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Why Allies are Key for US Security Today

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

CFR's Mira Rapp-Hooper explains why NATO is still essential for America’s global leadership – but must be remade to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Angela Merkel and Donald Trump face eachother at the NATO Summit.
Reuters
Defense and Security

Alliance of Democracies—from America First to American Led

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Global Insight by Paul Poast

Can an administration that up to this point has been belligerent towards traditional US democratic allies and has rejected many forms of multilateralism be able to turn the page and shift from "America First" to "American Led"?

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James Balensiefen
US Foreign Policy

Column: What Pompeo gets right—and wrong—about China

In the News
The Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

Instead of continuing "the old paradigm of blind engagement with China," Pompeo calls for unrelenting pressure to force Beijing to change its ways.

Mike Pompeo Defense and Security

Co-Operation: A Pre-Existing Condition

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Global Insight by Ian Klaus

Council expert Ian Klaus examines how history will remember the almost simultaneous global mobilization of policy and resources, as well as local urban adaptations and interventions.

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Jordan Hopkins
Global Health

An Interview with Robert Muggah

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Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

Project Syndicate talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.

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"Ally On-Shoring" in the Age of China and Trump

In the News
The New Diplomatist
John Austin

In this episode, Garrison host's John C. Austin for a discussion of his theory of "Ally On-Shoring", a proposed method of economic and security cooperation among democracies in the face of the rising challenges of a revisionist China abroad and a resurgent protectionist and nationalist attitude at home.

Stacks of shipping containers in Shanghai
Reuters
Global Economy

Mike Pompeo Challenges China's Governing Regime

In the News
The National Interest
Paul Heer

The Secretary of State’s approach to Beijing risks confirming its suspicions about U.S. subversion while simultaneously alienating the very Chinese people that he aspires to "engage and empower."

Mike Pompeo Defense and Security

EU Budget, Russia's UK Influence, and COVID-19 Vaccine Wars

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Journalists from some of the world’s leading media outlets join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss the EU budget deal, what Europe can learn from Russian influence in the UK, and the politics of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Mufid Majnun
Global Health

Who's Winning the US-China Tech War?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Adam Segal explains the battles between China and the US over products like Huawei and TikTok, their role in US foreign policy, and why US allies are choosing sides. 

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Reuters
Tech and Science

A Group Interview...in the Series, 'Shaking the Global Order'

In the News
Global Summitry
Bruce Jentleson

Global affairs experts thought deeply on the questions of the Liberal Order and the consequences to American foreign policy in the Age of Trump.

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Aotearoa
US Foreign Policy