Main Reports

The Cold War shows that the United States and Soviet Union periodically cooperated to advance their security and prosperity, which offers important lessons for the U.S.-China relationship today. 

Game-changing opportunities for social impact in health, climate change, and food security are within reach but will depend on new mechanisms enabling collaborations among partners in the United States and China to proceed in informed, geopolitically sensitive ways. 

This brief for the “Advancing Collaboration in an Era of Strategic Competition” project explores the motivations and mechanisms behind U.S.-Soviet coordination on smallpox eradication, drawing lessons for how rivals can approach collaboration on issues of shared concern.