Commentary and Analysis

Deep Dish host Brian Hanson shares five recent episodes that help explain what’s happening in our world today and why these issues are so important.

Beijing is not in fact looking for excuses or an opportunity to attack its neighbor, Taipei: it is looking for reasons not to do so.

One of the defining features of 2020 has been the declaration of seemly one crisis after another, but why are some events declared crisis and why are others not?

Ivo Daalder talked with leading global media reporters about the peace agreement between Israel and UAE, the 2020 election, Belarus, and why Turkey is a problem for NATO.

Few people have had a greater impact on U.S. national security affairs over the last 40 years than Brent Scowcroft, who died last week at age 95.

Former deputy secretary of energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and Stanford University’s Scott Sagan examine nuclear weapons today and what Americans can do as arms control regimes falter.

Today, most Americans don’t want a world with nuclear weapons. According to the 2020 Chicago Council Survey two-thirds of Americans (66%) believe that no country should be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

Karen DeYoung, Nirmal Ghosh, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss US troops in Germany, Hong Kong, US-China tensions, Israel, and much more.

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.

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