The future of war in Yemen amid COVID-19 and a failed ceasefire
Saudi Arabia recently announced a ceasefire in Yemen, and then immediately violated it. What’s next?
Saudi Arabia recently announced a ceasefire in Yemen, and then immediately violated it. What’s next?
Donald Trump’s North Korea policy has failed. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has the mandate, and the competence, to take over and lead.
A threat like a global health pandemic doesn’t care about any American president’s sense of national supremacy.
The coronavirus outbreak has made a bad situation worse for so many, particularly Afghan refugees inside Iran.
Neuroscience shows that anxiety inhibits rational decision-making, but that is precisely what we need to help alleviate our fears surrounding the coronavirus.
If we don’t pay substantial reparations to make good our relationship with Mother Earth, she will continue to send us these little viral messages.
Pulling funding for the World Health Organization follows Trump’s pattern of slowly dismantling multilateralism, which appears to be his ultimate goal.
The Hobbesian vision of the future international order can contribute to dismantling the multilateral liberal system, but it does not have an alternative vision to replace it beyond the classic ‘might makes right.’
In the absence of a coherent response from the United States, the pandemic has paved the way for China to bolster its ambitions and validate its political values.
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.
History has shown that GCC member-states move closer together in times of international/regional crisis, even if major underlying differences between them persist.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
From Hungary’s authoritarianism to Italy’s call for solidarity to Germany’s tightfistedness, European responses to COVID-19 are all over the map.
Decades of militaristic foreign policy has left the U.S. ill-prepared to combat actual threats to Americans and the world.
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.
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
President Eisenhower famously warned of the tradeoffs between foreign and domestic priorities, particularly when it comes to military spending.