An Emergent US-Favored Regional Order in the Middle East and its Challenges
In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza and...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
An Emergent US-Favored Regional Order in the Middle East and its Challenges
A nation must think before it acts.
Syria
Post-Assad Syria: Challenges, Opportunities, and the US Role in Shaping its Future
The unexpected fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following...
What’s Next for Syria, the Region, and the World?
Philip Wasielewski Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power has ended the Baath Party’s and Assad dynasty’s long rule over Syria....
US Policy in Northeast Syria: Toward a Strategic Reconfiguration
Amid escalating regional tensions since October 7 last year and reports of American contemplations of troop withdrawal from Syria,...
NATO Needs to Get Serious at Seventy-Five
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently arrived in Washington seeking to persuade the White House and Congress to successfully...
Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2024?
Editor’s Note: This article is the sixth annual “Trends in Terrorism” essay from global counterterrorism expert and FPRI non-resident...
The End of De-Escalation in the Middle East?
The Hamas incursion from Gaza into Israel and the subsequent attack on Israel’s Southern District that began on October...
Peshmerga Reforms: Navigating Challenges, Forging Unity
The Peshmerga—“those willing to face death”—a term resonating with Kurdish valor, traces its origins to the twentieth-century struggle for...
Biden’s Bombs: The Dance of Ethics and Interests
On July 7, 2023, at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky, operators carefully placed an M55 rocket filled...
Wagner Group Licks its Wounds in Belarus
Most analysts have labeled Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted rebellion and the Wagner Group mutiny a failure. And in many ways,...