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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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Participants sit in front of the NATO logo during the NATO summit in Newport, South Wales, on September 4, 2014. (Maurizio Gambarini via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe shake hands prior to their meeting on May 27, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Eugene Hoshiko via Getty Images)
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk walks prior to the start of the European Union Summit on February 2, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse via Getty Images)
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European Union flags outside the European Central Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 12, 2024. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a visit to the Israel Museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi via Getty Images)
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Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon holds a map during a United Nations Security Council meeting concerning the situation in the Middle East on April 26, 2018, in New York City. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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World leaders gather for the second day of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 19, 2024. (Leah Millis/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via NHK World-Japan)
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Antony Blinken meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Turkey on December 12, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot via Getty Images)
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Giorgia Meloni in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi before a meeting on December 4, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
