November 30, 2020
How a ‘rapid withdrawal’ from Afghanistan is logistically possible
Could is not should, of course, but those who say a full pullout within weeks can’t be done are wrong.
November 30, 2020
President Pompeo? How one secretary turned a doctrine into a possible bid for higher office
His Middle East ‘farewell tour’ smacked of an effort to cement relationships with autocratic rulers and the GOP base.
November 30, 2020
A more humble foreign policy: can this Biden team deliver?
A restoration of global dominance and intervention is the wrong antidote for the sickness afflicting the country today.
November 29, 2020
Trump killed the China Fulbright program. Biden can bring it back
Keeping students from traveling overseas for even a year is undermining our understanding and appreciation of each other.
November 28, 2020
U.S. diplomacy is failing in Ethiopia, in new ways and old
For decades, our Africa policy has taken a blunt approach, quickly designating the good guys and the bad and painting each with a broad brush that demands unquestioning loyalty or enmity.
November 28, 2020
Biden must reject the pull of the American hegemonic mindset
The unipolar world is over, but it’s taking some on both sides of the ideological spectrum a long time to admit it.
November 27, 2020
How the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist can sabotage diplomacy & start a war
While it’s currently unclear who is responsible, Israel has the motive and an enabler in Washington.
November 27, 2020
In new book, Jerome Slater addresses ‘mountain of misinformation’ in Israel-Palestinian conflict
The author tackles a series of entrenched historical myths, but offers a somewhat unrealistic way forward.
November 27, 2020
Team Trump determined to drop foreign policy bombs on the way out
Everything the outgoing administration is doing today seems coordinated to obstruct the Biden team tomorrow.
November 25, 2020
Why MBS is keeping visit by Netanyahu and the Mossad on the down-low
Israel certainly wants the Saudis to get on the normalization bandwagon, but the monarchy has other, domestic considerations.