Welcome to Sanctions 101. In this three-part series, Jen Psaki sits down with Senior Fellow Jarrett Blanc, former treasury secretary Jack Lew, and lawyer Greta Lichtenbaum to explore how sanctions really work and the way policymakers should think about using them.

Sanctions 101

This week we’re digging into NATO—what it is, how it’s changed, and where it’s headed.

NATO 101

Asia is changing — but that cannot be understood only by following government negotiations and national trade and investment statistics. Asia Local/Global looks beyond national capitals for the local trends and perspectives now  shaping the region’s future.

Asia Local/Global

Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment and twice U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, interviewed Jack Hu, Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan and the J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing at Michigan Engineering – and soon to become the Provost at the University of Georgia. We called him because Michigan has developed a network of partnerships with Chinese institutions and companies, in some cases in areas that are changing the face and nature of manufacturing. We wanted to understand not just what China (and Asia, for that matter) mean to an American research university, but also how these collaborations reflect local-level considerations, strategies, and advantages.

Asia Local/Global - Interview with Jack Hu

Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment and twice U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, interviews Stan Garbacz, interim director of the Center for Global Engagement at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and formally the State of Nebraska’s Agricultural Trade Representative. As Nebraska’s Agricultural Trade Rep, Garbacz was responsible for furthering Nebraska exports and make Nebraska products the products of choice in other countries.

Asia Local/Global - Interview with Stan Garbacz

Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment and twice U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, interviewed Naoki Ito, the Japanese consul-general in Chicago, where he represents Japan in ten Midwestern American states - from Iowa and Nebraska, through both of the Dakotas, right on to Indiana and Ohio.

Asia Local/Global - Interview with Naoki Ito

Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment and twice U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, interviewed Matt Sheehan, who’s got a new book out on the complex and sometimes highly competitive ties between California and China. We wanted to give him a chance to dig into the topic in some new ways.

Asia Local/Global - Interview with Matt Sheehan

Alexander Gabuev, Senior fellow and chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, interviewed Ivan Zuenko from the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is based in Vladivostok. Zuenko discussed China's presence in the Russian Far East and how Russia-China relations look from the "local" perspective of a city located on the Pacific Rim and far away from the halls of power in Moscow.

Asia Local/Global - Interview with Ivan Zuenko

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