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Trump and The "Elites vs. The Deplorables"

In the News
The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table
Daniel W. Drezner

What does wealth inequality have to do with support for former president Trump? Nonresident Senior Fellow Dan Drezner explores the issue.

Crowd cheers and holds up "Trump 2024" signs, woman in a white jacket in the foreground with arms raised.
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US Foreign Policy

Sahel in Crisis: Niger's Coup and the Failure of Western Intervention

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Explore the Sahel's alarming pattern of coups as we unravel the threads behind Niger's recent crisis.

With the headquarters of the ruling party burning in the back, supporters of mutinous soldiers demonstrate in Niamey, Niger, Thursday, July 27 2023.
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Defense and Security

GOP Candidates Spar over Funding the Ukraine War

In the News
The Conversation
Jordan Tama

Will the Republican Party stand for international engagement, democracy and freedom? Or will Republicans adopt a narrower, inward-looking vision?

Republican presidential candidates stand onstage during the first Republican primary presidential debate on August 23, 2023.
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US Foreign Policy

Deepening the New US-Japan-Korea Trilateral Partnership

In the News
Politico
Ivo H. Daalder

The hope in Seoul and Tokyo is that even if Donald Trump is reelected, their partnership with Washington will be strong and resilient enough to survive.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, President Joe Biden, and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Camp David on August 18, 2023.
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US Foreign Policy

Do Nukes Make the US Safer? Americans Are Unsure

BLOG
Running Numbers by Libby Berry

While the public believes nuclear weapons are an effective tool in deterring aggression, less than half say they make the country more secure.

the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site
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US Foreign Policy

Case Studies: US Military Assistance in Africa Doesn't Work

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Responsible Statecraft
Coauthors

A new Council report argues the recent series of coups across the Sahelian region should prompt a major reassessment of US military assistance.

Master Sgt. Todd Chandler leads a group discussion from the Burkina Faso air force at Airbase 511
US Air Force
US Foreign Policy

The First Republican Debate Could Direct the GOP's Foreign Policy Stance

In the News
The Conversation
Jordan Tama

While plenty of attention will center on Donald Trump, "what candidates say about foreign policy is another critical issue."

Trump supporters walk near the Fiserv Forum ahead of the first Republican debate of the 2024 election.
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US Foreign Policy

Biden’s Tech Restrictions on China Aren’t Just about Economics

In the News
World Politics Review
Paul Poast

Trade will remain a key arena of great power competition between the US and China, Paul Poast writes.

Workers wait to hear President Joe Biden speak at a shipyard in Philadelphia
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US Foreign Policy

Trilateral Ties in East Asia, A.I. in the Gulf, Economic Troubles in China

Video Series
World Review with Ivo Daalder

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Ryan Heath, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Biden, Yoon, Kishida at Trilateral Meeting
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Global Politics

Lessons in Security and Diplomacy 25 Years After the US Embassy Bombings

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

We explore how the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya forever changed the way the US government protects its representatives abroad.

A view of the United States Embassy, left, and other damaged buildings in downtown Nairobi, Kenya on Aug. 8, 1998 the day after terrorist bombs in Kenya.
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US Foreign Policy