1+ hour, 43+ min ago  (790+ words) How Islamabad Just Sidestepped Decades of Failed Middle East Policy'Foreign Policy in Focus Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (Shutterstock) How Islamabad Just Sidestepped Decades of Failed Middle East Policy The recent announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States…...

19+ hour, 24+ min ago  (604+ words) Before he became one of the great diplomats of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger wrote his dissertation about the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. Kissinger closely studied how European diplomats like Metternich constructed a new regional order after the defeat…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (863+ words) The United States is implementing such extreme policies in Syria that it is destroying what little hope remains for a better future for the country. President Donald Trump is leading the charge, despite his false claims about distancing the United…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1140+ words) President Donald Trump said a few days ago, "Cuba is next." By which he meant: next after Venezuela and Iran. He also recently mused, I do believe I'll be having the honor "of taking Cuba. That's a big honor. Taking…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (246+ words) As I consumed all of that " in the midst, of course, of President Trump's ill-conceived war on Iran " it struck me that we need to brace ourselves for ever more calamitous outcomes from Donald Trump's extreme leadership incompetence. In fact,…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (871+ words) Donald Trump and Narendra Modi (Shutterstock) Despite its domestic displays of strategic bravado, India has flinched in the face of real American pressure. In 2018, India signed a $5. 43 billion deal for Russia's S-400 air defense system, brushing aside the threat of U. S. sanctions....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (241+ words) Such a large-scale conflict is extremely costly not only in terms of lives lost but monetarily as well. The United States has spent $25 billion on the Iran War. Although some signs point toward an end to the conflict, the Pentagon…...

1+ week, 40+ min ago  (800+ words) Trump's Dual Obsessions Are Colliding, and China Is Gaining Ground'Foreign Policy in Focus Trump's Dual Obsessions Are Colliding, and China Is Gaining Ground As global markets continue to churn under the weight of a month-long conflict in the Gulf, the…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (721+ words) The latest technology can prove decisive in war. Think of the atomic bomb in World War II. Or the stirrup in the Mongol conquest of Europe and the Middle East. More recently, after the two sides had been deadlocked for decades,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (691+ words) The U. S. and Israeli war has, from its very beginning, violated both U. S. domestic and international law. Now, however, that future is in more danger than any other time in recent memory. Right now, Iranian civilians are paying the highest price. But…...