May 24, 2022
With Taiwan comments, is Biden signaling a two-front war strategy?
Whether intentional or not, his insistence that the US will respond militarily to any Chinese attack belies a dangerous shift.
May 24, 2022
How long can Yemen’s fragile ceasefire hold?
So far, the Houthis have not matched the Arab coalition’s concessions and political maneuvering to make the peace permanent.
May 23, 2022
MSNBC’s China war game ends with calls for more weapons
Just over a week after the network hosted the simulated Sino-US conflict, President Biden said he’d be willing to defend Taiwan militarily.
May 23, 2022
Was the assassination in Iran another Israeli effort to sabotage JCPOA?
Previous killings all took place at times when Washington and Tehran appeared to be on the cusp of a diplomatic breakthrough.
May 23, 2022
New report: Decades of US military aid has been a disaster for Nigerians
Washington’s $2 billion counterterrorism program was supposed to enhance security, but it’s had the opposite effect.
May 23, 2022
The delusion of a global democratic rebirth through war
Western pundits and governments are wrongly using the war in Ukraine for goals (and distractions) that go far beyond the conflict there.
May 23, 2022
Ukraine and the power of nationalism
Zelensky is bringing his country together in unified resistance to Russian aggression. Can it remain that way beyond the invasion?
May 23, 2022
Washington already calling for thousands of new troops, permanent bases in Europe
Open letter urges Congress and White House not to see the war in Ukraine as an excuse for mission creep of the worst kind.
May 21, 2022
Taking it up an escalatory notch: US mulls sending anti-ship missiles to Zelensky
Washington only denies that it has “plans to destroy the Russian fleet.” This may be seen as another distinction without a difference.
May 20, 2022
Cotton picks fight with legacies of Washington and John Q. Adams
The senator alternately dismisses and then tries to co-opt early foreign policy traditions to mask his tired interventionism.
May 20, 2022
Why the Afghan government collapsed after the US withdrawal
A new report finds that Afghanistan’s military was set up to fail once the Americans pulled out.
May 20, 2022
Xi, Putin, and the irony of Biden’s war on autocracies
Cooperation between Russia and China is conceptually — and historically — shallow. So why are we working to make it deeper?
May 19, 2022
Will Palestinian issue upset emerging detente between Israel and Arab states?
Recent violence in Jerusalem is complicating normalization efforts in the Middle East.
May 19, 2022
When U.S. pivot is seen as an ‘expansion’ into Asia
It’s time to talk about what we can learn from NATO in Eastern Europe and its lessons for U.S. policy towards China.
May 18, 2022
Biden’s trip to Israel is getting trickier by the day
At what point will Washington acknowledge that our “special bond” is helping forestall peace and hurting US interests in the region?
May 18, 2022
Boycotts threaten to turn Biden’s Summit of the Americas into a political disaster
US neighbors say the president’s reported “democracy vs. autocracy” invite list is a no-go and are willing to forgo the whole thing.
May 17, 2022
Biden’s promise to end endless war hits a snag in Somalia
The US is reportedly redeploying troops with AFRICOM receiving a green light on drone strikes.
May 17, 2022
ASEAN’s new math: Washington should think addition, not subtraction
Trying to push China and Russia from this dynamic region of the Global South — whose secret sauce is inclusion — will be self-defeating.
May 17, 2022
Emir’s funeral becomes Biden’s hoped-for reset with UAE
The high level delegation sent to Abu Dhabi in the wake of Sheikh Khalifa’s death shows where the administration’s priorities are.