Pivotal Places

Pivotal Places

Projects
Recent Publications
Commentary
Back to the Future? The Implications of Growing Strategic Competition in the Arctic for the US-Japan Alliance
Growing U.S. attention toward the Arctic may push Japan’s defense establishment to dust off its Cold War playbook
Yuki Tatsumi
Podcast Episode 🎧
Christopher Caldwell: The Right Since Reagan
Writer Christopher Caldwell joins us to discuss the legacy of Ronald Reagan, the rise of a “New Right,” and the fate of the West.
Christopher Caldwell • Peter Slezkine
Commentary
In Myanmar, A Tragedy Atop A Crisis
Aftershocks, airstrikes, and aid restrictions hamper emergency response efforts, but fragile pauses on armed offensives offer some hope
Steve Ross
Policy Memo
The Advocate and the Anchor: Congress and the Future of the U.S.-Japan in the Indo-Pacific
How U.S. congressional leadership can stabilize the Indo-Pacific amid growing uncertainty
Mizumi Dutcher
Report
Mekong-U.S. Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogue on Countering Scam Operations
This conference summary report highlights opportunities for collaboration through the Mekong-U.S. Partnership related to countering online scam operations
Brian Eyler • Courtney Weatherby • Allison Pytlak
Commentary
Navigating Security, Economy, and Diplomacy in Post-Assad Syria
Syria’s interim government faces urgent security and economic challenges while seeking domestic and international legitimacy
Alexander Langlois
Commentary
Pragmatism Shapes Growing GCC Engagement With the Taliban
The de-facto normalization of relations between GCC nations and the Taliban reflects the Gulf’s interest in seeing Afghanistan stabilize
Leonardo Jacopo Maria Mazzucco
Commentary
Facing the Future: Global South Climate Priorities in Trump’s Second Term
Global South actors have an opportunity to step up as U.S. climate cooperation is scaled back under the second Trump administration
Aude Darnal • Diogo Ives • Valerie Onu...
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Experts
Events
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Natural Resources Safeguards and Security as a Part of the Indo-Pacific Vision
  • March 2, 2020
  • 2:30pm - 4:00pm
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Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula: Different Ways, Same Goal
  • January 31, 2020
  • 12:00pm - 1:30pm
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The “New North Korea”: Security Implications of North Korea’s Social Changes
  • December 10, 2019
  • 12:00PM - 1:30PM
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Contesting the Indo-Pacific: Military Technology and the Shifting Offense-Defense Balance
  • November 7, 2019
  • 10:00am-11:30am
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A Long Separation: A Photo Series of Korean Separated Families
  • October 21, 2019
  • 5:30PM - 7:30PM
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Voices from Japan: Japan’s National Security Policy and the U.S.-Japan Alliance in the 2020s
  • October 15, 2019
  • 10:30am-12:00pm
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Between Two Giants: The Korean Dilemma within U.S.-China Competition
  • October 2, 2019
  • 12:30pm-2:00pm
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A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History
  • October 9, 2019
  • 2:00pm-4:00pm
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