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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Svante E Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Svante E Cornell is Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a co-founder of the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm, as well as a Policy Advisor to JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.