Recent Events
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Fit for Purpose?: The US-Japan Alliance at 60
As part of the Center for the National Interest’s series examining the evolving security relationship between the United States and Japan, the Center hosted a panel discussion on February 12, 2021 to discuss the nature of the alliance after sixty years. This session addressed the current policy effectiveness of the US-Japan alliance and prospects for
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Convergence and Divergence: US and Japanese Strategic Perceptions
As the Biden Administration begins to grapple with foreign policy challenges in Asia, the Center for the National Interest has launched a project examining the underlying assumptions and performance of the US-Japan security alliance. More than six decades after the 1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, Japan’s technologically advanced economy, democratic government, and hosting
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Russian Protests and American Interests
The Kremlin’s struggle with opposition leader Aleksey Navalny – poisoned last summer, then arrested following his dramatic recovery and return to Russia – is threatening to put the Russian government on a collision course with a reinvigorated protest movement at home and with the United States abroad. What is driving Putin’s actions toward Navalny? How
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CFTNI Launches its “Unobstructed Views” Web Series
On January 28, 2021, the Center for the National Interest began a new video series entitled “Unobstructed Views” which will run on the organization’s YouTube channel. This series of short videos will feature prominent foreign policy experts (including several analysts affiliated with the Center) discussing current topics in international affairs. “Unobstructed Views” seeks to provide
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Biden’s Europe Problem
The new Biden administration has made clear that strengthening relations between the United States and Europe will be one of its top foreign policy priorities. Biden officials view a reinvigorated NATO alliance – and a more robust community of transatlantic democracies—as critical to containing Chinese power, reining in Russia, and tackling climate change and other
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