June 3, 2020
Tangling with the Russian bear above, and especially under, the seas does not comport with U.S. national security interests.
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June 2, 2020
No world power has undergone a collapse as dramatic as what the United States has been undergoing. Are we seeing the collapse of American hegemony?
June 2, 2020
Perhaps the most damaging effect of police militarization is that it pushes police officers engaging with the public to behave as they look, to act like soldiers dealing with enemy combatants.
June 2, 2020
The U.S. has made over $11 billion in major arms offers since the beginning of March, including to repressive regimes like the Philippines, Egypt, and the UAE.
June 2, 2020
We’re fast approaching the two year anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and the Trump administration has done nothing to hold Saudi Arabia accountable.
June 1, 2020
A common thread in Trump’s foreign policy is that the stated objectives are not real objectives.
June 1, 2020
Criticism of Donald Trump’s foreign policy often ignores the illiberal and undemocratic underbelly of Pax Americana.
May 31, 2020
“The U.S. is stuck in a broken, angry, and dysfunctional Middle East. It can’t transform the region — see Iraq and Afghanistan — and it can’t extricate itself from it.”
May 31, 2020
The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy warrant the same treatment?
May 30, 2020
Subject to Donald Trump’s disinterest and erratic impulses, and confronted by ambitious adversaries, the United States is treading water in the Middle East.
May 30, 2020
Now that Turkey has joined the fight, is Russia looking to settle for a stalemate?
May 29, 2020
Former U.S. diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford chronicles a chaotic time in South Sudan, a rarely discussed failure of Obama administration’s foreign policy.
May 29, 2020
If Israeli governments come to believe there is no price whatever to be paid by them for denying Palestinian statehood, they will never allow Palestinian statehood nor end their occupation.
May 29, 2020
Cutting the Pentagon budget needs a movement — a big one.
May 29, 2020
Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and their allies have handed Iran grounds to argue that it needs to enrich uranium to higher levels than are allowed under the JCPOA.
May 28, 2020
Just as quarantine and social-distancing measures have transformed people’s lives and work in the U.S., Washington’s war fighting will have to adapt.
May 28, 2020
The U.S. should fully withdraw its forces from Syria and use its remaining leverage to facilitate diplomacy between Syria’s neighbors that are heavily enmeshed in the civil war.
May 28, 2020
Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, hopes that the dangers of this disease could bring the six GCC members together have proven to be misplaced.
May 28, 2020
The COVID pandemic has highlighted the social, economic, and sectarian divisions in Bahrain, which the ruling family has failed to address, and oftentimes has exacerbated, in recent years.
May 28, 2020
The conventional arms trade is indeed a destabilizing factor in the Middle East, but a multilateral approach that does more than pressure one regional actor would be needed to address that problem effectively.
May 27, 2020
Why are the U.S. and China considered the world’s two greatest powers when they both have bungled the coronavirus crisis so badly?