TOPICS

Gregg Priddy  The Biden administration must defuse escalation before it’s too late. The sighs of relief in Washington that accompanied Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on November 3, in which he did not signal any immediate escalation against Israel, now seem premature. While it is clear that neither Iran …

Jerry Jaar The rationale and timing of the Biden-Xi meetup should be clear: both leaders are confronting challenges domestically and internationally. The United States announced in August new visa restrictions on current and former Chinese officials for their involvement in what U.S. and U.N. officials say is the …

Antonia Dimou Nowadays, there is a growing awareness of the geopolitical importance of the East Mediterranean in its own right, as an arena with explicit dynamics of cooperation, competition, and conflict. It has all the characteristics of a distinct region, which however interacts and functions in complementarity with …

James Dorsey It took Arab and Muslim leaders 35 days of war to call an ‘emergency’ meeting to discuss Israel’s assault on Gaza. Their limited ability to influence developments was on public display when they finally gathered this weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh. So were the differences …

Forecasting exercises focused on American power projection in the Indo-Pacific invariably hone in on the doom-and-gloom scenario of an outbreak of war between China and the United States as a result of territorial clashes – particularly maritime territorial clashes over Taiwan, or, more rarely, American forces intervening in …

Nadia Hilmi We can understand and analyze the Prime Minister’s conference in Sinai, in the presence of all political factions and artists, and its implications regarding the Palestinian issue and the protection of Egypt’s national security, with an analysis of the Prime Minister’s visit to the 101st Battalion, …

Nikita Angel Two months ago, Azerbaijan attacked Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, violating the 2020 ceasefire agreement. Analysts and witnesses alerted the world about a potential second Armenian genocide, disguised as anti-terror operations by Azerbaijani forces. The world leaders and international institutions expressed their usual default statements, calling for de-escalation …

Adam Arthur Readers of Foreign Affairs and similar publications will notice a particular pattern that plagues the frequent discussions of the American-led world order in policy circles. Specifically, in envisioning U.S. global leadership as a “Liberal Leviathan” that seeks to pursue hegemony or to maintain order over an …

Edward Salo Because of the rise of isolationism in Western nations, many nations that looked to the West for security protections began to work with China and other regional powers, like Iran, Brazil, or India, for security agreements. In this scenario, I project that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could …