The Urgent Need for UN Reform
The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.
Brexit
The Sanctioned Cabinet of Ebrahim Raisi
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Biden Brags About Diplomacy. It’s All Spin.
If an ally recalls its ambassador, it’s a sign of an epic blunder.
Op-eds
Europe
New U.K. Sanctions Offer Opportunity to Narrow Transatlantic Gap on Iran
One small step for British sovereignty is amounting to one large leap for economic statecraft. In a historic, but underreported move this summer, the U.K. government issued its first tranche of penalties...
Op-eds
The U.K. Has Its Own Russia Problem
A new report highlights various schemes by Vladimir Putin.
Op-eds
China versus the world
While America staggers from coronavirus lockdown to riot curfew, China is pushing out at sea, on its borders, in its legal claims, and in the global economy. America and its allies have begun to realize...
Op-eds
The EU Foreign Policy Chief’s Mission Impossible in Tehran
The new EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, traveled to Tehran this week to salvage the almost-dead Iran nuclear deal. Borell’s mission had little hope of success, however, since the European Union...
Policy Briefs
Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
Op-eds
Trump’s Iran Policy Hasn’t Failed—Yet
Maximum pressure could still deliver strategic outcomes.
Op-eds
The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...
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The age of neo-imperialism
Former empires that aspire to be future empires threaten America
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Why is Germany Silent on Corbyn’s Praise of Munich Terrorists?
The barn-burning revelations in the British newspaper Daily Mail in August that ...
Op-eds
Europe’s Silence
It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....
Op-eds
Analysis: Can the EU breathe a deep sigh of relief?
The defeat of the far-right politician Norbert Hofer in Austria’s presidential election on Sunday conjures up the writings of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830- 1916), who quipped about her...
Op-eds
The “ideals of 1776”
Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...
Op-eds
Expect Political Turmoil in the Year Ahead
“Trump, Brexit, Migration: Is the world on fire?” This was the topical question explored by five panellists last month at a Toronto event sponsored by three organizations: th...
Op-eds
America’s News HQ
Chairman of FDD's Leadership Council Jim Woolsey comments on Brexit. ...
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Rule Britannia
Whether you think the United Kingdom exiting the European Union is cause for alarm or celebration, you have to concede this: Britons engaged in an open, lively and mostly peaceful debate, they tu...
Op-eds
Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt
I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain; when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included. We...