December 6, 2019
…an ambitious reframing of U.S. engagement in the Middle East and Africa? And second, CVE caused friction in U.S. relations with Muslim societies and states, who viewed it as failing…
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October 15, 2020
It is now clear that France is seeking to fill the void created by the gradual demise of America’s influence in the Middle East and North Africa. With Emmanuel Macron…
November 4, 2020
…offensive pursuit of patronizing policies concerning the Arab world has swapped it with Israel as the primary perceived threat to the integrity and stability of Middle East and North Africa…
November 24, 2020
…and much of Africa will create an opportunity to reconfigure U.S. policy in a world that has changed dramatically since the United States recklessly embarked upon its crusade to transform…
May 29, 2020
In 1994, Susan Rice was the director of Africa affairs for the National Security Council during the Rwandan genocide. Rice allegedly said during a meeting that “if we use the…
December 4, 2020
…Mediterranean power, a Middle Eastern power, a North African and even limited African power, a Caucasian power, a Central Asian power, a Eurasian power, and especially a Muslim power. There…
December 7, 2020
…was focused on fighting the Global War on Terror (GWOT), a grueling, never-ending struggle to identify, track, and destroy anti-Western zealots in far-flung areas of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The…
December 7, 2020
…from a virtual shoo-in as the first woman defense secretary to being passed over for a military officer who, if confirmed, would be the first African American defense secretary. The…
December 10, 2020
…intransigence on the issue of Western Sahara also cost its membership in the African Union: when the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic was admitted as a member state in 1984, Morocco…
December 18, 2020
…Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.” The U.S. national security community has taken Gates’s words to…
December 18, 2020
…the “surge” in Afghanistan, the drone assassination campaigns, the special ops in Africa. But on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, something went “Trump” in the night and Donald J. Trump took over the presidency…
December 19, 2020
…Vela Hotel satellite that caught the Israelis and the South Africans secretly testing a nuclear warhead in the southern Indian Ocean in 1979. While other countries have similar platforms in…
September 26, 2020
…world that do not rely on employing more violence. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent $6.4 trillion on wars across the Middle East and North Africa, yet, the world is not safer….
September 20, 2020
…South Africa. According to Politico, “News of the plot comes as Iran continues to seek ways to retaliate for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, the…
August 26, 2020
…cause is primarily about injustice. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the seizure of Palestine by the European powers during the period of the British Mandate between the world…
July 3, 2020
…synergies that fill a void left by America’s widely absent or incoherent moral leadership. While Washington started to withdraw from the Middle East and North Africa already in the Obama…
June 3, 2020
…of no fewer than four governments in the Middle East and North Africa region in the past 20 years, presumably in furtherance of its strategic objectives. Unfortunately, the resulting instability…
June 23, 2020
…what has motivated Turkey to intensify its military intervention in Libya have spurred much debate across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Europe. The Turks are unquestionably…
June 25, 2020
…of any number of rivals. Still, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is unlikely to fall off the precipice of uncontained military confrontations. Faced by the human and…
July 1, 2020
…both Iran’s partners, back the LNA, the Islamic Republic would prefer to see the consolidation of the Turkish-backed GNA over the empowerment of the Saudi-Egyptian axis in North Africa. Furthermore,…
July 1, 2020
…Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch’s former Middle East and North Africa Director, and Abdullah AlAoudh, a Saudi legal scholar, dismissed NEOM’s grand ambitions. Mr. AlAoudh’s father Shaykh Salman Al-Odah, a…