Are you a well-established researcher keen to lead a research program at Australia’s leading think tank on the United States? We are seeking three Program Directors to oversee the Centre's research programs for Emerging Technology; Foreign Policy and Defence; and Political Economy, Trade and Investment. Applications are now open.
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 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.
USSC CEO Dr Michael Green writes in The Straits Times that Russian aggression and the Xi-Putin partnership are spurring a counterbalancing response as seen in the gathering of US Atlantic and Pacific allies...
In recent years, scholars have debated the apparent lack of diplomatic leadership by “middle powers” like Australia and South Korea on the international stage. Such pessimism should be reconsidered, however, in light of...
Seventy-one years ago representatives of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States signed the ANZUS mutual security treaty in San Francisco to reinforce stability in East Asia after the outbreak of the Korean...
The gifted and personable incoming US Ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, is the living link to a period in American public life that is now the lost legend of Camelot: “Don’t let it...
Mass shootings in the United States are all too common and, sadly, unsurprising to much of the world.
But when the victims of such violence are primary school students, the world takes notice.
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The US Studies Centre resident expert and Associate Professor David Smith talks to Breann Fallon at ABC Radio National about how religion, nationalism and politics all come into play in the gun control...
USSC's Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe talks to ABC TV's Afternoon Briefing about the US Supreme Court abortion decision, which has rocked the nation. Interview begins at 20.35mins
USSC Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe tells ABC TV the American democracy is under pressure after the Supreme Court removed the constitutional right to have an abortion.
USSC's Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe talks to ABC radio's The World Today on the latest developments from the January 6 Committee hearings, and how the unfolding evidence is becoming pivotal in American political...
Anthony Albanese faces a political conundrum over Julian Assange, juggling tension between civil libertarian calls for him to be freed and a US ally with its own domestic political considerations, when deciding what...
As China expands its military influence across the Indo Pacific, these are epic times of complexity and unbridled strategic competition. USSC CEO Dr Michael Green tells The Australian that Australia is in the...
