Australia Chair
The Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies is dedicated to increasing understanding between the United States and Australia
The Australia Chair, endowed through the generosity of Pratt Industries, sharpens the focus on U.S.-Australia alliance relations and contributes innovative policy ideas to the rapidly expanding regional and global challenges that call for greater coordination and action by Canberra and Washington. The Chair works to broaden the reach and impact of the U.S.-Australia alliance and Australian ideas, influence, and capacity.
Dr. Charles Edel, a thought leader on U.S. national security and U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific and a well-recognized public policy voice in U.S.-Australia relations, serves as the inaugural Australia Chair. The Australia Chair is supported by an advisory council of former senior officials and business leaders led by James Carouso, former chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Canberra with senior diplomatic experience across the region.
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Featured Analysis

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Growing Challenges, Rising Ambitions: AUSMIN 2022 and Expanding U.S.-Australia Cooperation
This report examines different pathways for U.S.-Australia cooperation to evolve and deepen. The 18 essays outline the state of play on a range of topics, frame the most salient challenges, and offer more than 70 concrete recommendations for advancing the alliance.
Report by Charles Edel and Lam Tran — December 1, 2022
Recent Analysis

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ITAR Should End for Australia
The United States faces its greatest geopolitical challenge since World War II in a global strategic competition with China. To win this competition requires the United States to revise its Cold War-era weapons and sensitive technology control regimes.
Commentary by James Carouso , Thomas Schieffer , Jeffrey Bleich , John Berry , and Arthur Culvahouse — December 7, 2022

Growing Challenges, Rising Ambitions: AUSMIN 2022 and Expanding U.S.-Australia Cooperation
Report by Charles Edel and Lam Tran — December 1, 2022

White House Unveils Pacific Islands Strategy at Historic Summit
Critical Questions by Charles Edel , Christopher B. Johnstone , and Gregory B. Poling — September 30, 2022

The Clock Is Ticking: The Australian Defense Review and Time
Commentary by Mick Ryan — September 6, 2022
Featured Events

Indo-Pacific Forecast 2023

Report Launch: Growing Challenges, Rising Ambitions: AUSMIN 2022 and Expanding U.S.-Australia Cooperation

Book Event: Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Toward a clean and secure energy future in the Indo-Pacific: A conversation with Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen
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Indo-Pacific Forecast 2023
Event by Victor Cha , Emily Benson , Jude Blanchette , Charles Edel , Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , Scott Kennedy , Ellen Kim , and Bonny Lin , Lily McElwee , Erin L. Murphy , Yuko Nakano , Gregory B. Poling , William Alan Reinsch , Nicholas Szechenyi , Raymond Vickery , Kurt Campbell , Ambassador Taeyong Cho , Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez — January 12, 2023

ITAR Should End for Australia
Commentary by James Carouso , Thomas Schieffer , Jeffrey Bleich , John Berry , and Arthur Culvahouse — December 7, 2022

Report Launch: Growing Challenges, Rising Ambitions: AUSMIN 2022 and Expanding U.S.-Australia Cooperation
Event by Charles Edel , Matthew P. Goodman , Mick Ryan , Kelsey Hartigan , and Seiyeon Ji — December 1, 2022

Growing Challenges, Rising Ambitions: AUSMIN 2022 and Expanding U.S.-Australia Cooperation
Report by Charles Edel and Lam Tran — December 1, 2022

Book Event: Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World
Event by Charles Edel and Alex Joske — October 12, 2022

White House Unveils Pacific Islands Strategy at Historic Summit
Critical Questions by Charles Edel , Christopher B. Johnstone , and Gregory B. Poling — September 30, 2022

Toward a clean and secure energy future in the Indo-Pacific: A conversation with Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen
Event by Charles Edel and The Hon Chris Bowen MP — September 23, 2022

The Clock Is Ticking: The Australian Defense Review and Time
Commentary by Mick Ryan — September 6, 2022

Democratic Responses to Foreign Interference: Learning from Australia's Experience
Event by Charles Edel , John Garnaut , John Fitzgerald , and Sophie McNeill — August 18, 2022

Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit: Implications for the Indo-Pacific
Critical Questions by Jude Blanchette , Charles Edel , Christopher B. Johnstone , Scott Kennedy , Victor Cha , Ellen Kim , and Gregory B. Poling — August 15, 2022
