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Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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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)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping attend an official welcoming ceremony in Beijing on May 16, 2024. (Sergei Bobylov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Delegates attend the second meeting of North Atlantic Council of foreign ministers on December 4, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)
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Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida, and Narendra Modi attend the Quad Fellowship Founding Celebration event on May 24, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki via Getty Images)
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Soldiers hold US and Japanese flags during a welcome ceremony for Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 27, 2019. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)
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Motorbike riders cross into the snow laden Himalayan Sela pass in Arunachal Pradesh on April 5, 2023. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden announces an aid package for Ukraine on October 18, 2024, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on September 27, 2024, in New York City. (Alex Kent via Getty Images)
Experts
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
