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Age of Uncertainty: Imagining a New World Order
![America’s New Frontier](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/0ad554d3-8091-4f12-aa2a-b4aaceb8f3b7/53014389803_85147ffa84_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=269%2C0%2C3674%2C5504&w=400)
Join John Hamre, CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, for a dynamic exploration of the transformational forces that will shape the global community throu...
![Israel and Palestine: One State or Two?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/78f16c98-8f9f-49eb-829f-49d54f3fb239/53013905571_4364f58c05_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C623%2C5670%2C3190&w=400)
With the dream of the Oslo Accords long in the rear-view mirror and no prospect of an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians ahead, is it time to give up on the two-state...
![Wicked Problem: The Challenge of China](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/903695eb-0859-441e-b93e-b17f6411a050/53014373973_4704681ee8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C243%2C8256%2C4634&w=400)
In this new Aspen Ideas format, all attendees gather each morning to kick off the day by exploring a current issue of deep complexity. With heightened political tensions an...
![The Future of Israeli Democracy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/58cbefb5-a092-4096-9db2-a4c1dbb13be0/53012170923_2023f576e0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C24%2C5380%2C3020&w=400)
As Israel marks its 75th birthday, the existential challenges it faces don’t only come from geopolitical vulnerabilities. How will the Jewish state confront internal divisions...
![The Cold War in Africa](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7964b4a8-087c-4d3c-8ec7-073964870e47/53011911914_fa6f2ed236_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=600&q=80&rect=1090%2C0%2C3097%2C4640&w=400)
The war in Ukraine has once again highlighted the importance of international alliances, and that is certainly evident on the African continent, where the world’s superpowers...
![The Dilemmas of Hostage Diplomacy](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/aeffe362-12cf-489e-8e95-b6fd9e7b0cde/53008893562_75b393a9ae_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C77%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
Hostage-taking presents nations with a conundrum: How can governments bring their citizens home while also preventing further captures? The United States’s top hostage negotia...
![The Meaning of Friendship: NATO in the Wake of Ukraine](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/7e22c8e9-634b-4b0b-b658-37365c5acf26/53003393567_285d8eef98_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C339%2C5656%2C3182&w=400)
Ongoing war in Ukraine and the resulting tensions between the West, Russia, and China have made the NATO alliance all the more significant, and yet perhaps more vulnerable. Wh...
![The Global Swing State: India’s Role in the New World Order](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/a765e2ce-3bae-4062-bab9-5cb7a6e20465/53004430071_7feb26fe36_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
With renewed conflict on the international stage, India’s decades-long policy of nonalignment, together with its surpassing China as the most populous nation, have arguably po...
![Politics on the Pitch: Sports in the Geopolitical Arena](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/68e12251-7f73-4bf0-b323-cea54aa2481a/53000161377_1aeb08e4f8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C145%2C3531%2C1989&w=400)
Since the dawn of the Olympics, sports have been a contest of global powers. Today, how are sports used as a means of conducting foreign policy — for better and for worse?