Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boyes Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This is the seventh and final episode in a special 2004 U.S. election series here on the president's

inbox. Over the past

seven weeks, I have been sitting down with experts

to unpack some of the most

pressing challenges in the next

president's foreign policy inbox.

This week's topic

is, the Axis

of Autocracies Challenge.

With me to discuss the nature and significance of growing cooperation among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, among other countries, are Jennifer Kavanaugh and Andrea Kendall Taylor.

Jennifer is a senior fellow and director of military analysis at defense priorities. Her research

focuses on U.S. military strategy, forced structure and defense budgeting, the defense industrial

base, and military interventions and alliances in Asia in the Middle East.

She was previously a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,

and she worked for more than a decade as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Jennifer is also an adjunct professor in the

Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Her work has appeared in foreign affairs,

foreign policy, the New York Times, War on the Rocks, and the Washington Quarterly, among

other outlets. She is the co-author of the recent piece. The Axis of Evil is overhyped.

Andrea is a senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New

American Security. Her work examines Russia, authoritarianism, threats to democracy, and the state of the Transatlantic Alliance.

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