Show overview
USSC Briefing Room has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 116 episodes, alongside 5 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 70 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 30 min and 43 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Mari Koeck.
From the publisher
The USSC Briefing Room is a podcast from the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. It gives you a seat at the table for a briefing on the latest US news and foreign policy. Co-hosts Mari Koeck, Jared Mondschein and Victoria Cooper talk to experts to cover what you need to know and what's beneath the surface of the news.
Latest Episodes
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USSC at 20: What’s changed and where to from here?
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America at 250 | Innovation from America’s founding to the space race
America at 250 | Addressing the contradictions in the Declaration of Independence in an Australian classroom
America at 250 | America’s sacred (yet secular) documents with David Smith
America at 250 | US influence on Australian democracy
How is economic security changing the politics and foreign policy in the UK and Australia?
What next for the AI race?
Will the largest US defence budget clear Congress?
Signals, not spectacle: Dr Michael Green on Takaichi’s visit to Australia
Trump vs the Pope: Politics, faith and power
Is there space for Australia in outer space?
The state of play for Australia-Taiwan relations
Ep 96The future of nuclear risk: Iran, China and the end of New START
From the expiration of the New START Treaty to the war with Iran, headlines about nuclear risks are consistently in the news at the moment.How significant is the expiration of the New START Treaty? How have nuclear risks changed since the war with Iran began? What are the major nuclear threats facing the world at the moment? Dr Daniel Salisbury joined the USSC Briefing Room to discuss these issues. Daniel is Senior Fellow for Nuclear Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the author of Secrecy, Public Relations and the British Nuclear Debate: How the UK Government Learned to Talk about the Bomb, 1970-1983. Subscribe to the USSC Briefing Room on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Produced by: Elliott BrennanMusic by Dan Phillipson, licensed through PremiumBeat