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When Australia and the United States were negotiating their free-trade agreement in the early 2000s, Australia's regulation of foreign direct investment was a key stumbling block that nearly sank the deal.
One of...
In a speech to the Indo-Pacific Business Forum on 30 July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled the first new economic offerings of the Trump...
The silent and pivotal reality of today’s US politics is the continuing strength and resilience of Donald Trump’s electoral base.
Regardless of whatever controversy or fiasco engulfs the Trump White House, the base...
Spike Lee’s latest film BlackKklansman, which won the Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is based on real-life African American police officer Ron Stallworth (played by John David Washington, son...
Sacha Baron Cohen is back, with a new series called Who is America?. The British comedian, best known for his in-disguise interviews and political pranks, has set his sights on the United...
Campaigns, parties, interest groups, pollsters and political scientists rely on voter registration lists and consumer files to identify people as targets for registration drives, persuasion and mobilisation, and to be included in sampling...
Revelations that foreign and domestic intelligence agencies penetrated the communication networks of leading Australian mining firms, including Rio Tinto, provides an important lesson in how Australia should secure its vital interests in regulating...
Research fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program, Brendan Thomas-Noone and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Daniel Kliman wrote an article for Defense One providing a few...
This report outlines some of the national security issues raised by recent changes in the sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia and the United States. The regulatory regimes for screening FDI...
On September 20, 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria, a Category-4 storm likely killing thousands and costing an estimated US$90 billion in damages to an already financially-struggling island. A study from...
Yesterday, Julie Bishop and Marise Payne met their US counterparts in Palo Alto, California, for the annual AUSMIN talks between foreign and defence ministers from the two countries. It took place a week...
Australians report higher levels of anxiety than Americans on issues like climate change, and virtually identical levels of anxiety about the affordability of healthcare despite Australia’s stronger social safety net, according to new...
Never in AUSMIN's 33-year history have Australian decision-makers been less confident about the president's willingness to carry out the wishes of America's national security bureaucracy. For Australia, this presents a formidable challenge.
USSC lecturer in American studies Dr Rodney Taveira authored the chapter The Divine Violence of Underworld USA in the book The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World.
James Ellroy's identity as...
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, joined the United States Studies Centre for an address looking at the role of the...
The Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) are Australia’s principal forum for formal consultations with the United States. The talks are led by the Australian Foreign and Defence Ministers and their counterparts, the US...
As President Trump concluded his whirlwind visit to Europe, the dominant themes in the commentary of his trip include disbelief, outrage and concern. The president has yet again demonstrated that his foreign policy...
Republicans issued widespread denunciations of President Trump. Yet this is highly unlikely to be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
Washington is shifting its attention to strategic technology competition with Beijing. While long pushed in the Pentagon, other government branches like Congress, federal departments and even lobbyists are now advocating and investing in...
US President Donald Trump’s Helsinki press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin casts in stark relief his striking regard for authoritarian leaders. It is consistent with his systematic downgrading of the promotion of...
