (2012). Special Relationships: Australia and New Zealand in the Anglo-American World. In Peter J. Katzenstein (Eds.), Anglo-America and its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East, (pp. 176-203). Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2010). America's Conflicting Foreign Policy Traditions: An Introduction. In Brendan OConnor (Eds.), American Foreign Policy Traditions, (pp. xxi-xxxviii). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2010). The Anti-American Tradition: An Introduction. In Brendan OConnor (Eds.), American Foreign Policy Traditions, (pp. vii-xxii). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
O'Connor, B. (2007). A History of Anti-Americanism: From Buffoon to Bush. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives, (pp. 1-27). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism in Australia. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives, (pp. 37-57). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Australian Public Opinion and the Australia-U.S. Alliance. In Jeffrey D. McCausland, Douglas T. Stuart, William T. Tow, Michael Wesley (Eds.), The other special relationship: the United States and Australia at the start of the 21st century, (pp. 161-177). Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute.
O'Connor, B. (2007). George W. Bush and Anti-Americanism. In Brendon OConnor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century, (pp. 1-18). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2007). Introduction: Blame It on Bush? In Brendon OConnor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century, (pp. xv-xxi). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Causes and Sources of Anti-Americanism. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources, (pp. xiii-xix). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Comparative Perspectives. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives, (pp. xiii-xviii). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Historical Perspectives. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives, (pp. xiii-xix). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). What is anti-Americanism? In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources, (pp. 1-21). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2006). Australasia. In Mary Buckley and Robert Singh (Eds.), The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism, (pp. 136-149). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2006). Introduction: Making sense of anti-Americanism. In Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), The Rise of Anti-Americanism, (pp. 1-7). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
O'Connor, B. (2006). The anti-American tradition. In Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), The Rise of Anti-Americanism, (pp. 11-24). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Conley, T., O'Connor, B. (2004). Trade Policy: Moving Towards Freer Trade? In Elizabeth van Acker and Giorel Curran (Eds.), Governing Business and Globalisation, (pp. 140-160). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education.

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Journals

O'Connor, B., Cox, L., Cooper, D. (2022). The ideology of American Exceptionalism: American Nationalisms nom de plume. Journal of Political Ideologies. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Cooper, D. (2021). Ideology and the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama: A Liberal-Realist Approach to International Affairs. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 51(3), 635-666. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Cox, L. (2012). Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars: 'Hound Dog, not Lapdog'. Australian Journal of Political Science, 47(2), 173-187. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Vucetic, S. (2010). Another Mars-Venus divide? Why Australia said 'yes' and Canada said 'non' to involvement in the 2003 Iraq War. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(5), 526-548. [More Information]
MacDonald, D., O'Connor, B. (2010). Reflections on anti-Americanism in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review, 10/11, 43-62.
O'Connor, B., Delaney, K. (2009). The ABC and Anti-Americanism: The Case of the 2003 Iraq War and Minister Alston. Australian Journal of Political Science, 44(3), 389-404. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2007). Dating Clinton: Memoirs of the Clinton Era. White House Studies, 7(4), 389-398.
O'Connor, B. (2006). Bush vs Guardian: 1-0. Griffith Review, , 154-157.
O'Connor, B. (2005). Beyond the Cartoon: George W. Bush and his Biographers. Political Studies Review.
O'Connor, B. (2004). A Brief History of anti-Americanism: from cultural criticism to terrorism. Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), , 77-92.
O'Connor, B. (2004). Are We All Americans Now? The Superpower and its Critics. Australian Journal of Political Science, 39(2), 421-426. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2004). Bush-Bashing: The hated and the haters. Griffith Review, , 213-221.
O'Connor, B. (2004). Perspectives on Australian foreign policy, 2003. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58(2), 207-220. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2002). Policies, Principles and Polls: Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics 1992-1996. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48(3), 396-411.

