Why the US can’t end the Saudi, UAE-led blockade on Qatar
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 blockade on Qatar is interfering with Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran, but his anti-Iran Saudi and Emirati partners won’t budge
With political troubles at home, French President Emmanuel Macron is turning his focus toward foreign policy.
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.
As we look inwards to dismantle America’s legacy of racism, we must also recognize that racism and militarism abroad are mutually reinforcing.
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.
Trump’s not-so-well thought out plan to reach a deal with the Iranians wasn’t going to work anyway but his top foreign policy advisers made sure of it.
When Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan announced austerity measures in May, economists and pundits assumed that was the death knell for trophy projects like NEOM.
Rather than herald the emergence of a new alliance in the region, the recent rapprochement between Iran and Turkey appears to be a marriage of convenience.
Rouhani knows very well that if his government continues to unilaterally implement the nuclear deal, he will come under more attacks from his political opponents and hardliners.