The United States Studies Centre’s (USSC) second annual flagship State of the United States report (SOTUS) reviews the political, economic and policy developments in the United States of vital relevance to Australian national interests. In this year’s edition, Biden’s agenda in the balance, USSC researchers analyse both where US politics and policy is tracking one year into the Biden administration and as well as extensive polling of both Australian and US public opinion.
The Alliance at 70 commemorates the Alliance between Australia and the United States on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco on 1 September 1951. This lavishly-produced coffee-table book features a foreword by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and contributions by President George W Bush, Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Prime Minister John Howard, Julie Bishop, Paul Hogan, David Petraeus, Dennis Richardson and Rob Sitch, among others.
The USSC's Small Grants Program supports research projects on topics aligned with the Centre's research strategy. Topics of interest range from charting US return to leadership in multilateral fora, to climate and energy policy developments, and protecting democratic institutions from foreign interference and misinformation. Requests for up to $25,000 will be considered with proposals accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis.
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is a university-based research centre, dedicated to the rigorous analysis of American foreign policy, economics, politics and culture.
In an unprecedented move, a draft US Supreme Court opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to POLITICO on Monday 2 May.
Sending shockwaves through the United States and beyond, the statement read...
Joe Hockey served as Australia’s ambassador to the United States in the last year of President Barack Obama’s term and throughout Donald Trump’s presidency. Diplomatic is his memoir of those tumultuous, extraordinary times.
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The brilliant film director Stanley Kubrick captured on celluloid the absurdities of the first Cold War. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a wickedly funny...
Young Americans have given up on politics. Not to sound too much like my fellow young folk, but this isn’t exactly tea (or, ‘new news’, for the boomers at the back).
At first...
Any sort of analysis that tries to draw lessons from an evolving event such as an ongoing major war is a potentially futile task. On the one hand, there is a fog of...
The United States Studies Centre (USSC) has appointed world-renowned Indo-Pacific expert Dr Michael J. Green as its new Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation.
Dr Green was Senior Vice President for Asia...
USSC non-resident senior fellow Bruce Wolpe writes for Pearls and Irritations that the United States always votes 1-Australia, and that is where Biden is. Should Labor form government, Albanese will be warmly received...
With South Korean defence firm Hanwha breaking ground for its armoured vehicle production facility in Victoria, USSC research fellow Peter Lee - an Indo-Pacific security expert - says the incoming Yoon administration shows...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi met in secret in Kyiv over the weekend, a week after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken...
USSC director of foreign policy and defence Ashley Townshend is quoted by Defence Connect in this article.
This Australian Financial Review article refers to comments made by Foreign Minister Marise Payne during a speech hosted by the United States Studies Centre.
