Patrick Cronin appears as a guest speaker at the Korean Peninsula Symposium 2026 to discuss the United States’ role in the disrupted world order, highlighting the US-Iran war and the Middle East. He emphasizes why the US should maintain strong partnerships with allies in Asia and Europe while working through conflicts in the Middle East. Cronin argues that the US continues to be a balancer of power and a provider of deterrence in Asia despite the concern over burden sharing.
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Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)