Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook
Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The United States is on track to be the next target this November. A troveof...
Central Europe
Russia’s AI Blueprint Exposes an Authoritarian Playbook
Russia, China, and Iran are all sharing the same playbook for corrupting Western elections. The U.S. is on track to be the next target this November. A trove of Russian documents leaked in...
Insights
The U.S. Should Take a Page From Europe’s New Russia Sanctions Playbook
The European Union is stepping up enforcement against Russian sanctions evasion. Brussels has now implemented its largest set of designations against Moscow in two years, targeting the Kremlin’s enablers...
Policy Briefs
Americans shouldn’t cry for Orban
Never ignore the voters. After 16 years in power, Hungary’s corpulent Prime Minister Viktor Orban lost touch with the conservative base that supported him from the start, believing...
Op-eds
Trump Must Hold The Line On The Cuba Oil Embargo
No activists, no influencers, no negotiation.
Op-eds
Northern exposure
The Alaska summit revealed Putin’s neo-Soviet goals
Op-eds
Replacing America
China’s Communists rulers intend to establish a new world order
Op-eds
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.
Memos
Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations
Memos
Germany must implement its ban of Hezbollah terror activities
To great fanfare, Berlin announced in April 2020 that it outlawed all activities of the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah within the territory of the Federal Republic. However, the ban remains a...
Op-eds
Taking the War to the BDS Activists
Israel is in a war against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that includes using preemptive measures to curb the potential impact on the Jewish state, Strategic Affairs Minister Gila...
Op-eds
Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...
Op-eds
The New Axis of Evil
Do you remember the Axis of Evil? It was one of the major themes of President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech in 2002, 4 months after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Unite...
Op-eds
Don’t Call Obama’s Iran Diplomacy ‘Reaganesque’
Brent Scowcroft’s Aug. 23 op-ed, “An...
Op-eds
Iran Extension Foreshadows a Bad Nuclear Deal
The deadline for a nuclear deal came and went Monday with no agreement - just a seven-month extension of the interim agreement. Public comments by Western and Iranian officials, as well as media...
Op-eds
Austria Aggressively Moves to Boost Trade with Iran
Austria’s ambassador to Tehran, and the vice president of the country’s chamber of commerce, have expressed sharp criticism of tough sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear program....
Op-eds
‘Austria Committed to Implementing Iran Sanctions’
Austria’s Foreign Ministry flatly rejected on Monday accusations by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which asserted over the weekend that Vienna is a major hub for Iranian money-laundering, in...
Op-eds
Germany Starts to Clamp Down on Salafists
BERLIN, Germany - Last week the German interior ministry stepped up its efforts against a growing Salafist network in the Federal Republic, stating that "[t]he organization acts in opposition to...
Op-eds
The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab
Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially r...
Op-eds
Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding
Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem. He is marrying Nata...