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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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United States and Japanese national flags are displayed outside Palace Hotel Tokyo on May 25, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi via Getty Images)
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A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Traditional Greenlandic housing is seen from the Myggedalen viewpoint on March 28, 2025, in Nuuk, Greenland. (Leon Neal via Getty Images)
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A Taliban security personnel stands guard outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Kabul on March 30, 2025. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images)
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Apartment buildings and houses are pictured in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 24, 2025. (Juliette Pavy/AFP via Getty Images)
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Masked Palestinian youths dressed as suicide bombers carry Hamas flags and a makeshift Qassam rocket during a rally organized by Hamas, in the West Bank City of Ramallah, on September 22, 2005 (Jamal Aruri/AFP via Getty Images)
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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint press conference at the Vahdettin Mansion on July 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Ozan Guzelce via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Al Drago via Getty Images)
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A view of a destroyed hospital building after a Russian drone attack on March 19, 2025, in Krasnopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Pavlo Zarva/Kordon.Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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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
