In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Harry Zieve Cohen is a research associate for Walter Russell Mead and a Staff Writer at The American Interest.
Biography
Harry assisted Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead with his research on foreign policy, the blue social model, and the information economy. He is a staff writer at the American Interest, where he primarily covers Asian geopolitics and American infrastructure. Harry studied literature and political philosophy at Middlebury College. In 2014, he spent a semester reading British and German literature at Oxford University.
A group of people monitor construction crews demolishing a portion of the Mulholland Drive bridge along the 405 Freeway September 29, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Jonathan Alcorn/Getty Images)