The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (USSC) is pleased to announce the appointment of two Alliance 21 Fellows for 2018.

Madelyn Creedon, former Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear...

Partisanship has become the dominant driver of social and political conflict in the United States and state-federal relations are increasingly conducted in the same vituperative style as Capitol Hill partisanship. This will have...

Both the United States and Australia rely on foreign direct investment (FDI) as a major source of capital to fund domestic investment and economic growth. But while most foreign acquisitions do not raise...

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...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Minister for Defence Marise Payne will today meet with their US counterparts, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, for the Australia-US Ministerial...

The funding allocated in this year’s federal budget and administered by the American Australian Association Ltd. will assist the United States Studies Centre at The University of Sydney and the Perth USAsia Centre...

Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon. Penny Wong will join the United States Studies Centre on Wednesday, July 18 for an address on the...

The Trump administration's withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is part of a broader US deprioritisation of human rights internationally, at the same time as China, Russia and other states have grown more...

As the space sector becomes critical to Australia's economic growth and national security in the coming decades, Canberra has reached bi-partisan consensus in establishing Australia’s first space agency. The difficult question for policymakers is how...

As Australia embarks on its first publicly-funded airport project in more than three decades with Western Sydney Airport in Badgerys Creek, a new report released today by the United States Studies Centre looks...

As campaigning gets underway ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, the United States Studies Centre has today released a new report looking at the potential congressional make-up post-November, the impact on the Trump...

To what degree can Donald Trump reshape the office of the presidency and transform America’s place in the world? Is the Trump presidency an outlier or the shape of things to come?

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New polling from the United States Studies Centre (USSC) and YouGov shows that Australians have significantly higher levels of trust in the government, the media and other major institutions than their American counterparts.

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The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney has today released a report detailing how Australia can overcome the stigma around entrepreneurial failure by drawing on insights from the US experience.

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The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (USSC) has announced the appointment of Dr Stephen Kirchner as the director of its new Trade and Investment program and Ashley Townshend as...

The United States is facing multiple challenges to sustaining its military-technological edge in the Indo-Pacific. But could its "Third Offset" strategy be the key to bolstering its military power in the region?

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The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney (USSC) today released an online interactive report using the Global Innovation Index (GII) to compare Australia and the United States' innovation performance.

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Following yesterday's deadline for submissions in Australia's marriage survey, the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney will release exclusive polling data on attitudes to same-sex marriage in Australia and...

The founders of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, in Australia to accept the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize, will today join the ABC's Stan Grant in conversation about the birth of the protest movement...

Following President Trump’s withdrawal from the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), competition has re-emerged over the future of Asia’s trade architecture, pitting a reformulated TPP-11 against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) favoured by...