The Brookings Foreign Policy Interview series convenes Brookings experts on a range of foreign policy challenges facing the United States to explore and debate diverse viewpoints and policy options. From the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula to U.S. policy in Afghanistan to the military and economic rise of China, Brookings scholars bring a variety of perspectives on today’s top challenges in international affairs. The interviews in this series are edited transcripts based on in-depth conversations guided by Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Bruce Jones.

The global response to US-China great power competition

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

China Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, Ted Reinert

July 1, 2020

Japan

Japan The stress test: Japan in an era of great power competition

Richard C. Bush, Lindsey W. Ford, Ryan Hass, Adam P. Liff, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Jonathan D. Pollack, Mireya Solís, Bruce Jones, Laura McGhee, Ted Reinert

October 21, 2019

US-China competition

China's President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1A35CB9F20

China Rethinking US-China competition: Next generation perspectives

Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Bruce Jones, Will Moreland

June 26, 2019

China's Belt and Road

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a news conference at the end of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC16AB221480

China China’s Belt and Road: The new geopolitics of global infrastructure development

Amar Bhattacharya, David Dollar, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, Bruce Jones, Homi Kharas, Jennifer Mason, Mireya Solís, Jonathan Stromseth

April 18, 2019

Nonproliferation

The Titan Missile, shown from above during a tour of the 103-foot Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) site which was decommissioned in 1982, at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona, U.S., February 2, 2019. REUTERS/Nicole Neri - RC1218FFA6D0

Arms Control & Nonproliferation Managing risk: Nuclear weapons in the new geopolitics

Madelyn R. Creedon, Robert Einhorn, Kate Hewitt, Bonnie Jenkins, Bruce Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Jung H. Pak, Frank A. Rose, Strobe Talbott

February 11, 2019

Middle East and North Africa

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Pavel Golovkin/Pool - RC19885B9FF0

U.S. Foreign Policy The new geopolitics of the Middle East: America’s role in a changing region

Jeffrey Feltman, Samantha Gross, Martin Indyk, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, Amanda Sloat, Angela Stent, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Bruce Jones

January 7, 2019

Russia

Putin attends a meeting with members of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights in Moscow

Russia Restoring equilibrium: U.S. policy options for countering and engaging Russia

Sergey Aleksashenko, Pavel K. Baev, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Steven Pifer, Alina Polyakova, Angela Stent, Strobe Talbott, Thomas Wright, Torrey Taussig, Bruce Jones

February 16, 2018

China

Soldiers carry a Chinese Communist Party flag and Chinese national flags before the military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) at Zhurihe military base in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

China Avoiding war: Containment, competition, and cooperation in U.S.-China relations

David Dollar, Ryan Hass, Robert Kagan, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Cheng Li, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Jonathan Stromseth, Bruce Jones, Tarun Chhabra

November 21, 2017

Afghanistan

A U.S. Marine from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company looks out as an evening storm gathers above an outpost near Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, February 22, 2011. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2K2IW

Afghanistan Rightsizing expectations: U.S. policy options for Afghanistan

John R. Allen, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Tanvi Madan, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Tarun Chhabra, Bruce Jones

July 12, 2017

North Korea

North Korea Averting catastrophe: U.S. policy options for North Korea

John R. Allen, Richard C. Bush, Robert Einhorn, Steven Pifer, Jonathan D. Pollack, Evans J.R. Revere, Tarun Chhabra, Bruce Jones

April 28, 2017