Foreign policy

February 12, 2025 | Bradley Bowman |

The Trump Administration Acts to Arm Israel and Signals Desire to Reform U.S. Security Assistance

The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Friday that it plans to sell Israel over $8 billion in weapons, advancing sales that the Biden administration slow-rolled for months. The Trump administration’s...

February 10, 2025 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense

President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...

December 20, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey’s Overreach in Syria: Erdogan Is ‘Playing with Fire’

In a recent Foreign Policy article, Steven Cook and I highlighted how Turkey may be overplaying its hand in Syria. With events evolving rapidly, it seems that Turkish President Recep...

December 9, 2024 | Steven A. Cook, Sinan Ciddi

Erdogan Gets His ‘Leader of the Muslim World’ Moment

Syria's change of leadership has given Turkey’s president the regional influence he has always wanted.

June 26, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Would Trump re-establish peace through strength?

As should be clear by now, the alternative is war through weakness

April 18, 2024 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Janatan Sayeh

U.S. Presidential Elections Loom Over the Iranian Rial

Tehran’s inflation troubles present a critical vulnerability for the clerical regime.

April 4, 2024 | Steven A. Cook, Sinan Ciddi

Post-Erdogan Turkey Is Finally Here

Last weekend’s elections offer a first glimpse of a political future beyond the reigning strongman.

August 17, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Will Abbas be the final Palestinian president?

Hussein Al Sheikh may be the PA’s number two now, but it’s far from certain he can withstand the inevitable challenges that will confront his succession.

June 6, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia’s Other Propaganda War

It’s not all about elections. Putin also tries to destabilize Western democracies by stoking culture wars.

March 20, 2023 | Ashley Mattheis, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Varsha Koduvayur, Cody Wilson

Blind Sided

A Reconceptualization of the Role of Emerging Technologies in Shaping Information Operations in the Gray Zone

October 27, 2022 | Bradley Bowman |

What’s Behind Israel’s Reluctance to Share Iron Dome With Ukraine?

Citing Russia’s increasing use of Iranian-made drones to conduct attacks in Ukraine, Kyiv asked Israel last week to provide its highly-effective Iron Dome missile defense system (among other...

August 31, 2022 | Ryan Brobst, John Hardie, Bradley Bowman

Why Washington should provide ATACMS weapons to Ukraine

The Ukrainian military announced the beginning of a much-anticipated counteroffensive on Monday, aiming to retake territory in the country’s south. Western weapons, which have helped Ukraine strike...

April 22, 2022 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

Energy in Conflict: The Case of the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan War

Excerpt With the rise in frequency of hybrid warfare, combatants in various conflicts are increasingly targeting domestic energy infrastructure and energy supply flows.1 In conventional warfare, militaries...

January 18, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

How Israel Should Handle the US-China Rivalry

Israel recently pledged that it will notify Washington about certain deals it strikes with China, and promised to reexamine those deals if the US raises concerns. The announcement came amid a campaign,...

November 16, 2021 | Graham Kennis, Laura Bate, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Agile Multilateralism Is Needed to Address Cybercrime Safe Havens

With the Treasury Department’s announcement of sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange SUEX and the 30-nation summit led by the White House, the past few weeks have served as a reminder that in...

May 10, 2021 | Michael Doran, Tony Badran

The Realignment

On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

October 1, 2019 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Paraguay and the Friends We Keep

Last week, Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez Moreno visited Washington for three days. Velazquez has been accused of being one of Paraguay’s more corrupt politicians. So why did the United States...

June 14, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy: Why We Need a Transatlantic Response

An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey on espionage and terrorism charges will appear before a Turkish court on July 18th, ten days after the country’s second round of presidential electio...

November 29, 2017 | John Hannah

Two Cheers for Rex

I rarely find myself thinking along similar lines as fellow Foreign Policy contributor Stephen Walt. Nevertheless, just as I was contemplating an article that would take note of a few o...

September 7, 2017 |

Evaluating Sanctions Enforcement and Policy Options on North Korea

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