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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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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump during the G20 Osaka Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images)
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An Afghan Commando keeps an eye on the horizon at the end of the day in Pesaw village, Bala Balouk district, Farah province, Afghanistan, May 21, 2018. (NATO photo by Lt. Amy Forsythe)
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(U.S. Navy, Robin W. Peak)
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President Donald J. Trump and President Joko Widodo (Official White House Photo/Shealah Craighead)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (front R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping as they arrive to pose for a group photo before a cultural event at the Osaka Geihinkan in Osaka Castle Park during the G20 Summit in Osaka. (Getty Images)
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A ferry navigates the Bosphorus Strait in front of a Turkish flag and the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. (Getty Images)
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U.S. President Donald Trump and the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speak to the media in the Oval Office at the White House on July 22, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, meets German Foreign Minister on September 05, 2018 in Ankara, Turkey. (Inga Kjer/Getty Images)
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Cargo is unloaded from a Russian AN-124 cargo plane transporting parts of the S-400 air defence system from Russia, after it landed at Murted Airfield on July 12, 2019 in Ankara, Turkey. (Mustafa Kirazli/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (Getty Images)
Experts
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
