Explainer Series
What is the importance of the
2024 US election outcome?
July 2024
Professor Gordon Flake
Chief Executive Officer, Perth USAsia Centre
Gordon Flake has spent twenty-five years in the US foreign policy community focused on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia and now ten years in Australia’s Indian Ocean capital and is considered an expert on key strategic relationships in the broader Indo-Pacific. He has authored many scholarly and policy studies on security developments in the region, and their policy implications for the US and its regional partners. He is a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia (AmCham) and serves on the board of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Prior to joining the Centre, he was the Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, an Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at The Atlantic Council of the United States, and Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America.
Watch the Explainer
The highly anticipated rematch between Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Joe Biden, and former President and Republican Party candidate Donald Trump will be watched closely worldwide.
In this special edition explainer, Professor Gordon Flake explores the the implications of this election’s result for international politics. He postulates the outcome will be “a clear indication as to whether or not [Trump’s election in] 2016 was an aberration, or if there’s something more fundamentally changed inside US politics.”
*The footage in this series was recorded prior to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024.