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Imagine two Middle Eastern countries. The first is very unlike the rest of the region. It is economically highly productive, with a GDP per capita of...
After years of condemnations, sanctions, and small-scale attacks, in late February, the United States and Israel finally launched a large-scale war on...
How America Can Take Advantage of the Status Quo
There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes from watching a diplomatic scenario you spent decades trying to prevent materialize in real time. For...
And Why It Augurs a More Dangerous World
In the weeks since the United States and Israel launched their war on Iran, the Middle East has witnessed a dramatic and unprecedented escalation by...
The decision U.S. President Donald Trump made to attack Iran was a high-stakes gamble. The gamble is not really in the military campaign itself, which...
Both Sides Will Struggle to Reintegrate Millions of Veterans
Since the end of World War II, the countries of western Europe have relied on the United States for their security. Thus safeguarded, these countries...
Tehran Will Now Set the Terms for Peace
Four years ago in Foreign Affairs, I argued that the demand that corporations adopt voluntary standards for environmental, social, and governance was...
Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, committing...
And What Others Can Learn From Japan’s Embrace of American Power
Over the last ten weeks, analysts have debated whether the United States was justified in extracting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from...
On a normal day, 20 percent of global oil supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway opposite Iran’s southern coast. Over the...
How America and Israel Solved Iran’s Succession Problem
How a Wounded Islamic Republic Can Still Threaten the World
And Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for It
In September 2025, the U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that Chinese cyber operators had used its models to target around 30...
When the United States launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, it marked the combat debut of the U.S. military’s newest drone, the...
In Iran, Trump Risks Falling Into a Familiar Trap
The global economy is under a cloud of uncertainty. Trade disruptions, wars, aid retrenchment, and geopolitical realignment have forced governments...
The relationship between governments and business is fundamentally changing. As geopolitical tensions have increased and economic warfare has become...
Trump Needs to Figure Out What He Wants—and Quickly
As the United States and Israel bombard Iran, its “axis of resistance” is getting involved in what is now a regional war. The first members to act...
In a world of intensifying great-power competition and geopolitical uncertainty, it is tempting to interpret the Trump administration’s recent...
America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew
The False Promise of Total Victory
At the end of this month, U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit China for a major summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the first of what...
War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants
“Cuba is ready to fall,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in early January, a day after U.S. special forces captured the Venezuelan...
China is watching carefully as the United States and Israel bombard Iran. Beijing is, after all, Tehran’s most important partner. The two countries...
America Needs a Plan for Tehran’s Nuclear Program
The United States and Israel may have different names for their latest military campaigns in Iran—Epic Fury and Rising Lion—but there is nothing...
India has endured a perplexing year in its diplomacy. After decades of growing closer to Washington, New Delhi saw its strategic calculus scrambled by...
Iran’s Favorite Proxy Is Not What It Once Was
How Constraints on the U.S. President’s War-Making Authority Eroded—and How to Restore Them
Just days after clerics in Iran celebrated the 47th anniversary of the revolution that brought them to power, the United States and Israel...
In a time of global instability and intensifying geopolitical rivalries, the responsibility for sustaining peace does not lie with great powers alone....
Just days after clerics in Iran celebrated the 47th anniversary of the revolution that brought them to power, the United States and Israel...
How Constraints on the U.S. President’s War-Making Authority Eroded—and How to Restore Them
Iran, Venezuela, and the End of the Powell Doctrine
At China’s Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops or rolling tanks that made headlines, but the next-generation...
At China’s Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops or rolling tanks that made headlines, but the next-generation...
Iran, Venezuela, and the End of the Powell Doctrine
How the Latest Strikes Risk Opening a Pandora’s Box in the Gulf
The U.S. Military Must Go Big—and Then Let Iranians Do the Rest
When U.S. President Donald Trump visited Israel in October 2025, he was greeted by the Israeli public and the country’s political leaders as a...
How Beijing Turns Predictability Into Power
In February 2025, when U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,...
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