New research from the United States Studies Centre outlines key initiatives that promote how Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam can work more effectively with Australia and the United States on maritime security issues in the South China Sea.
With Asia’s ‘summit season’ upon us, new research from the United States Studies Centre finds the Biden administration’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific has been roughly on par with the first 18 months of the Trump administration. Faced with a deteriorating regional strategic environment, competing global demands, and growing regional concern for US isolationism, the need for senior US officials to ‘show up’ in the region have rarely been greater.
New polling from USSC provides unique insights into Australian, American and Japanese views of the major challenges confronting all three nations: from China’s geopolitical challenge to climate change and the vicissitudes in American democracy.
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While Australia and the United States already pursue a range of security cooperation activities in Southeast Asia, this report examines how they can work together to strengthen the maritime security resilience of key...
Full marks to the United States, in consultation with American allies, for announcing very early on that the missile in question was unlikely to be a Russian one. It prevented even further tragedies...
This month marks 11 years since Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama announced the ‘United States Force Posture Initiatives (USFPI)’. The rapid pace of China’s military modernisation and long-range...
The key analysis from the US midterms coverage over the past two weeks have been that the so-called “red wave” turned out to be a ripple and that the Republican Party underperformed. Former...
Last week the Yoon government announced its Indo-Pacific Strategy. This fresh look at the geopolitical dynamics of the region is long overdue. The government of Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in were obsessed with...
High-profile candidates who got the Trump-hug tended to be losers. But among critical Republican primary voters, the former president’s pull is as strong as ever, writes US Studies Centre's Research Associate Victoria Cooper.
Following the US midterm elections, 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida’s 10th congressional district will be the first of Generation Z to have a seat in the House of Representatives. Frost, born in...
Just before the 2022 midterm elections, I argued in Foreign Policy that a Republican victory in the House of Representatives would not be all bad for U.S. strategic competition with China because of...
Three of the world’s most powerful leaders – US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida – will travel to Sydney next year for a historic...
The United States and NATO have supplied Ukraine with vast amounts of military aid in the country's fight against invading Russian Federation forces. But a recent analysis reveals that Ukrainian artillery forces in...
Tom Corben, Research Fellow for Foreign Policy & Defence at United States Study Centre, speaks to The Royal United Services Institute of New South Wales at their 22 November 2022 Seminar titled “AUKUS...
USSC CEO Michael Green is quoted in this article by Greg Sheridan about Prime Minister Albanese's meeting with Chinese President Xi.
After months of speculation, the former president has officially announced he will be running for the Republican nominee in the 2024 US presidential election. Jared Mondschein, director of research at the United States...
