America’s best path for fighting Putinism goes through Beijing
Sino-Russian ties are on the rocks, and the West needs all the help it can get.
Sino-Russian ties are on the rocks, and the West needs all the help it can get.
They didn’t know if it was real or satire, but 55 years ago “Report from Iron Mountain” offered up very dire conclusions about civilization.
Erdogan’s gamble is a game of high-stakes poker, given that Russia is as much a partner as it is a threat.
Recent violence in Jerusalem is complicating normalization efforts in the Middle East.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
Though Russia’s war on Ukraine is a tragedy for the world, one group is already benefiting from it: U.S. arms contractors.
Always nimble, the pro-war raconteur is again making arguments for preventative war, just more obliquely.
What the historic Negev Desert meeting this week says about the emerging power re-alignment in the region.
The conservative Yoon Suk-yeol will take a harder line on North Korea and China. This might be harder — and more dangerous — than it sounds.
In their approach to Iran, Western policymakers should think beyond non-proliferation to account for the country’s attempts at strategic balancing.
Increasingly, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and others are realizing their ability to hedge for their own interests is narrowing.
The bottom line is that neither Russia nor China is willing or able to replace the United States as the Gulf’s security guarantor.
Instead of working toward a new, inclusive European security order, Clinton expanded NATO over the objections of a prostrate Russia.
Trump recognized the wholesale annexation of one country by another. If Biden lets that stand, the global implications are deeply troubling.
It is kind of a non-doctrine that balances manifold priorities and values in ways that can be helpful and, at times, frustrating.
You don’t realize how demonization – in the media and in politics – has poisoned the relationship until you step back and look at the history.
A tough US and European response to a Russian attack on Ukraine could ultimately lead to a cozier Russo-Iranian relationship.
A series of American presidents have led us toward the current crisis by repeatedly failing to take serious account of the Russian leadership’s perspective.
Tel Aviv has been canny about keeping its neighborhood undemocratic, and the balance of power in its favor.
Though separated by decades, both wars were driven by a doomed commitment to American exceptionalism and ever-expanding hegemony.
Recent regional developments are being driven by local dynamics, not great power rivalry. But China’s role in the Middle East is sure to grow.