Outside Publications

The Moshe Dayan Center In recent years, it has become part of conventional wisdom in Israel that there are unprecedented opportunities for regional security cooperation between Israel and the conservative Sunni Arab regimes: Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the...

The National Interest The Russia-sanctions train appears to be accelerating out of the congressional station, which makes it highly unlikely that both chambers of the Legislative Branch will want to revisit its provisions, especially when escape from Washington’s heat beckons with...

Ethics and International Affairs One of my colleagues, David Houghton, has developed several “types” of leaders based on different characteristics, one of which is “homo economicus” (literally, the “economic person”)–in other words, a leader who makes national security decisions based on the criteria...

The George W. Bush Institute This is what a constitutional separation of power looks like: Poland’s President Andrzej Duda surprised observers across Europe by vetoing two bills that had been rushed through parliament and would have given his own...

Foreign Policy I first got to know John McCain when I was a fresh-faced analyst at the recently established Congressional Budget Office and he was a captain in the Navy’s Office of Legislative Affairs. We dealt briefly with each other...

The Hill Shuttling between my home in North Africa, business partners south of the Sahara, and friends in the United States, I’m struck by the disparity in perception of the American president.  In Washington, from both sides of the...

Foreign Policy July 4 was a bad day for Washington’s North Korea policy and not just because of Pyongyang’s successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. There was also a meeting that day in Moscow between Russian President Vladimir...

Defense Acquisition Research Journal Using big data and predictive analytics, more segments of the U.S. military will be able to create decision support tools that help them not only to carry out their missions more efficiently, but also to...

Majalla On June 25, China’s aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, departed Qingdao, the largest city in the Shandong Province and an important naval base on the Yellow Sea, for a training mission. The carrier is accompanied by the destroyers Jinan...

American Greatness I guess that in this day and age, we shouldn’t be surprised that a high school student was able to obtain Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis’s cell phone number and call him up for an interview. But should we...