Pushing back on the ‘Indo-Pacific’ cliche
Many of the countries now lumped under this made-up rubric are wary of being drawn into a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China.
Many of the countries now lumped under this made-up rubric are wary of being drawn into a great power rivalry between the U.S. and China.
America’s most urgent infrastructure vulnerability is largely invisible and unlikely to be fixed by Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan.
Amid Washington chatter about the future of U.S.-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign.
Beijing wants to play a role in stabilizing the region. Let’s see what it’s got.
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.
The E3 should urge a resolution to the Iranian nuclear issue that takes note of the facts and provides context to current events.
A quick look back at the original Cold War should remind us that we’ll all pay a price of some sort for intensifying hostility towards China.
Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari lobbying money is flooding Washington, and in the process American policy has been knocked down for the count.
However difficult and long it takes, America has always been able to surmount its problems and renew itself. Thus current protests show not weakness but strength.
America’s racism is destroying its advanced status in real time — and with it, the most redeeming parts of liberal internationalism.
Jordan’s reaction to Israel’s looming annexation of parts of the West Bank might redefine the kingdom’s relations with both Israel and the United States.
No world power has undergone a collapse as dramatic as what the United States has been undergoing. Are we seeing the collapse of American hegemony?
The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy warrant the same treatment?
Philippine strongman Rodrigo Duterte is using the pandemic to crush his opposition — and the U.S. is poised to arm him to the teeth.
As “post-Covid” countries continue reopening their economies to business, the world may soon become divided into “Covid-safe” and “Covid-unsafe” zones.
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East.
For Americans, V-E Day marked the beginning of “our times.” The Covid-19 pandemic may signal that our times are now coming to an end.
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.
A bipartisan group of two dozen national security leaders urges the U.S. government to ease humanitarian trade with Iran in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United States and China have a golden opportunity to bridge their divide and fight a common enemy, the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opening for diplomacy in the U.S.-Iran relationship, but leaders in both Tehran and Washington are missing the chance.