Some Thoughts on ‘A Foreign Policy for the Middle-Class’
Orbis issue revisited: Spring 2021 (65:2), “Challenges Facing the Biden Administration” After serving as a diplomat for thirty years...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Some Thoughts on ‘A Foreign Policy for the Middle-Class’
A nation must think before it acts.
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Neither Peace nor Prosperity: Jared Kushner’s Middle East Peace Plan Falls Flat in Bahrain
As navy patrol ships circled the Four Seasons Hotel in Bahrain Bay, Manama, a group of finance ministers and...
Discussing NATO’s 70th Anniversary in Tallinn and its Future in Riga
Every autumn, the Baltics host two significant conferences on defense and security: the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD)...
The Need for a Grand Plan in Gaza
Over the past few weeks, media attention in Israel was mainly focused on developments on the northern front, such...
Sanctioning Iran, Developing Relations with India, and the New Economic Order
On May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan...
The Koreas Move Forward, with the U.S. Left Behind
Over the past few weeks, North Korean media hasn’t been shy in signaling that it wants South Korea to...
The End of a “Strategic” Relationship? How American-Turkish Relations Hit Historic Lows
The onset of fall finds American-Turkish relations undergoing the most severe crisis in their history. In August, the Trump...
Showing the Dragon’s Teeth: China’s Warnings over the South China Sea
On August 31, the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship Albion exercised its freedom of navigation rights by sailing past...
Hopes, Dreams, and Wedges in Korea
Descriptions of globalization quickly turn into clichés. But one of the most palpable features is that news travels across...
The Risk to American Intelligence Operations: Devin Nunes and the False Carter Page Narrative
Since I first discussed the Carter Page FISA Applications in February, the partisanship that initially spawned the...