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“A security dilemma”: Japan struggles to find its global footing

“A security dilemma”: Japan struggles to find its global footing

by Katarzyna Nguyen | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, National Security

After what many called a successful meeting with President Donald Trump, Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi is leading a major change to Japan’s decades of pacifism: an increase in the defense budget.  Takaichi announced during her first parliamentary address...
The only US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty is nearing its end. What’s next?

The only US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty is nearing its end. What’s next?

by Sonya Dymova | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured, National Security

Donald Jensen recalled the unease he felt as he boarded a plane bound for Pskov, Russia, in 1988 to visit eight Soviet missile bases, part of a groundbreaking arms control effort following decades of Cold War brinkmanship. Months earlier, the United States and Soviet...
Tension between U.S. and Russia makes nuclear arms control top priority, expert says

Tension between U.S. and Russia makes nuclear arms control top priority, expert says

by Evelyn Wang | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON – The next president of the United States must make difficult decisions about further nuclear arms negotiations between the United States and Russia, an expert at the Brookings Institute said Monday. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will take office...

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