Zhao Hai, Director of the International Politics Program in the National Institute for Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returns to the Trialogue to discuss the impact of the US-Israeli war with Iran, the state of US-China trade relations, the future of international institutions, and the prospects of stabilizing cross-strait relations, among other subjects.
Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center's Strategic Foresight Hub, returns to the podcast for a forward-looking conversation. We discuss global demographic decline, the energy transition, the promises and limits of AI, the future of the transatlantic relationship, and China's role in a multipolar world.
Strengthening capacity for Indo-Pacific cybersecurity through international law, norms, and confidence-building measures addressing regional priorities
Navigating the future of nuclear innovation and competition
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As states increasingly pursue justice outside of multilateral institutions, the gap between global governance and political reality is becoming impossible to ignore
Across the developing world, poor rural farming communities are being left behind, and without assistance, they risk taking the rest of their countries with them
As the war with Iran expands into a broader regional conflict, the Stimson Center's Environmental Security Program spoke with two leading experts on civilian infrastructure targeting in the Middle East to put last weekend's strikes in context
China shifts energy strategy toward North Africa amid Hormuz disruption, deepening oil diversification and accelerating green cooperation with Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt
Israel’s assassination campaign has led to the promotion of IRGC old-timers who are likely to prove more hostile to the U.S. and less nimble in negotiating an end to the war