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Conferences

O'Connor, B. (2019). Populism and Popular Culture. Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, Auckland: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association.
O'Connor, B. (2019). What is Populism? Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, Auckland: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

O'Connor, B., Dixon, D. (2019). Two dozen candidates, one big target: in a crowded Democratic field, who can beat Trump? The Conversation. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Dixon, D. (2018). The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simple. The Conversation. [More Information]

Reference Works

O'Connor, B. (2012). Anti-Americanism.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism. In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. (pp. 17-20). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Homogenization of World Culture. In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. (pp. 154-157). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Sports. In Karen Christensen and David Levinson (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and ideas shaping international relations. (pp. 355-357). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B. (2005). Anti-Americanism. In Martin Griffiths (Eds.), encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 22-24). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Chiddick, J., O'Connor, B. (2005). Isolationism. In Martin Griffiths (Eds.), encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 469-472). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Other

O'Connor, B. (2019), Ideologies of American Foreign Policy.
O'Connor, B. (2019), Is there a conservative approach to foreign policy? From Reagan to Trump.
O'Connor, B. (2019), When Politics goes Jerry Springer: Trump, Populism and popular culture.

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2022

O'Connor, B., Cooper, D. (2022). Australian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century. The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy & Statecraft. London: Routledge. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Cox, L., Cooper, D. (2022). The ideology of American Exceptionalism: American Nationalisms nom de plume. Journal of Political Ideologies. [More Information]

2021

O'Connor, B., Cooper, D. (2021). Ideology and the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama: A Liberal-Realist Approach to International Affairs. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 51(3), 635-666. [More Information]

2020

O'Connor, B. (2020). Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Tiffen, R., Gauja, A., O'Connor, B., Gittins, R., Smith, D. (2020). How America Compares. Singapore: Springer. [More Information]

2019

Callaghan, J., O'Connor, B., Phythian, M. (2019). Ideologies of American Foreign Policy. Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2019), Ideologies of American Foreign Policy.
O'Connor, B. (2019), Is there a conservative approach to foreign policy? From Reagan to Trump.
O'Connor, B. (2019). Populism and Popular Culture. Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, Auckland: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association.
O'Connor, B., Dixon, D. (2019). Two dozen candidates, one big target: in a crowded Democratic field, who can beat Trump? The Conversation. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2019). What is Populism? Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association, Auckland: Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association.
O'Connor, B. (2019), When Politics goes Jerry Springer: Trump, Populism and popular culture.

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2018

O'Connor, B., Dixon, D. (2018). The US midterm elections are being billed as a referendum on Trump, but it's not that simple. The Conversation. [More Information]

2015

O'Connor, B. (2015). Buying into American Dreams: US Presidential Elections, Exceptionalism, and Global Power. In Georgina Banita, Sascha Pohlmann (Eds.), Electoral Cultures, (pp. 283-307). Germany: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg.

2012

O'Connor, B. (2012). Anti-Americanism.
O'Connor, B., Cox, L. (2012). Australia, the US, and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars: 'Hound Dog, not Lapdog'. Australian Journal of Political Science, 47(2), 173-187. [More Information]
MacDonald, D., O'Connor, B. (2012). Special Relationships: Australia and New Zealand in the Anglo-American World. In Peter J. Katzenstein (Eds.), Anglo-America and its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East, (pp. 176-203). Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]

2010

O'Connor, B. (2010). America's Conflicting Foreign Policy Traditions: An Introduction. In Brendan OConnor (Eds.), American Foreign Policy Traditions, (pp. xxi-xxxviii). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2010). American Foreign Policy Traditions. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
O'Connor, B., Vucetic, S. (2010). Another Mars-Venus divide? Why Australia said 'yes' and Canada said 'non' to involvement in the 2003 Iraq War. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(5), 526-548. [More Information]
MacDonald, D., O'Connor, B. (2010). Reflections on anti-Americanism in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review, 10/11, 43-62.
O'Connor, B. (2010). The Anti-American Tradition: An Introduction. In Brendan OConnor (Eds.), American Foreign Policy Traditions, (pp. vii-xxii). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.

