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U.S.-China Relations
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.

by George Beebe
Yemen
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.

by Mareike Transfeld
QiOSK
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.

by James Park
QiOSK
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.

by Trita Parsi

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Nigeria
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.

by Nick Turse
ukraine crisis
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.

by Anatol Lieven
ukraine crisis
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?

by Paul R. Pillar
Europe
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.

by David Vine
QiOSK
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.

by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
US foreign policy
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.

by Daniel Larison
Afghanistan
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.

by Adam Weinstein
Great Power Competition
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?

by Adam Pontius
Middle East
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.

by Daniel Brumberg 
US-China
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.

by Mark Kukis
Israel
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?

by Mitchell Plitnick
Latin America
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.

by Aileen Teague
Counterterrorism
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.

by Samar Al-Bulushi
southeast asia
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.

by Sarang Shidore
uae
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.

by Annelle Sheline
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QiOSK

MSNBC’s China war game ends with calls for more weapons
By James Park
Was the assassination in Iran another Israeli effort to sabotage JCPOA?
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Taking it up an escalatory notch: US mulls sending anti-ship missiles to Zelensky
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Rand Paul ‘single handedly’ holds up $40 billion Ukraine aid bill
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Giving Ukraine intel on Russian generals is a risky gamble
By Anatol Lieven

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