As state-backed disinformation and cyber-attack risks soar in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from the United States Studies Centre details ten policy recommendations for the upcoming AUSMIN meeting which will enable the government to move quickly to mitigate risks and optimise outcomes.
Please join us as some of the officials behind the AUSFTA — John Howard OM AC, Arthur Sinodinos AO, Joe Hockey, Robert Zoellick, Wendy Cutler and Michael Thawley AO — discuss the future of the US-Australia economic relationship in an era of economic uncertainty and US-China strategic competition.
New research published by USSC finds that Australia’s deep enmeshment with the United States’ scientific infrastructure, coupled with its geopolitical and economic relationship with China, will leave it increasingly vulnerable as the US Congress and the Trump administration move to protect Washington’s technological advantage over Beijing.
Updated daily, the United States Studies Centre is comparing the number of cases, tests and deaths attributed to COVID-19 in both Australia and the United States.
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.
Take with a large grain of salt the diplomatic denials that the 2020 Strategic Defence Update and commitment to spend $270bn on defence across the next decade is all about one country. There...
A fourth horseman of the American apocalypse - foreign policy - has rudely barged into US politics, joining the pandemic, economic collapse, and racial justice as fissures scarring America's political landscape.
Last week...
Kanye West, American rapper and partner to Kim Kardashian, has confirmed he's planning to run for president of the United States. He was once a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, but he...
The 4th of July is an important date for many to reflect on the ideals enshrined in the US Declaration of Independence: freedom, nationhood, and the unalienable rights of the people to life...
As much as Democratic presential candidate Joe Biden campaigned in the Democratic primaries as a moderate, he is using the coronavirus lockdown to collaborate with leaders of the progressive wing of his party...
The key to understanding John Bolton is through his career and what he wanted to achieve with it. Bolton has served every Republican president since Ronald Reagan as Assistant Attorney General, then Assistant...
In an interview with ABC Radio's The Signal, Ashley Townshend, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, weighed in on the Australian government's recently announced $270 billion defence strategy.
In a period of isolation, many Australians and Americans are having fewer and fewer interactions with the outside world. When a person's visual horizons have largely shrunk to boundaries of their home and...
Much like the rest of the world, Europe’s post-war security has been disproportionately guaranteed by the US – as the US continues to embrace isolationism and buckle under the weight of COVID, great power competition...
US Studies Centre Non-Resident Fellow James Brown told Sky News that Australia will need to make some tough decisions in order to protect its national interests as it navigates increasingly difficult international relations.
With less than four months before the November 3 United States election, Kanye West has tweeted that he's running for president. Experts say he can technically join the race but it won't be...
The Australian government has ordered the military to focus mainly on Australia’s backyard, to acquire longer-range missiles to build up its own ability to deter threats from countries such as China, and cautioned...
The list of China's international spats is rising daily, but what is driving Beijing's increasingly assertive stance on the world stage, and will it backfire? In this analysis published by the Australian Financial...
