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Australia’s most senior diplomats will soon meet with their US counterparts in Washington DC for the annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN). AUSMIN is an opportunity to revisit progress made over the past year...
Dr Michael Green, CEO of US Studies Centre, writes for Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven R. Reed, Daniel M. Smith, and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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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...
High-profile candidates who got the Trump-hug tended to be losers. But among critical Republican primary voters, the former president’s pull is as strong as ever, writes US Studies Centre's Research Associate Victoria Cooper.
Following the US midterm elections, 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida’s 10th congressional district will be the first of Generation Z to have a seat in the House of Representatives. Frost, born in...
Since entering office, the Biden administration has embraced its predecessors’ view that the Indo-Pacific is the priority theatre for US foreign policy. President Biden and his foreign policy advisors advance that the United...
Just before the 2022 midterm elections, I argued in Foreign Policy that a Republican victory in the House of Representatives would not be all bad for U.S. strategic competition with China because of...
Let us begin with a fable. In 1974, as Richard Nixon struggled with the continuing fallout from the Watergate scandal, accompanied by plunging poll support, the White House looked at how best to...
It was not the midterm election the Republicans expected, and certainly not the result they wanted. Republicans are poised to take the House of Representatives, but far short of the gains they sought.
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On average, the US president’s political party loses 28 seats in the House of Representatives and four Senate seats in their first midterm elections. While votes continue to be tallied, early results indicate...
Ahead of tomorrow’s midterm elections, the future control of the US Senate is more unknown than ever, with polling continuing to show the Democrats and Republicans are neck-and-neck in key swing states.
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There is one word to describe the United States midterm elections: volatile. As Ron Brownstein of The Atlantic has noted, the past four American presidents were elected with their party controlling both the...
If anyone had any doubts about the degree of hyperpartisanship in the United States, the latest United States Studies Centre research on public opinion in the United States fully captures the immense divisiveness...
For four years, as an increasingly belligerent China breathed down their necks, the United States’ allies in Asia quietly endured a torrent of abuse from President Donald Trump. Under President Joe Biden, they...
Dr Michael Green, CEO of US Studies Centre, writes in the Foreign Policy magazine how the divided government could be just what is needed to unite Americans around the administration’s China policies.
The US Congress wields considerable influence over US engagement with the world. Though US foreign policy is primarily directed from the White House, it is Congress that has oversight and final approval of...
In this essay published for Asia Policy by The National Bureau of Asian Research, USSC Research Fellow Dr Peter Lee and the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (Australian National University) Senior Lecturer in...
