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USSC Live — 233 episodes
Building a more resilient Pacific: The allies and partners agenda
Asian crucible: Globalisation, geopolitics and the contest for the future
Errol Flynn: The true story of Australia's Hollywood icon
What the Iran war means for the Middle East — and the world
The future of the Quad in the age of Trump
Securing the Indian Ocean: India-Australia maritime partnership
A look back at year one of Trump 2.0
Tides of partnership: Australia-India maritime collaboration in the Indian Ocean region
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Can allies shape US strategy?
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Keynote address from General David Berger (Ret’d)
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Leading on economic security: AI and critical minerals
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Navigating disruption in trade and finance
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Keynote address from HE the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Are US alliances fit for purpose? AUKUS, the Quad, and the future of security cooperation
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Is China winning in the Indo-Pacific?
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Keynote address from Avril Haines
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | America abroad, America at home: How much has changed?
Sydney International Strategy Forum 2025 | Fireside conversation with Dr Kurt Campbell
Weaponising words: Russia's global influence playbook
Japan's defence revolution and Australia-Japan-US trilateralism under Trump 2.0
Can Ukraine survive?
Kelly Magsamen: The future of US defence policy
David Shambaugh: How China won and lost America
Trump's tariffs and the future of the global order
Expert discussion of Kathryn Schumaker's book, Tangled Fortunes: The hidden history of interracial marriage in the Jim Crow South
Space traffic jam: Challenges facing space sustainability
Cosmic shield: A panel on space security
100 days of the second Trump administration
US export controls, AUKUS and Australia
US-China competition: AI, chips and export controls — where to next?
Geopolitical trends to watch in 2025
The future of the Quad
Building bridges across the Indian Ocean: Australia-India cooperation for connectivity and growth
Who will be America's next president: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?
Competition in cyberspace and the future of US security leadership
Folk singers and the FBI
Understanding the 2024 US Election: A webinar for educators
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 9: Reconciling security and prosperity: What’s at stake in 2024?
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 8: Indo-Pacific energy security and Australia’s role in the energy transition
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 7: Technology dynamics, disruption, and de-risking: the security-prosperity nexus
Economic security in a turbulent world | Dinner panel | Fusing security and economic interests: Practitioners’ perspectives
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 6: Global economic governance: Where to for the “rules-based order”?
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 5: Economic statecraft in an age of strategic competition
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 4: Political risk and global shocks: What keeps C-suites up at night?
Economic security in a turbulent world | Keynote address by Dr Steven Kennedy PSM, Secretary to the Australian Treasury
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 3: US-China economic competition: An insider’s perspective
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 2: Economic security strategies in practice: Who’s doing what?
Economic security in a turbulent world | Session 1: Geopolitical turmoil and the search for economic security
Economic security in a turbulent world | Welcome and address by Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce
Allies and Partners Poll 2024: Australia, the United States and Japan converge on alliances and China despite US election uncertainties
Cyber threats, disinformation and sabotage: Lessons learnt from Russia's war in Ukraine
Expert discussion of Frances Clarke's prize-winning book: Of Age: Boy Soldiers and the American Civil War
Inside the Republican Party: In conversation with Barbara Comstock
Election Watch 2024: The Democratic National Convention
AUKUS enablers? Assessing US and Australian defence export control reforms
Election Watch 2024: New Cold Wars in a year like no other
Election Watch 2024: Reflections on the Republican National Convention
Governing AI: How are governments engaging with generative AI?
AUKUS, allies and partners
Sydney launch of Red book | Blue book 2024: A guide to the next US administration
Parliament House, Canberra launch of Red book | Blue book 2024: A guide to the next US administration
The future of democracy in the Pacific and Southeast Asia
Climate transition heating up: The race for the clean energy transition in the Indo-Pacific
Election Watch 2024: Trump v. Biden redux?
Taiwan's upcoming election: The implications for Australia
The insider's guide to the 2024 US presidential election
Sydney International Strategy Forum | USSC 2023 polling insights — part two
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Panel 4: AUKUS, the Quad and the future of alliances and partnerships
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Strategy simulation insights
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Panel 3: Navigating de-risking, disruption and emerging technology
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Panel 2: US politics at the crossroads
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Keynote address and fireside conversation with The Hon. Madeleine King MP
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Keynote address and fireside conversation with Senator Simon Birmingham
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Panel 1: How far will US-China confrontation go?
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Keynote address and fireside conversation with Michèle Flournoy
Sydney International Strategy Forum | Welcome remarks and USSC 2023 polling insights — part one
The GOP debate breakdown: What just happened?
