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The relationship between the United States and any other country has implications across the globe. Foreign policy spans diplomacy including Australian and regional US diplomatic engagement, climate and clean energy cooperation, regional institutions, aid and development.
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Esther Soulard, a Senior Research Associate with the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre

Esther Soulard

Senior Research Associate, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited States Studies Centre
Brendon O'Connor, a Professor of US Politics and US Foreign Relations

Professor Brendon O'Connor

Professor of US Politics and US Foreign RelationsUnited States Studies Centre (jointly appointed with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney)
Shizuka Takada, a Japanese Research Associate working with Dr Michael J. Green

Shizuka Takada

Research AssociateUnited States Studies Centre
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Dr Lavina Lee

Director, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited States Studies Centre
Trent Scott

Trent Scott

Non-Resident Senior FellowUnited States Studies Centre
Christopher J. Watterson

Dr Christopher J. Watterson

Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited States Studies Centre
Technology

USSC Briefing Room | AI, hypersonics and the future of defence innovation with Doug Beck

Former Director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit Doug Beck joined the podcast to discuss how the United States is using AI, hypersonics and other advancements in defence innovation to get ahead of or even catch up to China in areas of technological advantage.
Podcast byDouglas A. Beck, Mari Koeck
Australian and US flags
Allies and partners
Public forum
The Australia-US alliance in the age of Trump: A national conversation

6 October 2026

6.00pm

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7.30pm AEDT

Past event
Trade and economics
Webinar
Can the US and allies loosen China's chokehold on rare earths?

30 September 2026

10.00am

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11.00am AEST

Watch Now
Thulium is precipitated from a solution on a microscope slide and photographed in polarised light
Trade and economics

The missing market: Why US and allies’ rare earth derisking needs a demand-side strategy

30 September 2026
Report byDr Naoise McDonagh
H.E. Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of China, H.E. Lee Myung-bak, President of the ROK and H.E. Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan at the 5th Trilateral Summit in Beijing, China.
Foreign policy

Moments of Agreement, Strategic Spaces: The Korea-China-Japan Trilateral Summits and the Reconstruction of the Indo-Pacific Security Order, 1999-2024

30 September 2026
Books and journals byDr Jooyeon Hong
A tanker vessel is pictured at the Baniyas oil terminal off the coast of Syria's Tartus province. The fuel is being transported to Iraq via Syria for the first time amid disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: Moawia Atrash/dpa (Photo by Moawia Atrash/picture alliance via Getty Images)
US politics

Why Trump rejected Iran's deal to re-open Strait of Hormuz

27 September 2026
Interview byJared Mondschein
Defence

USSC Briefing Room | Move fast and break things? Trump’s defence transformation

25 September 2026
Podcast byMari Koeck
Alliances in an age of disorder
US politics
Conference
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2026

23 September 2026

AUKUS

USSC Briefing Room | AUKUS at five: Full steam ahead?

15 September 2026
Podcast byProfessor Peter Dean, Dr Zack Cooper, Mari Koeck
AUKUS partners are shown the capabilities used during the Integrated Battle Problem 23.3 exercise at Fleet Base East, NSW.
AUKUS

What Has AUKUS Pillar II Achieved Over 5 Years?

15 September 2026
Commentary byKester Abbott, Tara Luckock
AUKUS

Five years into AUKUS, what do we have to show for it? We’ve measured progress on three key metrics

15 September 2026
Commentary byTom Corben, Esther Soulard
A man walking in Larung Gar
Foreign policy
Public forum
Tibet at the epicentre: Geopolitics, religion and climate security

14 September 2026

6.00pm

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7.30pm AEST

Past event
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea.
Foreign policy

Why does Donald Trump want to meet Kim Jong-un, and will he?

10 September 2026
Commentary byDr Michael J. Green