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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”.
Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
Brendon’s research interests are in US foreign policy, US elections and democracy, US presidential politics, US-Australia relations, ideology, and conservatism.
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