The Weekly Leaf
This week, Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted her party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi visited Kyiv a few weeks after his visit to Moscow, and Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks stalled.
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This Week's Content Highlights
Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members
Joseph Nye for the Atlantic Council: “Think the American Century Is Over? Think Again.”
Condoleezza Rice for Foreign Affairs: “The Perils of Isolationism”
Chris Brose quoted by John Thornhill for the Financial Times: “The Appetite for U.S. Defence Tech Is Growing”
Chris Coons interviewed by Shannon Bream for Fox News Sunday
Michael Froman interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin for CNBC: “CFR’s Michael Froman on Foreign Policy & the 2024 Election”
Susan Glasser for The New Yorker: “The Speech of Kamala Harris’s Lifetime”
Jane Harman named an Institute of Global Politics Carnegie Distinguished Fellow
David Ignatius for The Washington Post: “An Eerie Quiet as Biden Races to Silence the Guns in Gaza”
Penny Pritzker interviewed by Brad Stone for Bloomberg TV
David Sanger for The New York Times: “Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat”
Tweet of the Week
Rising Leaders Program Highlights
Features from ASG Rising Leaders
Stephanie Guerra (‘22), Anita Cicero, Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, and host Bill Drexel at the Center for a New American Security: “AI and the Evolution of Biological National Security Risks”
Felicia Schwartz (‘24) for the Financial Times: “Philip Gordon, the Foreign Policy Pragmatist With Kamala Harris’s Ear”
Helen Toner (‘21) interviewed by Becca Szkutak for the Equity podcast: “Is There a Right Way to Regulate AI? A Conversation with Helen Toner”
Things to Know
Content Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions
AP News: “Moscow Sees One of Ukraine’s Largest Drone Attacks as Fighting Rages in Kursk and Eastern Ukraine”
Roger Brent, T. Greg McKelvey, Jr., and Jason Matheny for Foreign Affairs: "The New Bioweapons"
Brian Deese for Foreign Affairs: “The Case for a Clean Energy Marshall Plan”
The Economist: “The Mysterious Middlemen Helping Russia’s War Machine”
Steven Erlanger for The New York Times: “German Support for Ukraine Comes Under New Strains”
Pieter Haeck for POLITICO: “Germany Ties Itself to Taiwan on Chips. It Comes With Risks.”
David Hutt for DW: “Why Did Vietnam’s New Leader To Lam Visit China First?”
Takahashi Kosuke for The Diplomat: “Japan, India Agree to Enhance Security Cooperation at ‘2+2’”
Andrew Mills and Maya Gebeily for Reuters: “Exclusive: Israeli Demands for Troops in Gaza Blocking Truce Deal, Sources Say”
Lili Pike for Foreign Policy: “Rare U.S.-China Cooperation Pays Off on Fentanyl Regulation”
Gönül Tol for the Financial Times: “NATO Must Wake Up to Russia’s Nuclear Power Deal With Turkey”
Lisa Schlein for Voice of America: “Absence of Sudan Army Delegation Hobbles Progress in U.S.-Mediated Peace Talks”
Kejal Vyas for The Wall Street Journal: “Maduro’s Hand-Picked Supreme Court Calls Him Venezuela’s Election Winner”
From the Archives
Revisit our conversation on India from the 2024 Aspen Security Forum.
Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Former U.S. Ambassador to India
Bharat Lal, Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission, India
Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute
Moderator: Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy
Book of the Week
By Barbara W. Tuchman
"In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages."
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