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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu (R) show members of the media the proclamation recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights on March 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) talk to each other prior to pose for a family photo on March 22, 2019 in Brussels at the end of an EU summit focused on Brexit. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
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Flags of NATO member states are seen ahead of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on December 04, 2018. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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NASA astronaut Ronald Garan attached to the robotic arm Canadarm2 moves a failed ammonia pump module from a storage platform on the ISS to the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis during a planned spacewalk July 12, 2011. (NASA via Getty Images)
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The U.S. Army and South Korean military responded to North Korea's missile launch with a combined ballistic missile exercise on July 5, 2017, into South Korean waters. (Photo by South Korean Defense Ministry/Getty Images)
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US and Japanese (R) Navy ships are pictured docked at a harbour during the inauguration of joint naval exercises with India in Chennai on July 10, 2017. (ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty Images)
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A PLA Navy fleet including the aircraft carrier Liaoning, submarines, vessels and fighter jets take part in a review in the South China Sea on April 12, 2018. (VCG via Getty Images)
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Jamal Khashoggi in Bahrain, December 15, 2014 (MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
