"Never in AUSMIN's 33-year history have Australian decision-makers been less confident about the president's willingness to carry out the wishes of America's national security bureaucracy. For Australia, this presents a formidable challenge."
Australians report higher levels of anxiety than Americans on issues like climate change, and virtually identical levels of anxiety about the affordability of healthcare despite Australia’s stronger social safety net, according to new research from the United States Studies Centre.
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, joined the United States Studies Centre for an address looking at the role of the United States in Asia.
In a rare reversal, President Donald Trump has corrected comments he made during Monday's Helsinki press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid rising rebuke by Republicans and Democrats.
Donald Trump's belligerence towards his allies in Europe should not hide how busy he is unpicking the old Pacific order, even in the face of a rising China, writes USSC Director of Foreign Policy and Defence Ashley Townshend.
Following the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, USSC Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr Elsina Wainwright took a look at the United States' wider deprioritisation of human rights abroad.
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.
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, joined the United States Studies Centre for an address looking at the role of the...
The space sector is undergoing rapid geostrategic, technological and industrial change and will be critical to Australian national security and economic growth in coming decades. New actors, like private commercial enterprises, are driving...
Arizona Republican John McCain is among the most powerful people to have occupied a US Senate seat. An undoubted war hero (despite the trashing of his reputation by Donald Trump) who suffered mightily...
Republicans issued widespread denunciations of President Trump. Yet this is highly unlikely to be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
Washington is shifting its attention to strategic technology competition with Beijing. While long pushed in the Pentagon, other government branches like Congress, federal departments and even lobbyists are now advocating and investing in...
US President Donald Trump’s Helsinki press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin casts in stark relief his striking regard for authoritarian leaders. It is consistent with his systematic downgrading of the promotion of...
Following a landslide victory in Mexico's presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is president-elect of one the world's most populous democracies.
The political coalition he leads, Juntos Haremos Historia - which encompasses the...
As Australia embarks on its first publicly-funded airport project in more than three decades with Western Sydney Airport in Badgerys Creek, there are lessons and insights to be taken from the US experiences...
Lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy Dr Gorana Grgic spoke to ABC Radio's 'The World Today' program about the affect that President Trump's about-face on his statements about Russia meddling in the...
Never in AUSMIN's 33-year history have Australian decision-makers been less confident about the president's willingness to carry out the wishes of America's national security bureaucracy. For Australia, this presents a formidable challenge.
The CEO of the United States Studies Centre Professor Simon Jackman spoke to The Australian Financial Review about the changing discussions regarding the status of the Australia-US relationship.
Professor Jackman says the behaviour...
USSC lecturer in American studies Dr Rodney Taveira authored the chapter The Divine Violence of Underworld USA in the book The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World.
James Ellroy's identity as...
Australians report higher levels of anxiety than Americans on issues like climate change, and virtually identical levels of anxiety about the affordability of healthcare despite Australia’s stronger social safety net, according to new...
