April 13, 2020
In a post-COVID-19 world, U.S. national security strategy should be based on a just peace framework that constructively engages conflicts, breaks cycles of violence, and builds sustainable peace.
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April 12, 2020
The “Blowback” series, comprising three volumes, remains a prime source for understanding the motives of American foreign policy in the Trump era and merits a retrospective appreciation.
April 12, 2020
History has shown that GCC member-states move closer together in times of international/regional crisis, even if major underlying differences between them persist.
April 12, 2020
Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper are as good as their 1986 West Point class motto. When it comes to this country’s wars, neither of them ever quits.
April 11, 2020
In the upcoming coronavirus stimulus package, these officers and staff members should not only be given recognition for their heroism, but more importantly, they should be rewarded with hazard pay and provided the protective equipment they need.
April 11, 2020
“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.” – Albert Camus, The Plague.
April 10, 2020
The Trump administration is contributing to Iran’s COVID-19 crisis by refusing to suspend sanctions. But Iran’s self-imposed isolation is also a major factor.
April 10, 2020
The most devastating impact of coronavirus may stem from its function as a threat multiplier, much like climate change, which provides a stress test for the United States and for the global order — one that both are failing miserably.
April 10, 2020
The Trump administration seems to have no intention of offering sanctions relief to Iran amid the COVID-19 crisis and some sort of military confrontation as a result isn’t outside the realm of possibilities.
April 9, 2020
From Hungary’s authoritarianism to Italy’s call for solidarity to Germany’s tightfistedness, European responses to COVID-19 are all over the map.
April 9, 2020
Decades of militaristic foreign policy has left the U.S. ill-prepared to combat actual threats to Americans and the world.
April 9, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic is strangling Afghanistan, the country’s leaders are still in the beginning stages of negotiations to end decades of conflict.
April 8, 2020
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
April 8, 2020
Mohammed bin Salman’s chaotic and authoritarian stewardship at this moment may well impede the establishment of the fourth Saudi state he wants to lead.
April 8, 2020
President Eisenhower famously warned of the tradeoffs between foreign and domestic priorities, particularly when it comes to military spending.
April 8, 2020
Now is probably not the best time for the Defense Secretary to be tweeting about how nuclear weapons development is the Trump administration’s top priority.
April 7, 2020
The firing could be called a canary in the coal mine if Washington hadn’t already become littered with canary carcasses warning of a Trumpian dystopia devoid of truth and accountability.
April 7, 2020
If the coronavirus pandemic leads to partial deglobalization and delinkage, the U.S. could, if it chose, resist the urge to attempt managing stability in far flung places.
April 7, 2020
From the perspective of public discourse in the U.S., our globe-spanning, resource-draining military and security apparatus exists in an entirely parallel universe to the one most Americans experience on a daily level.
April 6, 2020
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Trump has gone from praising China one minute, to attacking China the next. That back and forth happens to mirror the views of some of his wealthiest supporters.
April 6, 2020
A bipartisan group of two dozen national security leaders urges the U.S. government to ease humanitarian trade with Iran in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.