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As countries grapple with global issues, such as climate change and the impact of emerging technology, the way that nations interact has never been more consequential. Our experts, programming, and impact initiatives work to analyze the foreign policy of the United States and other nations with an aim to explore shared values and produce agenda-setting resources.

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MAR 28, 2024 Podcast

The Humanization of Warfare: Ethics, Law, and Civilians in Conflict

APR 9, 2024 Video

Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict

From Gaza to Ukraine, the military applications of AI are fundamentally reshaping the ethics of war. How should policymakers navigate AI’s inherent trade-offs?

MAR 28, 2024 Video

Unlocking Cooperation: The Global South and Global North

In the inaugural panel of the "Unlocking Cooperation" series, Ramu Damodaran leads a discussion on forging a path forward for Global South/North collaboration.

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OCT 6, 2016 Podcast

Major Security Challenges for the Next President

Afghanistan, terrorism, U.S.-Russia relations: Col. McCausland gives an expert analysis of all these security challenges and more. Yet he concludes on a hopeful ...

SEP 30, 2016 Podcast

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

In today's connected world--a "cosmopolis" dominated by the "four superpowers" Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon--what we need is to have more but also better free ...

Detail from "The Will to Lead" book cover

SEP 29, 2016 Podcast

The Will to Lead: America's Indispensable Role in the Global Fight for Freedom

"The world is on fire," says Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former secretary general of NATO and former prime minister of Denmark. He goes on to make ...

Refugees in Greece, January 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cafodphotolibrary/25046152264">CAFOD Photo Library</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

SEP 14, 2016 Podcast

The UN's Peter Sutherland on the Migrant Crisis

In the run-up to the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, Joanne Myers talks with Peter Sutherland about the challenges of implementing the 1951 Refugee Convention, ...

SEP 13, 2016 Podcast

U.S. Elections & Brexit: Can Liberalism Survive?

Why are liberal values eroding across the world? Will this continue? Realist Stephen Walt says maybe not, if the U.S. can set a good ...

AUG 30, 2016 Podcast

Robert Kaplan on the Underlying Forces that Drive our "Post-Modern" World

"To understand the events of the next 50 years, then, one must understand environmental scarcity, cultural and racial clash, geographic destiny, and the transformation of war." ...

U.S. Marine in Iraq. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dvids/3113578051/">DVIDSHUB</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> (CC)</a>

AUG 25, 2016 Podcast

Asha Castleberry on the 2016 Election and the Fight Against ISIS

U.S. Army veteran Asha Castleberry discusses veterans' reactions to the 2016 presidential campaign, and also the ongoing U.S. anti-ISIS military campaign, which is preparing ...

Shanghai Selfie, March 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uketeecee/22500830257">Terry Chapman</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

AUG 19, 2016 Podcast

What the Realities in China Mean for U.S. Policy

A frequent visitor to China, Professor Eisenman is an astute observer of the cataclysmic changes taking place there, from the emptying-out of the countryside to ...

Orlando Letelier, Washington D.C., 1976. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orlando_Letelier,_Washingron_DC,_1976_(de_Marcelo_Montecino).jpg">Wikimedia</a>

JUL 19, 2016 Article

Codename: Chilbom

On a fall morning in 1976, a bomb exploded in the middle of Washington. The shock waves were felt for the next 30 years.

U.S. Army in Baghdad, November 2003. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#/media/File:UStanks_baghdad_2003.JPEG">Technical Sergeant John L. Houghton, Jr., USAF</a>

JUN 15, 2016 Article

The Progressive's Paradox

Can left-wing ideologies ever co-exist comfortably with military intervention? U.S. foreign policy over the past two decades has failed to align squarely with the ...