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2009

O'Connor, B., Delaney, K. (2009). The ABC and Anti-Americanism: The Case of the 2003 Iraq War and Minister Alston. Australian Journal of Political Science, 44(3), 389-404. [More Information]

2007

O'Connor, B. (2007). A History of Anti-Americanism: From Buffoon to Bush. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives, (pp. 1-27). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism. In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. (pp. 17-20). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2007). Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Anti-Americanism in Australia. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives, (pp. 37-57). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Australian Public Opinion and the Australia-U.S. Alliance. In Jeffrey D. McCausland, Douglas T. Stuart, William T. Tow, Michael Wesley (Eds.), The other special relationship: the United States and Australia at the start of the 21st century, (pp. 161-177). Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Dating Clinton: Memoirs of the Clinton Era. White House Studies, 7(4), 389-398.
O'Connor, B. (2007). George W. Bush and Anti-Americanism. In Brendon OConnor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century, (pp. 1-18). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Homogenization of World Culture. In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. (pp. 154-157). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2007). Introduction: Blame It on Bush? In Brendon OConnor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 4: In the 21st Century, (pp. xv-xxi). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Causes and Sources of Anti-Americanism. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources, (pp. xiii-xix). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Comparative Perspectives. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism history, causes, and themes. Volume 3: Comparative Perspectives, (pp. xiii-xviii). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Introduction: Historical Perspectives. In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 2: Historical Perspectives, (pp. xiii-xix). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2007). Sports. In Karen Christensen and David Levinson (Eds.), Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and ideas shaping international relations. (pp. 355-357). Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing Group.
O'Connor, B. (2007). What is anti-Americanism? In Brendon OConnor (Eds.), Anti-Americanism History, Causes and Themes. Volume 1: Causes and Sources, (pp. 1-21). Oxford: Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.

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2006

O'Connor, B. (2006). Australasia. In Mary Buckley and Robert Singh (Eds.), The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism, (pp. 136-149). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2006). Bush vs Guardian: 1-0. Griffith Review, , 154-157.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2006). Introduction: Making sense of anti-Americanism. In Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), The Rise of Anti-Americanism, (pp. 1-7). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
O'Connor, B. (2006). The anti-American tradition. In Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths (Eds.), The Rise of Anti-Americanism, (pp. 11-24). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
O'Connor, B., Griffiths, M. (2006). The Rise of Anti-Americanism. London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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2005

O'Connor, B. (2005). Anti-Americanism. In Martin Griffiths (Eds.), encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 22-24). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
O'Connor, B. (2005). Beyond the Cartoon: George W. Bush and his Biographers. Political Studies Review.
Chiddick, J., O'Connor, B. (2005). Isolationism. In Martin Griffiths (Eds.), encyclopedia of international relations and global politics. (pp. 469-472). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2004

O'Connor, B. (2004). A Brief History of anti-Americanism: from cultural criticism to terrorism. Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), , 77-92.
O'Connor, B. (2004). A Political History of the American Welfare System: When Ideas have Consequences. Lanham, USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc.
O'Connor, B. (2004). Are We All Americans Now? The Superpower and its Critics. Australian Journal of Political Science, 39(2), 421-426. [More Information]
O'Connor, B. (2004). Bush-Bashing: The hated and the haters. Griffith Review, , 213-221.
O'Connor, B. (2004). Perspectives on Australian foreign policy, 2003. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58(2), 207-220. [More Information]
Conley, T., O'Connor, B. (2004). Trade Policy: Moving Towards Freer Trade? In Elizabeth van Acker and Giorel Curran (Eds.), Governing Business and Globalisation, (pp. 140-160). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Education.

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2002

O'Connor, B. (2002). Policies, Principles and Polls: Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics 1992-1996. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48(3), 396-411.

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