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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While Australia and the United States already pursue a range of security cooperation activities in Southeast Asia, this report examines how they can work together to strengthen the maritime security resilience of key...
This month marks 11 years since Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama announced the ‘United States Force Posture Initiatives (USFPI)’. The rapid pace of China’s military modernisation and long-range...
Last week the Yoon government announced its Indo-Pacific Strategy. This fresh look at the geopolitical dynamics of the region is long overdue. The government of Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in were obsessed with...
Full marks to the United States, in consultation with American allies, for announcing very early on that the missile in question was unlikely to be a Russian one. It prevented even further tragedies...
USSC CEO Michael Green is quoted in this article by Greg Sheridan about Prime Minister Albanese's meeting with Chinese President Xi.
US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (albeit separately) met with the Chinese President Xi Jinping amid the G20 summit happening in Indonesia this week. Dr Michael Green, the CEO...
US Studies Centre's Foreign Policy and Defence research fellow Tom Corben talks about how if the Republicans win the House — as they appear on track to, with a very slim majority —...
As Anthony Albanese prepares for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first leaders' meeting in five years, we ask whether to expect any tangible thawing of diplomatic relations. US Studies Centre's CEO...
