July 5, 2017
Normalizing a nuclear North Korea offers the United States the opportunity to cauterize the nuclear risk by reducing tensions just as Nixon's normalization cauterized nuclear China in the 1970s, writes Bennett Ramberg.
June 26, 2017
Although moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won reelection last month, hardliners made significant gains and could win the presidency in the next election, Koichiro Tanaka told Pacific Council members during the Edgerton Series on Iran and Turkey.
June 23, 2017
This week, Russia vows to shoot down U.S. jets in Syria flying west of the Euphrates; construction of a border wall fuels a diplomatic row between Ecuador and Peru; officials from the BRICS nations meet in South Africa; and more.
June 22, 2017
The United States must step up its game on U.S.-Africa trade and investment, writes Grant Harris, or it will effectively cede the region to China.
June 16, 2017
This week on Global Beat, Cuba announces plans to hold elections later this year; Otto Warmbier is medically evacuated from North Korea to the United States; and more.
Credit: Juanedc
June 9, 2017
This week on Global Beat, several countries in the Gulf region sever diplomatic ties with Qatar; South Korea’s new president suspends the deployment of a U.S. antimissile defense system; Puerto Ricans decide on statehood; and more.
May 9, 2016
A special dinner event featuring Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2007-2009), U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2005-2007), and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-2005).
U.S. Navy
June 12, 2017
China and Russia have decided that the sea is the place to challenge America’s global leadership, write Robert C. O'Brien and Jerry Hendrix. President Trump must rebuild the U.S. Navy to keep command of the oceans.
June 2, 2017
This week, President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Accord climate change agreement; a powerful new Ebola vaccine is headed to the Democratic Republic of Congo to fight a small outbreak; Yemen is on the brink of total collapse; and more.
June 1, 2017
War between the United States and China is not inevitable, but it is possible, writes Graham Allison. China’s disruptive rise creates conditions in which accidental, otherwise inconsequential events could trigger a large-scale conflict.
