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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America’s defence strategy in the Indo-Pacific is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. Faced with an ever more capable and assertive China, the US military urgently needs to refocus on the requirements...
There has been a fundamental, bipartisan shift in the United States concerning the role and impact of China on the economy, especially as it relates to the future of digital and high-tech sectors...
As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies progress, the increasing autonomy of unmanned military systems will drive new operational concepts with the potential to transform modern war. The Indo-Pacific’s contested littoral sandboxes and...
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...
This article in the Australian looks at the United States Studies Centre's new report: Averting Crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific.
This article in the Financial Review reports on The United States Studies Centre's new report: Averting Crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific.
More than half the Australians surveyed in a Pew Research Centre poll of global attitudes and trends last year expressed increased concern over China's growing power and influence. This is hardly surprising given...
In a paper published by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, two top foreign policy thinkers say Australia must get used to its chief ally having a "sharper, broader...
