July 8, 2020
The Pentagon has more than it needs should it need to check China, but there’s a bipartisan push in Congress for more.
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July 8, 2020
With political troubles at home, French President Emmanuel Macron is turning his focus toward foreign policy.
July 7, 2020
Any effort to boost spending on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. In short, it’s time to defund our wars, both at home and abroad.
July 7, 2020
What McMaster and other members of the “blob” ignore is that it is the U.S. that is increasingly seen as a destabilizing force by allies and multilateral institutions.
July 7, 2020
Washington will be surprised by more chaos and instability if it does not take the Saudi-Turkish conflict as seriously as the Saudi-Iranian rivalry.
July 6, 2020
Resolving the tug of war in the Middle East will require a backing away from approaches that treat conflicts as zero-sum games, and engagement by all regional and external players.
July 6, 2020
Reporters are fascinated by a weapon that purportedly results in fewer instances of collateral damage, but its existence as a byproduct of endless war is often overlooked.
July 5, 2020
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism, we must also recognize that racism and militarism abroad are mutually reinforcing.
July 4, 2020
U.S. foreign policy making has been dominated by white men. While that’s starting to change, more needs to be done.
July 3, 2020
What is being forged on the ashes of America’s legacy in the region is an ideational partnership between two countries run by strongmen.
July 3, 2020
While Israeli leaders have said annexation of West Bank territory can now officially advance, EU leaders are avoiding talking about sanctions.
July 2, 2020
The U.S., guilty by association in the launch of the war in 2015, has failed to fully engage its diplomacy in the service of peace, continuing instead to fuel the fighting with huge arms sales.
July 2, 2020
The so-called “humanitarian disarmament” agenda is popular among the U.S. public but the Trump administration has failed to embrace it.
July 1, 2020
Trump’s not-so-well thought out plan to reach a deal with the Iranians wasn’t going to work anyway but his top foreign policy advisers made sure of it.
July 1, 2020
Eliot Engel’s stunning primary defeat should be a wake-up call for House Democrats for when they choose who will lead on foreign policy.
July 1, 2020
Members of Congress have jumped to action in the wake of the mass protests against police brutality but most often it’s the local police forces that have been militarizing themselves.
July 1, 2020
When Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan announced austerity measures in May, economists and pundits assumed that was the death knell for trophy projects like NEOM.
July 1, 2020
Rather than herald the emergence of a new alliance in the region, the recent rapprochement between Iran and Turkey appears to be a marriage of convenience.
July 1, 2020
What is distinctive about this moment is that, just as the pandemic is becoming worse than ever for the U.S. itself, it has become clear that Trump has abandoned efforts to control and defeat it.
June 30, 2020
Much of the media attention has focused on whether Trump knew and why he hasn’t done anything to stop it. But no one’s asking what’s motivating Putin.
June 30, 2020
Rouhani knows very well that if his government continues to unilaterally implement the nuclear deal, he will come under more attacks from his political opponents and hardliners.