North Africa’s Scramble for the Sahel – By DALIA GHANEM
Algeria and Morocco are both seeking to fill the power vacuum that has emerged in the Sahel – long a theater for great-power rivalry. Each has a vision of bringing the region into its...
Category: International
Perspectives on U.S. Diplomatic Overreach in Nigeria, Governance Realities, and Moral Contradictions – by Collins Nweke
In an unusually blunt social media post, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria openly criticised Nigerian state governors for allegedly spending billions on luxury projects, whilst, at the same time, citizens grapple with severe economic hardship. While...
Did the Attacks on Iran Succeed?
Israel and America Bought Themselves Time but Will Pay in Other Ways – Richard Nephew On June 24, Iran, Israel, and the United States agreed to a cease-fire, putting a halt to nearly two...
[Q&A] How War Between Iran and Israel Could Escalate—and Drag In the United States
A Conversation with Daniel Benjamin Shapiro, former American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017. On the evening of June 12, Israel launched a series of major strikes against...
June 15, 1215 King John Puts His Seal On Magna Carta
Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter,” on June 15, 1215. The document, essentially a peace treaty between...
The Brewing War With Israel Is Boosting Iran’s Young Hard-Liners
Regional Conflict Favors Extremists in the IRGC – By Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi As Iran and Israel inch ever closer to a full-scale war, the Islamic Republic’s huge ballistic missile attack on Tel Aviv...
Putin’s Greatest Weakness
To Break the Kremlin’s War Machine, the West Must Exploit the Grievances and Fears of Ordinary Russians – By Peter Pomerantsev In early August, as Ukrainian forces burst across the Russian border on their way...
Harris, Trump Outline Starkly Different Visions in Tense, High-stakes US Debate – Emmanuel Addeh
Sparring on politics and personality, US Vice President Kamala Harris and ex-President Donald Trump showcased their starkly different visions for the country as they met for the first time last night. It was perhaps...
The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft
A grand strategy for a turbulent world – Walter Russell Mead The twenty-first century has seen the return to prominence of U.S. foreign policy traditions once largely considered relics of an outmoded past. Jacksonian...
The Perils of Isolationism – By Condoleezza Rice
The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in...
