Can US Engagement Rescue the United Nations From Irrelevance?
The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.
El Salvador
Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones
Memos
US Should Sanction Lebanon’s pro-Iran ‘Resistance TV’
On December 27, an Israeli missile hit a home in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, killing brothers Ali and Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim’s wife. Within hours, Al Manar, Hezbollah’s official media...
Op-eds
Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s network in Colombia, but what took so long?
The Biden administration wants to create the impression it is finally getting tough on Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group and Iranian proxy. The Treasury Department’s sanctions last...
Op-eds
America Needs to Leverage its Power to Stabilize Latin America and Stop Chinese Influence in the Region
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could count on and leverage the primacy of U.S. global leadership and economic influence to address a range of foreign threats...
Op-eds
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.
Op-eds
Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel
For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel. “This is a government that’s...
Op-eds
Upcoming Paraguayan Election a Bellwether for Taiwan’s International Standing
The outcome of this month’s hotly contested Paraguayan election will likely determine whether Asuncion maintains diplomatic relations with Taipei or switches recognition to Beijing, a move that would...
Policy Briefs
COVID-19 in Latin America: Organized Crime Gains and States Weaken
COVID-19 cases in Latin America are surging as the region heads into the Southern Hemisphere winter. Across the region, the pandemic has created opportunities for organized crime to step into the void left...
Policy Briefs
Terrorists, Insurgents, Something Else? Clarifying and Classifying the “Generational Challenge”
Co-written by Jacob Zenn. The Trump administration’s ...
Op-eds
The Death Of Dewey Clarridge
In the summer of 1981, I was Special Advisor to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and he asked me to try to find out what the CIA was up to in Salvador and Nicaragua. “I’m afra...
Op-eds
2 Uighur Gitmo Detainees Transferred to El Salvador
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to El Salvador yesterday. The t...
Op-eds
Selective Reporting on Guantanamo Transfers
The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that two Guantanamo detainees had been transferred to El...
Op-eds
Speechless in a Noisy World
The Austrian Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud argued that language is non-existent in dreams. In short, according to Freud’s theory, symbols saturate the unconscious dream world and serve...
Op-eds
Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
Op-eds
The Senate and the No-Fly Zone: The Legend Begins
Out of extremely thin air, the Obama administration is now conjuring the narrative that Congress actually did approve a Libyan no-fly zone before President Barack Obama signed onto the project wi...
Op-eds
An Actor-centric Theory of War
The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, is reassessing its approach to war. With America entering the 10th year of what was originally called the global war on terror, the Natio...
Op-eds
Biden’s Baggage
Tiny Delaware barely registers in the Electoral College, but Barack Obama selected Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state’s senior senator, as his running mate. There’s one explanation: forei...
Op-eds
Terrorists Here, Terrorists There, Terrorists Everywhere
But for heaven’s sake, don’t call them terrorists, don’t send our armies against them (although special forces are ok), and don’t even think about declaring “war&rdq...
Op-eds
Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace
By: Newt Gingrich. Many observers hold that the death of former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the subsequent election of Mahmoud Abbas to lead the Palestinian Authority ha...