USSC Live
Catch up with events produced by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney with USSC Live. These events offer new insights and perspectives on topics including American foreign policy, economics, politics and culture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 214
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
A seat at the table: The role of regional multilateral institutions in US Indo-Pacific strategy
For the past 30 years, Australia has supported inclusive regional security and economic multilateral institutions as a way of entrenching the United States’ role in Asia. With US-China competition in…
00:59:21 |
Mon 06 Dec 2021
The fate of President Biden's legislative agenda in Congress
With a Democratic president and Democratic control of the House of Representatives and Senate, the Democratic Party currently holds a rare government trifecta. Yet less than a year since grabbing pow…
01:03:28 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy: The state of play
The United States Studies Centre and Asia Society Australia co-hosted a panel discussion on America’s Indo-Pacific strategy under President Joe Biden.
The Indo-Pacific is the new global centre of st…
00:59:22 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
A geoeconomic alliance: The potential and limits of economic statecraft
Policy issues at the intersection of international security and international economics loom increasingly large for Australian and US policymakers. The alliance’s shift from economic engagement to ri…
00:59:20 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Integrated deterrence in the Indo-Pacific: Advancing the Australia-United States alliance
Amid sharpening strategic competition with China in the Indo-Pacific, the Biden administration has proposed the concept of ‘integrated deterrence’ as a cornerstone for US defence strategy. By collabo…
01:02:03 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
The future of US politics: A conversation with The Brookings Institution's Sarah Binder and Thomas Mann
During the 2020 presidential campaign, then-candidate Joe Biden famously predicted that a loss by President Trump in the November 2020 election would force Republicans to have an “epiphany” and turn …
01:00:37 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
NATO Expert Talk Series: NATO's arms-control agenda
Recent years have seen the unravelling of some of the landmark arms control treaties, compounded with growing strategic competition between major powers and increases in military spending. This inevi…
00:58:02 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
An address by Senator the Hon Penny Wong to launch USSC report "Correcting the course"
The United States Studies Centre hosted a virtual address and in-conversation event with Senator the Hon Penny Wong to launch the United States Studies Centre report “Correcting the course: How the B…
01:00:21 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Previewing the Biden administration's first AUSMIN meeting
The next Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation (AUSMIN) will take place later this month amidst sharpening strategic competition with China and rising concerns about the direction of Biden…
00:59:04 |
Tue 14 Sep 2021
Twenty years since 9/11 with Major General Duncan Lewis and General David Petraeus
This year marks 20 years since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, the precursor to US-led military operations in Afghanistan, joined by Australia.
For the two decades, cou…
01:00:24 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Trust and diversify: A geoeconomic strategy for the Australia-US alliance
As Australia and the United States commemorate the 70th anniversary of their alliance, the alliance agenda is burgeoning, matching the pace and breath of geostrategic change in the Indo-Pacific, acco…
00:59:15 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
The Alliance 70th anniversary with distinguished guests former Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and John Howard
September 1, 2021 marks 70 years since the ANZUS Treaty was signed in San Francisco in 1951, the first major international treaty Australia entered independent of the British government.
Today, the …
01:22:23 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
American Cultures Lecture with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen
As a refugee from South Vietnam when he was four years old Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen’s work explores the convergence between politics and literature. The Sympathizer, his thriller about a communist…
00:59:34 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
The Australia-US alliance: Views from the region
As it celebrates its 70th anniversary, the Australia-US alliance continues to evolve in response to a changing regional context in the Indo-Pacific. How do Australia’s neighbours in Southeast Asia un…
01:01:26 |
Sat 21 Aug 2021
Behind Trump the great and powerful - with The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
2020 will be remembered as one of the most tumultuous years in American history. COVID-19 tested every country, every government and every political leader in the world. But with the pandemic arrivin…
00:59:49 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Ambassador Jane Hardy
The United States Studies Centre and Perth USAsia Centre host a monthly web series reviewing the latest in US politics and policy and what this means for Australia.
This month our guest was Ambassad…
01:00:51 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guests Victoria Farrar-Myers and Valerie Hudson
The United States Studies Centre and Perth USAsia Centre host a monthly web series reviewing the latest in US politics and policy and what this means for Australia.
This month hosts Simon Jackman an…
01:00:26 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
NATO Expert Talk Series: Outcomes of the NATO Brussels Summit
Cybersecurity, defence innovation and climate change in the military are all on the agenda for NATO’s Brussels Summit on 14 June. But with NATO placing unprecedented attention on the Indo-Pacific, wh…
01:00:08 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Key players in the Biden administration
No campaign promise, rumour mill or day one executive order is as revelatory of a US president’s strategic intentions than the men and women they trust to guide them. A president’s Cabinet and key po…
00:59:12 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Annelise Nielsen
In the midst of the biggest pandemic in a century, Sky News Host Annelise Nielsen headed to the epicentre – the United States. Bringing a cameraman she ventured into the heart of the 2020 election to…
01:02:13 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
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