Iran has had weeks post-election to get back into nuke talks
Time is wasting, and as Tehran delays, it continues to accumulate enriched uranium and operate advanced centrifuges.
Time is wasting, and as Tehran delays, it continues to accumulate enriched uranium and operate advanced centrifuges.
Reports that a key reactor has been restarted indicates Kim Jong Un is frustrated with Biden’s lack of diplomatic urgency. Is he right?
The foreign policy elite are focused on defending their reputations and privileges, not in confronting failure in Afghanistan.
It required a ‘whole of government’ response, but DC wasn’t firing on all cylinders. There is plenty of blame to go around.
The administration is going to have to do a lot more than to troll China to show it’s diplomatically engaged with the region.
Start by asking who benefited from the protracted war, a question that will elicit uncomfortable truths about Washington.
Taiwan has increasingly become a test, though Japan’s interest in strengthening its security goes beyond Taipei.
Washington elites are rightly horrified by the Taliban’s swift takeover, but more troops and more time wouldn’t have made a difference.
But don’t expect a lot of pushback on settlements or a renewed push for two state solution. Right now this is about management.
Rejoining the JCPOA was a comparatively straightforward task which is taking too much time and effort to complete.
A sudden shift in casualty information provided by AFRICOM after US attacks in Somalia should be cause for concern.
With no end in sight and violence under the radar but ongoing, this is one ‘forever war’ that Biden risks perpetuating.
Despite years of policy and rhetoric designed to reproach Moscow, Washington now needs help containing the Taliban.
The administration has been sluggish in its pledge to withdraw material support to the Kingdom and help end the blockade in Yemen.
Excuses for why the US can’t lift Trump restrictions on the cash Americans send their families there are outdated and inaccurate.
Two administrations could have done something when it counted. But now ‘doing something’ is no longer welcome in Port-au-Prince.
The U.S. must find ways of advocating for basic democratic principles without using them as a cudgel to bash Beijing.
Leaving is the right thing to do, but failing to put effort into regional diplomacy now would be a real stain on his legacy.
Biden should know that Democratic values can’t be advanced by turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the persecution of peaceful activists.
What he gets from Biden will depend on whether his requests are compatible with the realities of the U.S. military withdrawal.
U.S. officials think Kabul could fall to the Taliban within six months, a sad indictment of our multibillion effort to build security there.