Following their historic meeting on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula. But they offered few specifics. To break down what happened, how we got here, and what all this means, Asia experts Katrin Katz and Karl Friedhoff join Brian Hanson on this week’s Deep Dish podcast.
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The Council honored Timothy P. Shriver, Ph.D., chairman of Special Olympics International, and Carole Segal, co-founder of Crate and Barrel and president of The Segal Family Foundation, at its annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on June 18. Learn more about the event or watch honoree speeches.
Learn more"Allies are not threats," writes Council President Ivo Daalder. "To argue that steel imports from Canada pose a national security threat is, as Trudeau said, 'insulting and unacceptable.'" In This Week's Reads, Daalder spotlights the accelerated deterioration of the rules-based international order and the lasting damage it could impose.
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Throughout history, forward-looking statesmen such as FDR, Gorbachev, Rabin, and Walesa, leaders who anticipated change and were willing to build alliances and engage with adversaries, were able to promote peace under testing circumstances. What would such a strategy of preventive engagement look like for the United States today? And what are the risks of such an approach to international relations?
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Drawing heavily on Chicago Council Survey research in a new Atlantic piece, Ron Brownstein examines Trump's reprisal of a inter-party Republican foreign policy struggle from the 1950s. Using data about college educated and non-college educated Republicans, Brownstein traces the contors of two foriegn policy stances within today's Republican party.
Why are economists and policy makers so alarmed by the United States and China beginning a trade war? Phil Levy explains in Forbes the many reasons a trade war can severely cost an economy, including disrupting millions of jobs by introducing new trade and production patterns.
On June 25, Wilson Center Fellow Ed Hussain explores how tensions between the two main religious sects in the Middle East threaten to redraw the map of the region.
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