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Tom Switzer
Research Fellow
Tom Switzer is a former Senior Adviser to the federal Opposition Leader, Opinion Editor of The Australian, an editorial writer at the Australian Financial Review and an Assistant Editor at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He has also been a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations at Sydney University.
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New world leaders and the politics of power
IPA Review | March 2009 In early 2008, David Cameron said he greatly admired Barack Obama and pledged to bring some of the same uplifting spirit of change and renewal that the American Democrat generated in the US to the British political scene....
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