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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
Security Alliances
Security Alliances
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, meets German Foreign Minister on September 05, 2018 in Ankara, Turkey. (Inga Kjer/Getty Images)
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Cargo is unloaded from a Russian AN-124 cargo plane transporting parts of the S-400 air defence system from Russia, after it landed at Murted Airfield on July 12, 2019 in Ankara, Turkey. (Mustafa Kirazli/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump arrive for the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (Getty Images)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets with Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, on June 21, 2017 in Ramallah, West Bank. (Getty Images)
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Polish President Andrzej Duda and US President Donald Trump shake hands after a joint press conference at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. (WOJTEK RADWANSKI/Getty Images)
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President Donald J. Trump and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at the G20 Summit. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to media, May 25, 2019 in New Delhi, India. (Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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U.S. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan hosts a multi-lateral meeting with Asian nations, at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2019, Singapore, May 31, 2019. (Lisa Ferdinando)
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U.S. President Donald Trump inspects a guard of honour, during his Ceremonial Welcome in the Buckingham Palace Garden on day 1 of his State Visit to the UK on June 3, 2019. (Indigo/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
