Research Focus

The America Centre offers critical analysis of the United States as a domestic political system and as a global power, tracking how its internal contestations reshape its external commitments.

US foreign and economic policy: the strategic doctrines of successive administrations, the role of Congress in shaping foreign policy, and the political economy of dollar dominance.

Democratic institutions: the resilience of American constitutional democracy, electoral integrity, and the courts as political actors.

Technology governance: US AI policy, antitrust action against Big Tech, semiconductor strategy, and the regulatory architecture for emerging technologies.

US–India partnership: defence cooperation, technology transfer, and the iCET framework. We track the strategic logics that drive convergence, and the political constraints that limit it.

Transatlantic order: NATO, the future of the US–Europe relationship, and the strategic implications of European autonomy in a post-Atlantic world.