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Allies and partners

Evolving partnerships like the Quad, AUKUS, and the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with Japan add further depth to the US-Australia alliance. Ensuring that these minilateral relationships keep pace with developments in their constituent bilateral partnerships is essential for Australian strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific.

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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)

Alice Nason a Senior Research Associate with the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre

Alice Nason

Senior Research Associate, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited States Studies Centre

Associate Professor David Smith

Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign PolicyUnited States Studies Centre (jointly appointed with the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney)

Dr Lavina Lee

Non-Resident Senior FellowUnited States Studies Centre

Professor Peter Dean

Director, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited State Studies Centre

Tom Corben, a Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre

Tom Corben

Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and DefenceUnited States Studies Centre

USSC Briefing Room | The significance of the AUKUS tech transfer

USSC Director of Engagement and Impact Mari Koeck discusses the AUKUS tech transfer with Visiting Fellow Cynthia Cook.

Podcast byMari Koeck

Flags of the Quad nations

Public forum

The future of the Quad

9 December 2024

5.30pm

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7.00pm AEDT

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USSC Briefing Room | What the new Congress means for the Indo-Pacific

3 December 2024

Podcast byJared Mondschein, Tom Corben, Alice Nason

Allies and partners

US leadership ‘indispensable’ even with Trump: Rudd

20 November 2024

Image of the poster for the Sydney International Strategy Forum 2024, with the theme being 'The future of American leadership and a contested Asia'.

Conference

Sydney International Strategy Forum 2024

20 November 2024

Past event

Submarine

AUKUS: we pay our way

19 November 2024

Commentary byProfessor Peter Dean

USSC Briefing Room | DC insiders on Trump’s victory and next steps

19 November 2024

Podcast byDr Michael J. Green, Lester Munson, Mari Koeck

Canberra braces for turmoil in the region

7 November 2024

In the news byDr Michael J. Green

US President Joe Biden and leaders from the Pacific Islands region pose for a photograph to commemorate the first-ever US-Pacific Island Country Summit at the White House, September 2022

US and Australian efforts to bolster people-to-people ties with the Pacific Islands

4 November 2024

Brief byEleanor Shiori Hughes

HMAS Arunta enters the port city of Busan, Republic of Korea, as part of the ship’s North East Asian deployment

Australia’s shipbuilding ambitions and South Korea’s experience

31 October 2024

Brief byDr Peter K. Lee

The Debate Papers: Should the United States, Australia and like-minded allies cooperate or compete with China when it comes to fighting climate change?

29 October 2024

The Debate Papers byXuyang Dong, Noah Gordon

US President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Quadrilateral Summit at the Archmere Academy in Wilmington, Delaware, September 2024.

Operationalising the Quad: Maritime security and climate change in the Indo-Pacific

23 October 2024

Brief byKate Clayton

Royal Australian Navy sailor Leading Seaman Aviation Anthony Hunt from HMAS Toowoomba greets crew members from the Republic of Korean ship Gang Gam — Chan during a cross deck exercise as part of the regional presence deployment 2023

Allies and partners

The South Korea-Australia partnership: State of play

23 October 2024

Brief byProfessor Peter Dean