Understanding How Trump Sees the World

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Is Chinese AI All It’s Cracked up to Be?

Thomas J. Duesterberg

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Thomas J. Duesterberg

Apr 16, 2025

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Domestic Politics, the US-Japan Alliance, and Tokyo’s Global Role: Bipartisan Views from the Diet

Koichiro Gemba, Itsunori Onodera, Shinjiro Koizumi, Kimi Onoda, Kenneth Weinstein

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To Bolster Diplomacy and Deterrence Make Our Enemies Fear the Bomber

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Apr 22, 2025

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The Strategic Case for Designating the Polisario Front as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Zineb Riboua

Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Zineb Riboua

Apr 18, 2025

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Rebuilding America’s Maritime Industrial Base with Senators Mark Kelly and Todd Young

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How to Save Ukraine

Can Kasapoğlu

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Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Can Kasapoğlu & Peter Rough

Mar 14, 2025

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Trump Doesn’t Faze Xi Jinping

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Mar 17, 2025

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Ending Self-Imposed Scarcity: Exploiting America’s Commercial Strengths to Mobilize Weapons Production

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Dan Patt

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Nadia Schadlow

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Bryan Clark, Dan Patt & Nadia Schadlow

Mar 12, 2025

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May 8, 2025

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Nadia Schadlow

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Nadia Schadlow joins Dan Kurtz-Phelan on The Foreign Affairs Interview to talk about Donald Trump’s second-term approach to Ukraine, Asia, global trade, and more. She lays out a vision of what a successful Trump foreign policy might look like.