🚨Join us NEXT WEEK for an event co-hosted with Japan's CIGS to discuss the regional conflicts in #Ukraine , #Gaza , and tensions in the #IndoPacific . With Kunihiko Miyake, David Shear, Barbara Slavin, and Yuki Tatsumi.

📅 May 22
⏰1:30 - 2:30 PM EDT

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🔴LIVE NOW: Join us for a discussion on the evolving relationship between Northeast Asia—particularly #SouthKorea and #Japan —and #NATO . With Bo Ram Kwon, Michael Reiterer, and Yuki Tatsumi. Moderated by Jenny Town.

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🚨Join us TOMORROW for a discussion on the evolving relationship between Northeast Asia—particularly #SouthKorea and #Japan —and #NATO . With Bo Ram Kwon, Michael Reiterer, and Yuki Tatsumi. Moderated by Jenny Town.

⏰9:30 - 11:00 AM EDT

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For followers of the Mekong Dam Monitor, we have a new web address. Find Mekong Dam Monitor here:

mekongmonitor.stimson.org

Join Stimson Center's Uzair Sattar on 5/23 at 10:30am for a discussion on new research from Visiting Fellows Anuttama Banerji, Haleema Saadia, M. Shareh Qazi, and Ladhu Choudhary -- NCBMS, cyber, defense reforms, and transboundary water issues (oh my!). stimson.org/event/southern…

'...As long as coercive measures remain permissible and threats are normalized, broader efforts to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities in conflict zones...are likely to be in vain,' says Ludovica Castelli on the state of #Israel and #Iran 's security.

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The Houthis are stretching the US Navy in more ways than one. How can this happen with the billions we've poured into shipbuilding for the last 20 yrs? Dan Grazier Stimson Center explains: responsiblestatecraft.org/red-sea-houthi…

'Following the onset of the encampment and subsequent police intervention at Columbia University...Iranian officials and state media seized upon the news to advance their own anti-Israel propaganda,' argues Ali Afshari in the latest commentary.

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Great discussion of how the politicization of the UN Panel of Experts’ work has evolved over the years and the significance of its dissolution.

What can the #UNSC do to better accentuate priority tasks in UN Peacekeeping mandates? How to best sequence these tasks?

Today’s workshop on Prioritization, Sequencing & Streamlining of SC Mandates was a great opportunity to explore such questions & nurture common understanding.

My latest TRT World article is about President Xi’s #Europe tour that brought him to #France , #Serbia , #Hungary . This piece quotes Mathieu Droin, Nemanja Starović, Никола Миковић / Nikola Mikovic, AIES’s Wolfgang Pusztai, and Stimson Center’s Yun Sun.

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🚨Join us as our South Asia Program Visiting Fellows present their research on policy issues in the region. With Anuttama Banerji, Haleema Saadia, Muhammad Shareh Qazi, and Ladhu R. Choudhary. Moderated by Uzair Sattar.

📅 May 23
⏰10:30 - 11:45 AM EDT

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In a 🆕 series of videos, International Nuclear Security Forum Director Christina McAllister speaks with Samantha Neakrase of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration #NNSA to discuss what #ICONS is, why it’s important, and the U.S. delegation's goals.

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📹NEW VIDEOS

NNSA Senior Advisor Samantha Neakrase spoke with INSF Director Christina McAllister to preview ICONS 2024 and discuss the goals of the U.S. delegation. Check out our new video series to learn more!⬇️
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📢Happening Now: “Prioritizing, Sequencing, and Streamlining UN Security Council Mandates: Taking Stock of the Lessons Learned and Pathways Forward.”

This is the latest in a series of expert-level workshops co-organized w/Stimson Center and Security Council Report evaluating UNSC mandates.

New conflict mediation chapter from Jesse Marks جيسي ماركس 马辙新: China’s Strategic Facilitation in the Persian Gulf Security Crisis

How does China approach crises in the Persian Gulf given its growing interests and investments in the region?

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🚨 Join us NEXT WEEK for an expert discussion on #UNRWA and its viability without U.S. support today in #Gaza and the #MiddleEast . With William R. Deere, MerissaKhurma, and Andrew G Hyde. Moderated by Barbara Slavin.

📅 May 20
⏰12:00 - 1:30 PM EDT

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'Washington’s current approach is a strategic cop-out—and risks making another forever war.'

Explains Cato Foreign Policy's Joshua Shifrinson, @Stimsoncenter's Emma Ashford (@emmamashford.bsky.social), and Carnegie Endowment's Stephen Wertheim for Foreign Policy.

#NATO #Ukraine
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NEW Dan Grazier Stimson Center : The Navy is struggling to meet some of its operational requirements in the Red Sea in part because it simply doesn’t have the ships it expected for the job. And it's not about money, it's about the contractors and design.
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NEW Trip the Beltway Fantastic! My friends Dan Grazier & Julia Gledhill Stimson Center on how major US arms contractors took advantage of COVID and Ukraine to get goodies they always wanted but none of it makes YOU any safer. Surprise!
Listen now: youtube.com/watch?v=rXfVRr…