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.
International Herald Tribune
Understanding the US Designation of the Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organisation
Last week US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the Treasury Department will designate the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organisation...
Memos
Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Lebanon Loses a Pillar of Independent Journalism
The Daily Star’s demise is the story of Lebanon, reduced from promising country to failed state.
Op-eds
Maximum Pressure 2.0
A Plan for North Korea
Monographs
Europe Has Billions of Reasons to Let Iran Cheat
Europe’s rapidly expanding economic relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran prompted Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to call for a unified trans-Atlantic approach to enforcement of the...
Op-eds
Analysis: Why Europe is Not Likely to Enforce Iran Deal
With the reopening of the UK’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday, a new wrench has been tossed into the nuclear deal approval process: Britain’s likely reluctance to enforce violations.&nbs...
Op-eds
Israel and the War of Words
JERUSALEM – Last week, a terrorist drove his car into a crowd at a light rail station, killing a three-month-old baby. Eight others were injured, including a 22-year-old woman who died a fe...
Op-eds
Radioactive Regime
The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...
Op-eds
Sweden’s Israeli Flag Burning and its Flirt with the Iran-Syria Complex
The burning of an Israeli flag in the heart of Stockholm’s bustling downtown shopping district this week coincided neatly with Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt’s efforts to placa...
Op-eds
Can EU Oil Sanctions Create a Turning Point in Iran?
The significance of international sanctions on Iran took on new prominence this week, after a group of US senators sent a letter on Tuesday to Catherine Ashton, the EU's c...
Op-eds
Coal in Israel’s stocking
'Tis the season for blame-Israel-first stories.
Op-eds
Would a President McCain Have Invaded Iraq?
A doubter's analysis.
Op-eds
Making Sense of France’s Burqa Ban
Berlin — France’s burqa ban became law on Monday, and the full-face veil worn by an estimated 2,000 women in France is now outlawed in public spaces. With this law, Pres. Nicolas Sark...
Op-eds
Why is Germany Playing Down Radical Islam?
On the cover of Monday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune, the headline was, “Germany is annoyed by U.S. terror alert.”The thrust of the report is that Germany has go...
Op-eds
Stop the Bomb Protests Iranian ‘Terror Bank’
BERLIN – The European-based Stop the Bomb coalition demonstrated in front of the European-Iranian Trade Bank headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday and called for the closure of EIH because it...
Op-eds
Why is Merkel Protecting Iran’s Terror Bank?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to honor today in the city of Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, the Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad a...
Op-eds
Despite US Pressure, Merkel Unlikely to Close Iran Bank
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains unlikely to order the closure of the Hamburg-based Iranian bank (EIH), which has reportedly funneled over $1 billion into Iran's military and ball...
Op-eds
The Chinese Navy’s Somali Cruise
by Dr. Peter Pham Since the beginning of January, three vessels of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - the Guangzhou-class destroyer Wuhan...
Op-eds
Iran’s Power At The United Nations
With Iran racing down the homestretch toward a nuclear bomb, the United Nations Security Council has spent more than two years expressing "serious concern." By now, Iran is under U.N. sanctions,...