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July 2022
January 6 hearings, remembering Shinzo Abe, USSC releases new research
The United States Studies Centre (USSC) focused on a series of major events across America and the Indo-Pacific in July and released new research revealing Australia’s advancements under the AUKUS partnership in defence technologies will have greater impact sooner than new submarines.
As millions of Americans focussed on the January 6 committee hearings, news broke that Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated on 8 July. A friend of Abe-san, USSC CEO and author of Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo, Dr Michael Green said he was the most consequential Japanese leader in modern history and a champion of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
The same week, the Centre released a new USSC report - Laying the foundations for AUKUS: Strengthening Australia’s high-tech ecosystem in support of advanced capabilities. Report author and Non-Resident Fellow Jennifer Jackett says the technological capabilities and innovation ecosystems stemming from Australia’s AUKUS agreement will be “more consequential” and arrive much sooner than the multi-billion-dollar, nuclear-powered submarines.
EVENT
Upcoming event - American democracy in peril: The US Senate's crucial role with Ira Shapiro
Ira Shapiro's recent book, The Betrayal: How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America, chronicles the US Senate during the Trump presidency. As a veteran scholar and former Senate staffer with bipartisan experience, Shapiro joins a special USSC webinar on 23 August featuring Bill Kristol, former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle in conversation with USSC CEO Dr Michael Green and Non-Resident Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe.
NEWS
Kennedy arrives in Australia
The arrival of new US ambassador Caroline Kennedy is another milestone in the US-Australia partnership. USSC CEO Dr Michael Green, who came to know Kennedy when she was US ambassador in Tokyo, told the Australian Financial Review she brings experience managing a major alliance. USSC Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe told ABC's The World Today Kennedy believes in the highest ideals shared by both countries.
More than submarines: How AUKUS can boost Australia's defence technology ecosystem
New research by the USSC recommends a thorough, whole-of-government analysis on Australia’s areas of comparative advantage and gaps to take full advantage of the AUKUS security pact. The report was covered in The Australian Financial Review and InnovationAus.com.
Welcome Peter and Keisha
The USSC is pleased to announce the appointment of one of Australia’s leading international defence experts, Professor Peter J. Dean, as the Centre’s new Director of Foreign Policy and Defence. Professor Dean brings a wealth of research experience from his previous role as Professor and Chair of Defence Studies at the University of Western Australia. The Centre will also welcome Dr Keisha Brown, who arrives from Tennessee State University as a Visiting Fellow in October. Dr Brown is a historian of modern China, with allied interests in race and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in modern East Asia.
USSC joins forces with CSIS on podcast
The USSC is partnering with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to deliver The Asia Chessboard podcast featuring in-depth conversations with USSC CEO Dr Michael Green alongside Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS, with the most prominent thinkers in Asia. In a special edition next week, they discuss the strategic and political legacy of Shinzo Abe following the assassination of the former Japanese Prime Minister.
USSC seeks an Engagement Manager
The USSC is seeking an Engagement Manager, who will play a critical role in growing and optimising the Centre’s engagement, improving its sustainability through diversifying funding sources, and increasing impact through goal-setting, tracking and reporting throughout a broad range of activities. READ MORE HERE
US Politics: The World of Washington
Whether you are a US politics junkie or not, this timely unit adds great value to a plethora of University of Sydney course offerings when it starts in Semester 2. Providing a comprehensive understanding of American domestic politics, this unit explores the US system of government in detail and the ideas that underlie it. Led by Dr Gorana Grgic, it will examine the relationship between the President and Congress, as well as presidential elections, and domestic issues, such as race, inequality, law and order, and immigration policy. READ MORE HERE
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Event replays
The latest videos from our webinars and events are available on our YouTube channel. Catch up on these events through the USSC Live podcast and on YouTube. Here is a recent webinar:
- A documentary history of the United States with Alexander Heffner in conversation with USSC Engagement and Impact Director Mari Koeck
Make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the USSC YouTube channel to get notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded.
USSC perspectives
USSC experts reflected on the legacy of the late Shinzo Abe, the January 6 committee hearings, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles’ first visit to the United States as defence minister.
- Shinzo Abe: ‘Trump whisperer’ a statesman and global visionary by Dr Michael Green first published in The Australian
- The United States was founded on allegiance to laws, not leaders: Jan 6 rioters turned that on its head by Jared Mondschein and Victoria Cooper first published in The Conversation
- Marles’s focus for the US–Australia alliance: integrate, integrate, integrate by Tom Corben first published in The Strategist
- Ukraine conflict keeps NATO’s focus close to home by Dr Gorana Grgic first published in the Australian Financial Review
- Biden’s shredded agenda and the lessons of history by Bruce Wolpe first published in Ticker News
- Most Australians don’t identify as Christians — why, and what does this mean for our politics? by Associate Professor David Smith first published on abc.net.au
More than a ‘plus one’: Korea’s minilateral imperative by Dr Peter Lee first published by the Sejong Institute
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