One year into the Trump administration, Australians and Americans feel the world is more dangerous and that a weaker United States is less well-placed to deal with security threats. Exclusive survey data from...

America’s innovation success is built on the back of entrepreneurs who embrace experimentalism, risk, and failure. This culture has helped make the United States the unrivalled leader of the digital revolution because it...

In this US New & World Report article, USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer says we shouldn't let the president off the hook by blaming his anti-immigrant policies on his advisers.

Two years ago, Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev announced to European security officials that the world was entering a new cold war. The message has taken some time to trickle through. Just a...

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, an affair that resulted in Bill Clinton's impeachment. As tumultuous as the Clinton years were, in retrospect they seem a bit quaint...

There were significant threats to the security of Australia and the United States before Donald Trump was elected US President.

North Korea's nuclear ambitions are decades old, and China's militarisation of the South...

Researchers from the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney have released the results of an extensive comparison of public opinion on Donald Trump and perceptions of security and the...

At a security dialogue in Beijing a few years ago, one of our Chinese hosts asked me what I thought of the proposed One Belt, One Road initiative. I responded positively, looking at...

This time last year, foreign policy officials, commentators and leaders worldwide apprehensively awaited the new administration of a president whose opaque promise to put ‘America First’ left more questions than answers. A year...

The subdued atmosphere that accompanied Trump’s inauguration quickly turned to anger for many liberal Americans as protests quickly and repeatedly broke out across the country. So how did it feel to live in...

In her latest article for U.S. News, USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes about the big flaw in #MeToo criticism uncovered by the Aziz Ansari debate.

USSC visiting fellow Stephen Loosley reviews Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury for The Australian. Loosley writes that Wolff's account of the first year of the presidency is lightweight but engaging.

In this article published in The Washington Post, USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer weighs in on what a Bannon-free Breitbart means for it as a voice of Trumpism.

Could a Trump presidency simply be the forerunner of an Oprah presidency? After Oprah Winfrey's inspiring speech at the Golden Globe Awards that perfectly captured the righteous anger of the #Metoo movement, she...

Congressman Ed Royce, the 66 year-old chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, yesterday announced that he would not seek a 14th two-year term at the 2018 midterm elections.

Media's creation and coverage of Oprah's possible presidential ambition is emblematic of the rot at the core of contemporary political analysis, writes USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for US News & World...

The men of film, television, and radio who have been charged with sexual harassment and abuse are rapidly disappearing from the entertainment landscape as shows and movies they appear in are being pulled...

Steve Bannon went to war with Donald Trump. At least, he tried to. In recently published excerpts from Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Bannon lashed...

The Trump administration’s first national security strategy, released yesterday, is contradictory in places and ironic in others. Its policy prescriptions, when set against the actions of Donald Trump, are of questionable credibility.

But...

As Starc and Hazlewood were knocking over the English resistance in Perth, Australian hackers have been deploying a "Cyberline'' approach of their own.