Why is US energy so inexpensive? Why is its electricity more reliable and pricing more transparent than Australia’s? Why are its carbon emissions declining faster relative to Australia? In this report we answer those questions, clarifying what’s at stake if Australian policymakers do not change course.
New USSC-YouGov polling suggests Americans are divided over President Trump's hardball tactics over trade with China as the tariff war threatens to spill into next year.
What were the moments that defined US foreign policy, domestic politics and the unfolding Russia investigation this year? Bruce Wolpe joins the podcast to wrap 2018 and forecast the issues likely to impact the 2020 campaign.
In the final edition of The 45th for the year, our staff select their top picks for books, films, podcasts and TV shows to devour over the holiday season.
In new research published by the USSC, author Stephen Kirchner recommends a number of measures Australia can take to improve its openness to the rest of the world and capture the associated economic and social benefits from globalisation.
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.
Australia and the United States have a lot in common: liberal, democratic institutions; advanced technology; largely open economies; growing populations; infrastructure needs; and above all, abundant energy resources.
But new research published by...
What were the moments that defined US foreign policy, domestic politics and the unfolding Russia investigation this year? Former Democratic Party advisor and chief of staff to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Bruce...
This week, Washington is funereal. Today, the city halts, the National Cathedral in repose as a pulpit of mourning. Partisanship ebbs from Capitol Hill. A White House muted. These are the traditions, pageantry...
Senior fellow Charles Edel looks back at Czeslaw Milosz' 1951 The Captive Mind for The Washington Post and examines the relevance of his account of the slide into authoritarianism that occurred in Poland...
The meeting between the US and Chinese presidents stole the headlines coming out of the G20 leaders’ meeting in Buenos Aires. Almost unreported was the failure of the Brisbane Action Plan that was...
It’s not unusual for most of us to find ourselves at the end of the year with a little less money in our accounts than we had hoped. But for the National Rifle...
While the rise of China poses serious challenges for the United States and its allies, these challenges are far from insurmountable. If American policymakers can make sound decisions about how to evolve the...
This report recommends measures Australia can take to improve its openness to the rest of the world and capture the associated economic and social benefits from globalisation.
In early October the United States Studies Centre and YouGov polled 1,218 respondents in the United States and 1,039 in Australia to learn what voters in these two countries thought about key issues...
Why is US energy so inexpensive? Why is its electricity more reliable and pricing more transparent than Australia’s? Why are its carbon emissions declining faster relative to Australia? In this report we answer...
The Australian's Perry Williams takes an in-depth look at USSC's new report: 'It doesn't have to be this way: Australia's energy crisis, America's energy surplus'.
Angela Macdonald-Smith writes about the findings of the new USSC report 'It doesn't have to be this way: Australia's energy crisis, America's energy surplus' for the Australian Financial Review.
Alliance 21 Fellow Madelyn Creedon is quoted in this article published in The Australian Financial Review on China's strategic missle build-up. Creedon notes her concern about the onset of a new global arms...