Countering a Taiwan crisis with economics
How Australia can navigate US-China economic battles
Readout on President Biden's Asia trip: A conversation with Kurt Campbell, Edgard Kagan and Mira Rapp-Hooper
How to stop a Cold War from becoming hot: Lessons from Ronald Reagan
The optimal pathway for ITAR reform
What to expect from the Quad Leaders' Summit
The fight for democracy in Asia
Technology, innovation and strategic competition: A conversation with The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh and Dr Robert Atkinson
AUKUS briefing: What you need to know about the AUKUS report
Pride and the alliance: Alan Joyce and Ambassador John Berry (ret'd) in conversation with Annabel Crabb
A conversation with Walter Russell Mead
State of the Union 2023: USSC pre-game analysis
Meet the Hamilton Australia cast: In the room where it happened
Many hands: Australia-US contributions to Southeast Asian maritime security resilience
What does the new Congress mean for Australia?
US Midterms 2022: The stakes for Australia and the alliance | Looking towards 2024
US Midterms 2022 | The US political map ahead of November 8 with Ron Brownstein
US Midterms 2022 | A conversation with Jane Coaston on what’s happening in America
US Midterms 2022: The stakes for Australia and the alliance | Report findings
Is a 2023 Taiwan invasion imminent or implausible?
A US-Australian agenda for climate change after the midterms
Danger Zone: The coming conflict with China with author Hal Brands
Sharks and the US presidency: A conversation with bite
Georgia: Ground zero of the US midterm elections
US midterms 2022 with Jane Coaston and Annabel Crabb
NATO's new Strategic Concept: Transatlantic security agenda and its implications for Australia
Universal voting: Can Australia's experience work in America?
Launch of Dr Michael Green’s new book Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō
American democracy in peril: The US Senate's crucial role
The crisis of American democracy: A conversation with Stephen Macedo
A documentary history of the United States with Alexander Heffner
What does a Kennedy in Canberra mean for Australia?
What's next for NATO in the Indo-Pacific after Ukraine?
Congress, the White House and democracy at a crossroads: A conversation with Larry Sabato
NATO Expert Talk Series | NATO and the challenges to the rules-based international order
Is Russia's invasion of Ukraine a turning point for all US allies or just NATO?
Preview of Biden's first State of the Union Address
What can the Cold War teach us about strategic competition? A conversation with historian Hal Brands
What to expect in US politics and policy in 2022
A conversation with The New Yorker's Evan Osnos, author of Wildland: The making of America's fury
Master of the game: A conversation with Martin Indyk on his new book
NATO Expert Talk Series | Emerging and disruptive technologies: Progress and challenges
A seat at the table: The role of regional multilateral institutions in US Indo-Pacific strategy
The fate of President Biden's legislative agenda in Congress
Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy: The state of play
A geoeconomic alliance: The potential and limits of economic statecraft
Integrated deterrence in the Indo-Pacific: Advancing the Australia-United States alliance
The future of US politics: A conversation with The Brookings Institution's Sarah Binder and Thomas Mann
NATO Expert Talk Series: NATO's arms-control agenda
An address by Senator the Hon Penny Wong to launch USSC report "Correcting the course"
Previewing the Biden administration's first AUSMIN meeting
Twenty years since 9/11 with Major General Duncan Lewis and General David Petraeus
Trust and diversify: A geoeconomic strategy for the Australia-US alliance
The Alliance 70th anniversary with distinguished guests former Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and John Howard
American Cultures Lecture with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Australia-US alliance: Views from the region
Behind Trump the great and powerful - with The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Ambassador Jane Hardy
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guests Victoria Farrar-Myers and Valerie Hudson
NATO Expert Talk Series: Outcomes of the NATO Brussels Summit
Key players in the Biden administration
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Annelise Nielsen
State of the United States: Australia-US collaboration for the economic security of the Indo-Pacific
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Elise Hu
Climate and energy in the United States and Australia: Politics, policies and implications for the alliance
The global challenge: Building resilient citizens in an age of disinformation
From Trumpland to Bidenland
State of the United States: How should the United States and Australia bolster collective deterrence and defence?
