American Foreign Policy Council

January 8, 2023 | Cleo Paskal |

The State of US’ India policy

The United States sends mixed messages to India.On the one hand, Washington highlighted the importance of India’s rise and leadership in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, designated India a Major Defense Partner,...

December 24, 2022 | Ivana Stradner |

The Real Architects of “Russophobia”

How Russia continues to use the idea of "Russophobia" as a political weapon.

March 23, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

The death of MAD

And the urgent need to reestablish deterrence

December 17, 2021 | Alexander B. Gray, Cleo Paskal

The Solomon Islands Crisis Shows America Needs a New Pacific Strategy

The U.S. has been largely subcontracting its foreign policy for many Pacific Islands to Australia and New Zealand. That needs to change.

July 1, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell

US International Religious Freedom Efforts Should Not Promote Islamic Extremism

The Trump Administration has elevated the promotion of international religious freedom to a major component of U.S. foreign policy. President Donald Trump issued an executive order devoting additional...

March 4, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Svante Cornell, Jonathan Schanzer

The UN’s Selective Outrage on Occupied Territories

Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the...

February 27, 2020 | Svante Cornell, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

The United States Needs to Declare War on Proxies

The most important takeaway from the killing of Qassem Suleimani doesn’t just have to do with Iran.

January 29, 2020 | |

New FDD Report Explores Policies Toward Occupied and Disputed Territories

“Occupied Elsewhere: Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes”

December 24, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Erdogan’s Anti-Semitism Will Sink Turkey’s Economy

The Turkish president’s racist conspiracy theories are a threat to economic stability.

March 22, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s pivot to North Korea

America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president — any American president — needs t...

October 17, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer

In the long term, China is not alliance material for Israel

Israel's leaders are not particularly fond of multilateral initiatives. The ones coming out of the United Nations are notorious for one-sided measures that single out Israel, and ev...

October 5, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Potential of a Chinese Terror Threat

Eighteen billion dollars in new contracts were signed during the fifth China-Eurasia Exp...

October 27, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer, Samantha Ravich

The Iran Deal: Persisting Problems

National Review Online

February 9, 2015 | Tony Badran |

FDD Research Fellow to Testify Before Congress Wednesday on the Iranian Threat

WASHINGTON- Tony Badran, research fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Wednesday on “Sta...

April 2, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

How the U.S. Put Latin America Up for Grabs

TAMARINDO, COSTA RICA – I’m not about to pretend that spending a few days in this rather funky little surfing village on the Pacific has given me great insights into Latin America&rsq...

December 12, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

The Missile Defense Answer to Iran

Co-authored by Ilan Berman As the past three years have shown, President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, don't often see eye-to-eye on foreign policy. On...

August 25, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Among the Believers

Almost a decade after 9/11/01, we should better understand the varieties of Islamist experience.

January 31, 2011 | RealClear Politics.com

Steel Deal Reveals Pawlenty’s Priorities on Security, Jobs

If former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty decides, as expected, to run for president in 2012, he likely will talk about a unique national security qualification from 2007 in which he nudged an Indian c...

August 5, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Sanctions Plus?

Suppose the tough, new sanctions passed into law by the U.S., the E.U., Canada, and Australia do not cause Iran’s Islamist rulers to halt their illicit development of nuclear weapons, curb...

July 26, 2010 |

Can EU Sanctions Stop Iran?

The European Union announced today the imposition of tough sanctions targeting Iran’s energy, shipping, insurance, and financial sectors. After seven years of delay negotiating tactics by t...