Back to square one, as the JCPOA turns five
Seeing a deal fall apart despite having fully abided by it makes it almost impossible in Iran’s domestic scene to make the case for any renewed engagement.
Seeing a deal fall apart despite having fully abided by it makes it almost impossible in Iran’s domestic scene to make the case for any renewed engagement.
What has been the actual influence of the veterans now in Congress on this country’s war policy? For the twenty-first century, remarkably enough, the simple answer is: not much.
Looking ahead, the misery in Yemen is set to increase, possibly exponentially, as COVID-19 keeps on transmitting across the country.
Decades of disarray have led many to wonder: What’s going on with the U.S. Navy?
The blockade on Qatar is interfering with Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran, but his anti-Iran Saudi and Emirati partners won’t budge
The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked.
It’s a fairly simple equation: If there were no U.S. troops in Afghanistan, there would be no Russian bounties on them.
A recent New York Times story hyping a supposed ‘nuclear buildup’ in China sends the wrong messages and ignores what China is actually up to.
Subjecting its conduct to scrutiny by bodies such as the ICC and Human Rights Council can aid the United States in living up to its own standards, values, and principles.
The Pentagon has more than it needs should it need to check China, but there’s a bipartisan push in Congress for more.
With political troubles at home, French President Emmanuel Macron is turning his focus toward foreign policy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism, we must also recognize that racism and militarism abroad are mutually reinforcing.
U.S. foreign policy making has been dominated by white men. While that’s starting to change, more needs to be done.
What is being forged on the ashes of America’s legacy in the region is an ideational partnership between two countries run by strongmen.
While Israeli leaders have said annexation of West Bank territory can now officially advance, EU leaders are avoiding talking about sanctions.
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.