State of the United States: An evolving alliance agenda | Closing session featuring The Honourable Arthur Sinodinos AO
State of the United States: An evolving alliance agenda | Session 3
State of the United States: An evolving alliance agenda | Session 2
State of the United States: An evolving alliance agenda | Session 1
State of the United States: An evolving alliance agenda | Opening session featuring Ambassador Atul Keshap
A conversation with The Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin
US Politics and Policy Web Series with special guest Zoe Daniel
Love and Wolpe on Republicans and Democrats, Biden's agenda and 2022
US Politics and Policy Web Series: February 2021
Key players in the Biden administration
Vaccines, democracy and truth: Disinformation and digital disruption after the 2020 election
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series — December edition
Thanksgiving with Ambassadors Culvahouse and Sinodinos
US-China relations under a Biden administration
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A US-Australian assessment
US Politics Web Series with special guests Jeff Bleich and Chelsey Martin
Red Book/Blue Book: An Australian guide to the next US administration
Media and the 2020 election
President Trump's former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in conversation with Joe Hockey
The 2020 US election: What is at stake for Australia?
The future of US defence strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A conversation with Michèle Flournoy
Kamala Harris v Mike Pence: Vice-Presidential debate debrief
Managing US-China nuclear risks: A guide for Australia
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series with former Republican Senator Jeff Flake and US foreign policy expert Gorana Grgic
Empowering American allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific
Election Watch: A conversation with election analyst Charlie Cook
Law, the courts and free and fair elections in the United States: what to expect in 2020
When America stopped being great: a conversation with author Nick Bryant
Why is a border wall not a campaign issue in 2020?
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series with special guest Mark Textor and host Zoe Daniel
A conversation with former National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton
A conversation with Molly Ball, author of Pelosi and TIME magazine national political correspondent
The trajectory of American politics, power and prestige: A conversation with Tom Friedman
The perils of pre-election polling
The role of US innovation in securing Australia's economic future
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series with special guest Dr Evelyn Farkas
Will Democrats take the Senate and the White House?
The Sino-Indian border crisis: Has China pushed India closer to the US and its allies?
The future of America's alliances
Enduring economic partners: 15 years of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
AUSMIN 2020: Bolstering resilience in the Indo-Pacific
A new Cold War? China, America and the geopolitics of COVID-19
The vice-presidential sweepstakes
American power and high-tech warfare in the Indo-Pacific: A conversation with author Christian Brose
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series with special guest Mia Love
A conversation with author David Kilcullen
Trump campaign playbook with Axios national political reporter Jonathan Swan
Tech wars: US-China technology competition and what it means for Australia
The Quad: Will it ever work? Featuring former White House national security adviser Lt General H.R. McMaster
Race relations and the making of the United States: A conversation with Rutgers University President Dr Jonathan Holloway
Election Watch: US Politics Web Series — a monthly review from Australia
How will COVID-19 kick start entrepreneurship?
What will globalisation look like after COVID-19?
Coronavirus and protest: How has COVID-19 changed the face of American activism?
Trade tensions and economic coercion: What is next for the US-China-Australia relationship?
A conversation with The Washington Post White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker
US foreign policy, Iran and the United States after the 2020 election
What is the real cost of help from bad Samaritans?
Nuclear disasters, tsunamis and pandemics: An insider’s guide to how the US Government responds to crises
How is COVID-19 accelerating US' messy economic separation from China?
US Election Watch: Progressive politics and a coronavirus campaign trail
A conversation with John Berry, former US Ambassador to Australia
State-backed disinformation campaigns: How can democracies fight back?
Who is winning the politics of the pandemic in the United States?
What will the airline industry look like post COVID-19?
COVID-19, a trade war and strategic competition: How Washington's view of China has shifted
Lessons learned from the US response to COVID-19
The economic playbook for managing COVID-19: Lessons from the last economic downturn
The US military's role in response to COVID-19
The US and Australia responses to COVID-19
2020 Vision: What to expect from the United States this year
Risking your career in favour of your principles: Former US Senator Jeff Flake in conversation
Impeachment: The insiders' guide
Foreign policy address by Marise Payne
Parliament, Congress and glass ceilings
Mia Love on Trump, race and the future of the Republican Party
Averting crisis: American strategy, military spending and collective defence in the Indo-Pacific
US allies and the future of the Indo-Pacific
"An experience I couldn't pass up": Participants in the Washington DC Placement Program on what it's like to be an intern in the US capital
The future of the Australia-US alliance: Report briefing
The future of the Australia-US alliance
Reagan: 'Making America great' the first time
Bringing industry to airports: How the US experience can help Western Sydney take off
Breakfast with New York Times President, International Stephen Dunbar-Johnson
Microsoft President Brad Smith in conversation
The State of the Union and President Trump's 2019 agenda
US midterm election briefing: Parliament House, Canberra
Fear of automation and the rise of populism and protectionism