Central America

April 12, 2024 | |

Germany Rejects Nicaragua’s ‘Biased’ ICJ Case

Germany roundly rejected Nicaragua’s accusation that it was facilitating Israel’s purported genocide in Gaza at an April 9 hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)....

December 29, 2023 | Bill Roggio, Caleb Weiss

New Jersey man arrested for attempting to join Shabaab, inspired by support of Hamas

The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested an American citizen living in Egypt, who traveled to Kenya to join Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, in the wake of Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 terror...

June 30, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Washington Needs a New Economic Security Framework for the Americas

Washington must bring powerful answers to pressing issues in the region: populism, political unrest, and disinformation; water and food insecurity; extreme weather; mass migration; the evolving drug trade; money laundering and corruption; and weakened democratic institutions.

April 19, 2023 | |

Justice Department Indicts Sanctioned Hezbollah Financier

Latest Developments The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Hezbollah financier Nazem Said Ahmad and eight associates on April 18 for their alleged role in fraudulent transactions — many in the United...

June 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Underwriting Hezbollah Inc.

By funding the failed Lebanese state and lifting sanctions on Iran, the United States is partnering with the world’s deadliest crime syndicate

October 16, 2018 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Department of Justice right to go after Hezbollah

An excerpt from the op-ed Attorney General ...

June 7, 2017 | David Asher

Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options

Download the full testimony here.  I...

June 8, 2016 | Michael Braun

The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America

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December 11, 2015 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

How Iran’s Mafia-Like Revolutionary Guard Rules The Country’s Black Market

The revolutionary children of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the Pasdaran, were the poor, marginalized thugs of the Shah's era, people with a huge appetite for violence. They founded the Islamic Re...

August 26, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

The Road to Damascus Starts in Tehran

It’s Middle East Groundhog Day all over again.  The discussion of What To Do About Syria is a replay of What To Do About Saddam:  it’s all about the wrong war in the wrong p...

August 9, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War

It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.

August 9, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Jeane Kirkpatrick’s War

It was against totalitarianism. And it’s far from over.

June 13, 2011 | National Interest Online |

UN-Real Assembly

 As the contributors to The National Interest symposium in the current issue note, there is an emergent consensus among foreign policy analysts of all political persuasions that “going...

June 13, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

After Fidel

With Castro fading fast, it's time to rethink U.S. policy toward the Cuban regime and give hope to a beleaguered people.

June 10, 2011 |

Top Democrats Spout Nonsense on Intelligence Reform

Fear is not caused by administration rhetoric; we are genuinely less safe.

May 16, 2011 |

Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet

 The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...

October 6, 2008 | National Intrest Online

Strait Talk About the Arms Sale

By Dr. J. Last Friday, the United States government gave the go-ahead to a long-delayed arms sale to Taiwan. The $6.5 billion defense package announced by the Defense Security Cooperatio...

September 24, 2007 |

UN-Real Assembly


As the contributors to The National Interest symposium in the current issue note, there is an emergent consensus among foreign policy analysts of all political persuasions that “going it alone” interventionism is no longer a viable option for the United States, if it ever was before. Two general solutions are now frequently bandied about in Washington policy circles and both are flawed. The first is the creation, advocated Ivo Daalder, Robert Kagan, G. John Ikenberry and others of a “concert of democracies” to “legitimately” bypass gridlock in the United Nations Security Council. The second is the opening à la Baker-Hamilton of diplomatic dialogue with the rulers of regional spoilers like Iran and Syria. Both address some of the weaknesses with the current modus operandi, but they fail to grapple with the fundamental defect of the contemporary international system: its dogmatic adherence to a post-Westphalia formal equality of states and consequent lack of a forum reflecting the realities of global power.

February 6, 2007 | |

At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong

Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacek...

December 11, 2006 | |

Iron Lady: Remembering Jeane Kirkpatrick

It’s easy to forget how grim a scene confronted America when Jeane Kirkpatrick in November, 1979, published her famous essay in Commentary Magazine, on "Dictatorships and Double Standards."...