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November 21, 2024 | Dmitriy Shapiro |

Eyeing Turkey, Greece Seeks Deal With Israel to Develop Iron Dome-like Air Defenses

Israeli military technology has showcased its effectiveness during more than a year of conflict, and other countries have taken notice. On November 14, Greek officials revealed that Athens was seeking...

August 26, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Jason Jay Smart

Athens Declaration Unites Southern Europe Behind Ukraine

President Zelensky's trip to Athens this week proved to be pivotal in advancing Ukraine's longtime objectives of moving towards EU membership.

March 31, 2023 | |

Iranian Military Adviser Killed in Israeli Strike in Syria

Latest Developments An Israeli missile strike killed an adviser from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Damascus on Friday, Tehran said. Iranian state media, in a departure from...

March 28, 2023 | |

Iran-Backed Athens Attack Foiled With Mossad Help

Latest Developments With the help of the Mossad, Greek authorities have foiled an Iranian-backed terrorist attack on Jews and Israelis in Athens, officials said on Tuesday. Two Pakistani nationals are...

August 23, 2022 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Washington wins as Turkey and Israel restore normal ties

Last week, Turkey and Israel announced that they would normalize their diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors and consuls for the first time since 2018. The announcement follows a series of recent...

June 15, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

How international law dies

It’s flouted by despots and weaponized against small nations

November 3, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Jacob Nagel, Ryan Brobst

Blue Flag exercise has Israel’s enemies seeing red

Israel flexed its military and political muscle last month, hosting its largest and most advanced air force exercise ever. The Blue Flag 2021 exercise included dozens of fighter aircraft from at least eight...

October 26, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Aykan Erdemir

Erdogan’s Belligerence Has U.S., Greece Expanding Ties

Growing military cooperation offers Washington a hedge against Ankara and Moscow.

July 28, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s Provocations in Cyprus Escalate Tensions in Eastern Mediterranean

During a two-day visit to Northern Cyprus last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalated tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean by threatening unilateral action, including an indirect land grab,...

September 30, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

‘Blue Homeland’ And The Irredentist Future Of Turkish Foreign Policy

Turkey and Greece, two NATO allies, nearly experienced a full-fledged military conflict in August. Two of their warships collided during a naval standoff over hydrocarbon exploration in the Eastern...

December 10, 2019 | Aykan Erdemir, Brenna Knippen

Turkey-Libya Maritime Border Deal Escalates Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean

Turkey signed an agreement with Libya on November 27 in an attempt to redraw maritime boundaries in the volatile eastern Mediterranean. Signed just ahead of last week’s tense NATO summit in London, the...

October 30, 2019 | Samantha Ravich, Annie Fixler

The Economic Dimension of Great-Power Competition and the Role of Cyber as a Key Strategic Weapon

Excerpt Napoleon Bonaparte may have said that an army marches on its stomach, but it is perhaps even truer that a military force marches, sails, flies, and attacks on the back of its nation’s economy....

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

December 16, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

One way to push back in Syria? Target Iranian airlines.

Iran's commercial fleet is helping the Bashar Assad regime and its allies commit vast-scale atrocities in Syria. The Obama administration should have punished Tehran's war crim...

January 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Greek- Israel Tango: 2015 a Good Year

Two key events over the last month marked the complex tango between Greece and Israel. First, the step forward: Greece’s foreign minister Nikos Kotzias announced in a letter to Israel&rsquo...

November 16, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Why Isn’t the Obama Administration Going After Iran’s Mahan Air?

In theory, Iran's Mahan Air is a private commercial airliner that operates dozens of daily passenger flights to domestic and ...

June 19, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal Foreign Policy

Drachmail and the New Democrats

Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?

January 11, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Rationale

Is Iran rational? That’s the key question policy-makers and experts have been asking for at least the last decade as Iran has gotten closer to bringing its nuclear-weapons program on line....

August 1, 2006 | The New English Review |

Stephen Breyer, the Court’s Necromancer

Authored by Alykhan Velshi Originalism is the house judicial philosophy of conservatism. It maintains that the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, that this meaning i...

December 21, 2005 |

Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates

By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...