A comprehensive comparison of public opinion in Australia and the United States on topics ranging from social security, abortion, the #MeToo movement, climate change, gun control, the future of work, China and trade overwhelmingly concludes that Americans and Australians aren’t as similar as we might assume.
President Donald Trump has arrived in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum as the start of the Senate impeachment trial in Washington has been mired by familiar scenes of hyperpartisanship.
After a marathon fortnight of congressional impeachment hearings, the United States Studies Centre has assembled a compilation of essays by its experts to comment on the discussions occurring behind doors, the arguments that will play out in public, and the precedents being set and broken every day that this process unfolds.
A new USSC report argues that the United States' National Technology and Industrial Base – a congressionally-mandated multilateral framework which includes Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada – has only managed to facilitate some limited bilateral cooperation between members, rather than the goal of fostering a 'defence free-trade area'.
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.
After two years of negotiations, the US and China have signed a "phase one" economic and trade agreement that has forestalled further increases in US tariffs on imports from China. Equity markets rallied...
This is one of the great American political biographies of recent years, an extraordinary work that captures the mercurial American diplomat at his inspiring best and appalling worst. Internationally, only Andrew Roberts’s magnificent...
Get ready for the split-screen presidency: televised proceedings in Congress to remove Trump from office occurring with near-simultaneous video of Trump exercising the powers of the presidency.
The first hint of what is...
Predictions of the US dollar’s demise are a recurring staple of financial market commentary. The equally routine failure of these predictions reflects widespread misunderstanding of the sources of the US dollar’s role in...
Days after a US drone strike killed a top-ranking Iranian general, Iran has retaliated, striking two US airbases in Iraq with ballistic missiles.
On ABC 7.30, Michael Rowland speaks to former Australian army...
Iran has broken an American president before. In 1979, Iranians under the aegis of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stormed the US embassy in Tehran, taking 52 diplomats hostage.
All of president...
USSC lecturer in American Studies Aaron Nyerges reviews Adina Hoffman's biography of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters. The review was published by The Australian Book Review.
Since the 1990s, violent crimes and homicides have declined substantially in the United States. However, mass shootings have defied this trend.
In 2019, there has been more than one mass shooting per day...
The “big fight” for Trump’s Senate trial will be centred on whether additional witnesses will be allowed to testify, Gorana Grgic said in an interview with CNBC.
Research on interest rates by USSC director of trade and investment Stephen Kirchner is referred to in this article published by the Sydney Morning Herald.
It is easier to buy a gun than it is to vote in Florida. There are many proposed solutions to the United States’ gun problem, but gun licensing is one that has correlated...
The US Studies Centre's James Brown says in this Sky News interview that the US Democratic Party is "so divided" that even "the New York Times can't pick who should be leading it"...
The Senate trial of US President Donald Trump is about to begin. In this article, ABC News explains what to expect as it all plays out. USSC senior fellow Bruce Wolpe is quoted...
