Iran rejects meeting as Biden’s slow diplomacy hits predictable snag
No one should have expected Tehran to leap into negotiations while Washington still refuses to lift sanctions, even minimally.
No one should have expected Tehran to leap into negotiations while Washington still refuses to lift sanctions, even minimally.
Biden says the “transatlantic alliance is back’ but NATO may never be the same, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Emboldened, the EU parliament passed measures that go way farther than even the Biden administration has gone.
During Trump’s tenure, the French president said NATO was in a ‘brain death’ spiral and was talking up a European army.
A new report from the European Parliament highlights areas of mutual interest.
Why lifting sanctions is a controversial, but realistic, approach after nine years of failure.
Biden can’t possibly revert to the narrative in which the U.S. tries impose its ‘exceptionalism’ on others.
Two measures condemning human rights abuses in Iran and Egypt highlight a glaring double standard.
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
Why are the U.S. and China considered the world’s two greatest powers when they both have bungled the coronavirus crisis so badly?
The argument advanced by Pompeo, Grenell, AJC and others that banning Hezbollah is not an obstacle to engaging with the Lebanese government is disingenuous at best.
While the U.S. fiddles with bad faith on Iran, Europe has an opportunity to lead and provide a better path forward.
While the world is facing a pandemic, Turkey is expanding its regional influence.
By choosing an “America First” brand of exceptionalism and showing haughty disdain to the views and interests of its allies, the United States risks entering this new era in a much weakened position.
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.’
From Hungary’s authoritarianism to Italy’s call for solidarity to Germany’s tightfistedness, European responses to COVID-19 are all over the map.
Europe’s workaround U.S. secondary sanctions is finally operational but will it be enough?
For the far right, the pandemic is a chance to enact border controls and erode the rule of law. It could also expose their utter incompetence.
The Bush administration cracked the U.S.-European alliance and the Trump administration appears poised to finish the job.
Turkey has triggered a renewed refugee crisis, but European states should shoulder a larger burden in helping alleviate the broader displacement crisis.
There are a handful of European countries that could revitalize the moribund diplomatic efforts with Iran.