The Foreign Policy and Defence Program is committed to providing policy-oriented research and analysis on American strategic policy and the United States-Australia alliance, with a focus on developments in the Indo-Pacific.
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Deterring the use of armed force and other forms of coercion is central to the maintenance of order in the Indo-Pacific. Yet from the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, to space...
The US Congress plays an important albeit limited and context-dependent role shaping US foreign policy in Asia. During President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, the Republican-majority Congress appropriated two major increases...
Two of Donald Trump's top security advisers have paid a rare visit to the Pacific in another sign that the United States is intent on thwarting China's strategic ambitions in the region.
The...
Two of Donald Trump's top security advisers have paid a rare visit to the Pacific in another sign that the United States is intent on thwarting China's strategic ambitions in the region. Ashley...
Washington Post columnist Max Boot references a new book by Charles Edel, The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, in his opinion editorial on President Trump's reported plans to vastly increase...
Air shows like that held at Avalon last week are usually industry-heavy affairs. Lots of announcements regarding new widgets and dealmaking between industry players, all with fighter jets screaming overhead.
But outgoing Defence...
Director of USSC's Foreign Policy and Defence Program Ashley Townshend spoke to The Australian Financial Review about the collapsed talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. He says that the US...
The US Studies Centre’s James Brown says in this interview on Sky that Donald Trump’s failure to secure a nuclear disarmament deal with North Korea is a ‘loss’ for the President. The second...
