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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Research fellow Brendan Thomas-Noone is interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald
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...
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...
China’s emergence as an economic and geopolitical power in the Asia-Pacific is causing tensions between traditional allies the U.S. and Australia, according to Sydney-based think tank, United States Studies Centre.
After more than 70 years of close co-operation, an assessment by Sydney University's United States Studies Centre says Australia and the US risk complacency in the bilateral relationship without a stocktake of differences...
