Books

• Curran, J. (2022). Australia's China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear. Sydney: UNSW Press.
• Curran, J. (2021). Campese: the last of the dream sellers. Melbourne: Scribe Publications.
• Curran, J. (2016). Fighting with America: Why saying no to the US wouldn't rupture the alliance. Sydney: Penguin Specials.
• Curran, J. (2015). Unholy Fury: Whitlam and Nixon at War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Curran, J. (2011). Curtin's Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
• Curran, J., Ward, S. (2010). The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
• Curran, J. (2004). The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image. Australia: Melbourne University Press.

Edited Books

• Curran, J., Ward, S. (2013). Australia and the Wider World: Selected Essays of Neville Meaney. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.

Book Chapters

• Broinowski, A., Curran, J. (2014). The US Alliance. In Daniel Baldino, Andrew Carr, Anthony J Langlois (Eds.), Australian Foreign Policy: Controversies and Debates, (pp. 118-133). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Curran, J. (2013). Republican Reset: The Lessons of History and a Way Ahead. In Benjamin T Jones and Mark McKenna (Eds.), Project Republic: Plans and Arguments for a New Australia, (pp. 141-154). Melbourne: Black Inc.
• Curran, J. (2012). 'The World Changes': Australia's China Policy in the Wake of Empire. In James Reilly and Jingdong Yuan (Eds.), Australia and China at 40, (pp. 22-43). Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press.
• Curran, J. (2010). The 'New Line in the Strand': John Armstrong and the 'New Nationalism'. In Carl Bridge, Frank Bongiorno and David Lee (Eds.), The High Commissioners: Australias Representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010, (pp. 164-181). Barton: WHH Publishing.

Journals

• Curran, J. (2023). Paul Keating: In Conversation with James Curran. Australian Foreign Affairs, (February).
• Curran, J. (2022). Has Australia Found the Right Answer to Chinese Aggression? The National Interest, (October).
• Curran, J. (2021). Seeing China Coming: Behind Paul Keating’s pact with Indonesia. The National Interest, (October).
• Curran, J. (2020). Who Lost Australia? The National Interest, 2020 (169), 79-91.
• Curran, J. (2019). China Syndrome. The National Interest, 2019 (159), 49-57.
• Curran, J. (2019). What should Australia do about PRC-US tensions? China Matters, (September).
• Curran, J. (2017). Mugged by Sentiment: Revamping the US alliance and surviving the forty-fifth president. Australian Foreign Affairs, October 2017(1).
• Curran, J. (2015). Beyond the Euphoria: Lyndon Johnson in Australia and the Politics of the Cold War Alliance. Journal of Cold War Studies, 17(1), 64-96. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2014). The Dilemmas of Divergence: The Crisis in American-Australian Relations, 1972-1975. Diplomatic History, 38(2), 377-408. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2013). Australia at empire's end: Approaches and arguments. History Australia, 10(3), 23-35. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2010). L'Australie, le Japon et l'heritage de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vingtieme Siecle - Revue d'histoire, 107, 115-129. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2009). 'An Organic Part of the Whole Structure': John Curtin's Empire. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 37(1), 51-75. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2008). 'Australia Should Be There': Expo '67 and the Search for a New National Image. Australian Historical Studies, 39(1), 72-90. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2002). The "Thin Dividing Line": Prime Ministers and the Problem of Australian Nationalism, 1972-1996. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48(4), 469-486. [More Information]

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Curran, J. (2020). 'Pact' a big step to the new strategic normal for Australia and Japan. Financial Review.
• Curran, J. (2020). Obama's memoir is an elegant elegy for the fraying thread that links the US. The Age.
• Curran, J. (2019). Australia's increasingly complex role in Asia. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2019). Australia's last Cold War prime minister. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2019). Can a publishing house divided stand? The Sydney Morning Herald. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2019). How did Labor manage to forget about aspiration? Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2019). Ruled by Britannia (book review). The Australian.
• Curran, J. (2018). All shot and no powder in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. East Asia Forum. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Australia cannot afford to be distracted by the cold war talk. The Australian. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Australia is navigating a diplomatic course between China and the US. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Australia's revolving-door politics a serious drag on Asia strategy. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Clash of ideologies feeds into the rivalry between the two power. The Australian. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Fighting the Fog of War (book review). The Australian.
• Curran, J. (2018). Is Trump the end of the line for American exceptionalism? Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). No Mattis miracles at Shangri-La as allies urged to keep the faith. East Asia Forum. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018). Not the war to end all wars but death's birthing place. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). An unprecedented president: world awaits Donald Trump. The Australian. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Australia contemplates America's shifting role in Asia. War on the Rocks. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Australia needs to adapt to the new circumstances of Trump's America. The Guardian. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Donald Trump's focus on home front hardly a surprise. The Sydney Morning Herald. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Fear of Abandonment (book review). The Australian.
• Curran, J. (2017). Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull's ANZUS offer on North Korea was premature. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). The case for recasting Australia's relationship with the US. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). The choice between sentiment and reality in US-Australia ties. East Asia Forum. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Trump exhumes the diplomatic carcass of the Security Quad. Australian Financial Review. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). Trump-Turnbull Meeting: The Danger of Australian Complacency. China US Focus. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). US self-belief tested by tardy return to being great again. The Australian. [More Information]

Report

• Curran, J. (2018). AMERICANISM, NOT GLOBALISM: PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE AMERICAN MISSION. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017). The Prime Ministers in America. [More Information]

Reference Works

• Curran, J. (2007). Australia-Britain. In Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics. (Vol. 1, pp. 66-69).

Other

• Curran, J. (2019), How Morrison Won and What His Win Means for the US-Australia Alliance. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018), Harry Harris and the ambassadorial absence. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2018), Julie Bishop: buffeted by headwinds. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017), Cracks in the U.S.-Australia Relationship. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017), Fighting with America: Facing up to the unpredictable.
• Curran, J. (2017), Foreign Policy White Paper sees a new Asia but pleads for the old. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017), India and Australia Eye the World According to Trump. [More Information]
• Curran, J. (2017), Joe Hockey and the limits of mateship.
• Curran, J. (2017), Moored to Memory: The Problem of the Past in U.S.-Australia Relations.
• Curran, J. (2017), Rhetorical arthritis won't sell an Australian republic.
• Curran, J. (2017), The allure of orthodoxy and the peril of sentimentality.
• Curran, J. (2017), The Trump/Turnbull transcript: the PM's parting gift.
• Curran, J. (2017), When will Australia acknowledge a changed America?.
• Curran, J. (2017), Where India fits in an activist Australian foreign policy.