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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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South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom between South and North Korea, April 11, 2018 (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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NATO Cyber Warfare Exercise in Poland, June 22, 2017 (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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U.S. and Japanese naval forces participate in the Keen Sword 15 joint exercise in 2014 (Photo 12/ UIG via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko at a meeting of the UN Security Council discussing peacekeeping operations, September 20, 2017 (Mikhail Palinchak\TASS via Getty Images)
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President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel at the G20 summit in Hamburg, July 8, 2017 (Ukas Michael - Pool/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a joint press conference in Tokyo, November 6, 2017 (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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(Image credit: Roy Scott)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/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
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
