This project provides opportunities to explore U.S. economic, political, and security goals and exposes participants to the complex U.S. foreign policy decision-making process. Meetings focus on U.S.-European relations and cooperation regarding the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; post-COVID politics and economies; fighting disinformation online; climate change; Afghanistan; protecting and promoting marginalized communities; countering violent extremism; the U.S. strategic course in Asia and the Pacific; responding to China's influence in Europe; stability and democratization in Southeast Europe; nuclear nonproliferation; energy security; and immigration.