August 23, 2020
Attitudes across the Arab World have undergone a dramatic change in the past few years and this new political reality must be understood.
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August 22, 2020
Europe held serve at the UN Security Council this week, but if Trump wins re-election, it will be time for the EU to chart its own course.
August 21, 2020
Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s denials, sale of the F-35 to the UAE appears to have been at least tangentially part of the recent Israel-UAE deal on normalizing relations.
August 21, 2020
If nothing else highlights the absurdity of the U.S. effort to “snapback” sanctions on Iran at the UN, it’s a quote from Mike Pompeo himself back in 2018.
August 20, 2020
It appears that the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative has been scrapped and tensions with Iran will increase.
August 20, 2020
The Center for Civilians in Conflict’s U.S. Director responds to a recent issue brief from the Quincy Institute arguing that advocates of more humane war have failed and may have even enabled America’s post-9/11 wars to continue indefinitely.
August 19, 2020
For Trump, inflicting pain on others is the policy aim, probably because it makes him, and maybe even his supporters, feel better about their own lot.
August 19, 2020
While the snapback push at the U.N. Security Council will provide Iran hawks with the opportunity to act out a fantasy of killing the Iran nuclear deal, this time for good, the real world appears poised to move on.
August 19, 2020
Hawkish pro-Israel groups spent big trying to unseat Democratic candidates whom they viewed aren’t sufficiently supportive of Israel, and they lost big — perhaps marking a seismic shift in the domestic politics of U.S. Middle East policy.
August 18, 2020
House Democrats have introduced a bill that, if widely supported, has the potential to recalibrate regional policies that align more toward American interests.
August 18, 2020
From tariffs on Chinese products and that recent TikTok ban to slurs about the “kung flu” as the Covid-19 pandemic swept America, President Trump and his team have been expressing their mounting frustration over China and ramping up attacks on an inexorably rising power on the global stage.
August 17, 2020
The Trump administration has said and done little about the draconian measures regional autocrats have taken in response to COVID-19.
August 17, 2020
The Saudis appear to be abandoning an agreement they made with the Bush administration that they would not pursue enrichment and reprocessing.
August 16, 2020
The Israel-UAE peace deal provides multiple wins for both countries, and for the U.S. But it could yet deepen the region’s political fault lines.
August 16, 2020
As the Israeli government continues to deny Palestinians their basic rights, its democracy, and American Jewry’s support for it, are in peril.
August 15, 2020
The administration thinks it can get the arms ban extension, and much more, by now moving on to trigger snapback of all the pre-JCPOA sanctions.
August 15, 2020
This is the latest reminder that American diplomacy in the Middle East remains driven mainly by Israeli priorities and US domestic politics.
August 15, 2020
Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan are all at a turning point and authoritarian forces in the region are working hard to push them away from democracy.
August 14, 2020
Iran has threatened that it will react severely should the U.S. succeed in extending the arms embargo in violation of the nuclear agreement.
August 14, 2020
While hawks in Washington are clamoring for confrontation with Beijing, the geopolitical factors that have shepherded grand rivalries in the past just aren’t there today with the US and China.
August 13, 2020
Whether you call it a formal process or not, Palestinians have always known that Israel has been annexing parts of the West Bank.