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Hudson Institute Events Podcast
Founded in 1961 by strategist Herman Kahn, Hudson Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions through interdisciplinary studies in defense, international relations, economics, energy, technology, culture, and law. Hudson seeks to guide policymakers and global l...
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The Deepening Russia-China Partnership
The “no limits” partnership between China and Russia appears to be deepening. China’s provision of weapons components has served as a lifeline for the...
The View from Bucharest with Foreign Minister Oana-Silvia Țoiu
Both Washington and Bucharest underwent leadership changes in 2025. Less than four months after President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Romanian...
Relearning Great Power Diplomacy: A Conversation with Wess Mitchell
After the Cold War, Western leaders embraced the illusion that globalization and the spread of democracy would lead to the outbreak of peace around th...
Understanding China’s Political and Institutional Foundations: A Conversation with Chenggang Xu
To face the China challenge, the United States needs a better understanding of the Chinese Communist Party’s origins. How has the CCP maintained legit...
Sustaining the Nuclear Peace
This February, the United States Institute of Peace Senior Study Group on Strategic Stability released its 2025 report, Sustaining the Nuclear Peace.<...
The Politics of Purges: How Hu Yaobang’s Story Explains China’s Power Struggles
The Chinese Communist Party is an opaque authoritarian regime that many observers mistake as monolithic. But behind the image of strongman leadership...
North American Energy Dominance and the G7 Summit
Over the past decade, the United States and Canada have emerged as the world’s leading producers of oil, natural gas, uranium, and other critical ener...
Chokeholds and Choices: Securing Supply Chains in the US-China Rivalry
The world’s two largest economies remain deeply interdependent even as they race toward greater self-sufficiency. Recently, the United States and Chin...
Peace Through Strength: A New Strategic Review for a New Nuclear Age
China is undertaking an unprecedented strategic nuclear breakout and refuses to engage in productive discussions about its nuclear intentions. Meanwhi...
Venezuela: Can US Pressure Break Maduro’s Grip?
The Trump administration has taken unprecedented measures to increase the pressure on Venezuela’s repressive Maduro regime, which illegitimately maint...
Africa in the Dark: The Cost of Misguided International Energy Policies
After decades of growth, global electricity access has hit a downturn in recent years, especially in Africa. Roughly half the population of sub-Sahara...
Motwani Jadeja US-India Dialogue Series: US-India Relations and the Defense COMPACT
In February 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Donald Trump announced the US-India COMPACT (Catalyzing Opportunitie...
Industry, Security, and Community: Senator David McCormick on the Nippon Steel–U.S. Steel Deal
In May, Nippon Steel finalized the terms of its historic $26 billion partnership with United States Steel. Nippon Steel agreed to make invaluable inve...
Hybrid Warfare and CCP Infiltration: A Shared Challenge for US-Taiwan Security Cooperation
China’s sophisticated hybrid warfare is a key aspect of its campaign to undermine Taiwan’s resilience and discourage American involvement in the islan...
Southeast Europe’s Growing Role in European Energy Security
Southeast Europe, where Russia and Communist China have long sought to strengthen their foothold and expand their malign influence on the Continent, i...
Freeing China’s Political Prisoners
Given the scope and scale of the political prisoner crisis across China, the United States needs to do more to secure political prisoners’ release. Th...
The Digital Front Line: Building a Cyber-Resilient Taiwan
Taiwan sits at the intersection of geopolitics and global supply chains, and its democracy, technological prowess, and strategic location make it both...
The Sudan Conflict: Causes, Ripple Effects, and Current Trajectory
The two-year-old conflict in Sudan is disrupting one of Africa’s most important regions, threatening a major maritime shipping route, advancing Americ...
Counterterrorism and US Strategy with Dr. Sebastian Gorka
The Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East will host Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for countert...
Assessing the Armenia-Azerbaijan Agreement
President Donald Trump has invited Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to the White House for a landmark su...
Peru’s Strategic Moment
Peru is undergoing one of the most volatile political periods in its democratic history. President Dina Boluarte’s deeply unpopular administration fac...
How Congress Can Rebuild US Shipbuilding and Boost Maritime Security
For decades the United States Navy’s and Coast Guard’s fleets have been shrinking despite their increasing necessity. From the Gulf of America to the...
Gaza: Aid, Influence, and Information War
Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and Director for the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran for a conversation with Revere...
After the 12-Day War: Reassessing Military Power in the Middle East
Iran has entered a new phase of strategic uncertainty after successful Israeli and American military operations dismantled the Islamic Republic’s nucl...
Other Approaches to the US-Canada Trade Impasse
The United States and Canada are at an impasse on trade. Amid rising trade tensions, former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney rode a wave of nation...
David Petraeus on What Taiwan Can Learn from Ukraine’s Battlefield Experience
Major conflicts and shifting geopolitical alignments are reshaping the global security landscape. In light of this, many of Taiwan’s partners are pres...
Strategic Realignments: The Middle East After the Israel-Iran Conflict
Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs P...
Gazan Humanitarian Foundation Chairman Johnnie Moore on How Food Distribution Could Determine Hamas’s Fate
As reports emerge of widespread starvation in Gaza and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steven Witkoff works to negotiate the creation of a humanitari...
Achieving Adaptable Scale: Fielding Military Capabilities as a Service
Despite more than a decade of reforms to the United States Department of Defense’s acquisition processes, the Pentagon still struggles to field system...
Building a Flexible Force Modular Weapons and the Future of Defense audio
The Pentagon, defense companies, and think tanks all conclude that the United States’ weapons inventories are woefully inadequate for a war with China...
Tokyo as a Window for Global Japan: A Conversation with Governor Yuriko Koike
As a global trade and technology leader, Tokyo is a hub for international investment, innovative startups, and forward-thinking social and mobility in...
Senator Marsha Blackburn on AI, Online Safety, and Data Privacy
Hudson’s Center for the Economics of the Internet will welcome Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to speak about pressing digital safety issues facing Co...
Politics, Loyalty, and Survival: A Conversation with Salena Zito
Journalist and author Salena Zito will join Hudson Senior Fellow Paul Sracic to discuss her new book Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassinatio...
Countering Communist Cyborgs: China’s Dystopian AI Ambitions and the Robotics Race
Artificial intelligence is widely recognized as this century’s critical technology. The nation that leads in AI computational power, innovation, and d...
The Iranian Regime Under Pressure: What’s Next?
Operation Midnight Hammer, the United States’ recent strike against Iranian nuclear infrastructure, and Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which dismantl...
Drone Warfare and Securing America’s Military Against Emerging Threats with Senator John Boozman
In Operation Spiderweb, Ukrainian forces smuggled drones deep into Russia and used them to attack grounded aircraft. This tested a fundamental assumpt...
Next Steps in US-China Great Power Competition with the House Republican Policy Committee
As the Trump administration and 119th Congress recalibrate the United States’ foreign policy and national security approach, they need to maintain str...
Israel’s Economic Resilience after October 7: Navigating War and Strategic Pressures
Israel’s Minister of Economic Affairs Noach Hacker will join Hudson’s Michael Doran for a discussion on how Israel has fortified its economic foundati...
After Midnight Hammer: The State of Iran’s Nuclear Program and What’s Next in the Middle East
Institute for Science and International Security Founder and President David Albright, one of the leading experts on the Iranian nuclear program, will...
Investing in Africa
The Trump administration has vowed to make commercial engagement the centerpiece of a new United States policy toward Africa. Prioritizing “trade, not...