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Lawfare Daily: Dispatches from the 2026 Aspen Security Forum

Tyler McBrien, Mark Goldberg, Kori Schake, Alex Zerden, Alexandra Bell, Jen Patja
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 7:00 AM

Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien hosted a series of conversations from the 2026 Aspen Security Forum.

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On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien brings you a series of edited conversations from the 2026 Aspen Security Forum, where he sat down with host and founder of the Global Dispatches Podcast and Editor-in-Chief of UN Dispatch Mark Leon Goldberg, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Kori Schake, Lawfare Contributing Editor and the founder of Capitol Peak Strategies Alex Zerden, and President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Alexandra Bell. 

They discussed the U.S.-Iran war, what’s left of bipartisanship in the Trump era, who from the current administration did—and didn’t—come to Aspen this year, what urgent foreign policy issues were missing from the agenda, and much more.

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Tyler McBrien

Tyler McBrien

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Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.
Mark Goldberg

Mark Goldberg

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Mark Leon Goldberg is a veteran international affairs journalist who writes the Global Dispatches Substack and hosts the Global Dispatches podcast.
Kori Schake

Kori Schake

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Kori Schake leads the foreign and defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute. Her book The State and the Soldier: a History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States comes out October 16th.
Alex Zerden

Alex Zerden

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Alex Zerden is the founder of Capitol Peak Strategies, a geoeconomic risk-advisory firm, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and American University Washington College of Law. Previously, he worked in the Treasury Department, including in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and as a financial attaché; at the White House National Economic Council; and in Congress.
Alexandra Bell

Alexandra Bell

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Alexandra Bell is the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
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