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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs the golden book as he meets Norway’s king on October 20, 2026, at the Royal Palace in Oslo. (Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on September 1, 2025, in Tianjin, China. (Getty Images)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a press conference with President Donald Trump in White House on February 13, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and leaders of other NATO countries pose for a photo during the NATO summit on June 25, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Getty Images)
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Election administration officials open ballot boxes in Tokyo on October 27, 2024. (Getty Images)
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Workers arrange national flags of Japan and India ahead of a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Hyderabad House on March 19, 2022, in New Delhi, India. (Sonu Mehta via Getty Images)
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres makes a speech as he attends the three-day International Palestine Conference, led by France and Saudi Arabia and attended by Turkiye at the United Nations Trusteeship Council in New York on July 28, 2025. (Selcuk Acar via Getty Images)
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Leaders of nine nations applaud the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 14, 1995. (Peter Turnley via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2025. (Allison Robbert via Getty Images)
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Workers collect glass and debris after a Russian Shahed drone strikes the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 30, 2025. (Francisco Richart Barbeira via Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
