Engines of Influence
Turkey’s Defense Industry Under Erdogan
Islamabad
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February
Policy Tracker
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January
Policy Tracker
The Lasting Legacy of A.Q. Khan
His network sold substantial nuclear equipment and assistance to Iran, Libya, and North Korea and contributed to lasting security crises.
Op-eds
Unfriending Pakistan
A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue
Op-eds
Curb Your Enthusiasm for an Israel-Pakistan Peace Agreement
While Pakistan has good reasons to normalize relations with Israel, domestic and geopolitical compulsions stand in the way.
Op-eds
Secret Sites in the Desert: The Dangers of Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Hedging
If Washington fails to convince Riyadh, a regional partner, not to opt for domestic enrichment, then it will face greater hurdles getting Iran to accept limits on its own program.
Op-eds
China Buys Turkey’s Silence on Uyghur Oppression
Turkey has joined the list of majority Muslim countries that have opted for silence in dealing with the one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time.
Op-eds
China versus the world
While America staggers from coronavirus lockdown to riot curfew, China is pushing out at sea, on its borders, in its legal claims, and in the global economy. America and its allies have begun to realize...
Op-eds
US-India helicopter deal deepens vital partnership
Due to American and Indian negotiators’ failure to reach a trade agreement, some media reports panned President Donald Trump’s visit last week to India as more show than substance. Yet a closer look...
Op-eds
Occupied Elsewhere
Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes
Monographs
Female Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber hits hospital
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for today’s suicide attack that targeted a hospital in the northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan that killed eight people. The Taliban has...
Op-eds
Badness personified
Jalaluddin Haqqani is dead. The terror network he created lives on.
Op-eds
In Turkey and Pakistan, discouraging elections
Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. That tu...
Op-eds
Is Trump Ready to Dump Pakistan?
As U.S. ambassador to Pakistan more than a decade ago, Ryan Crocker spent much of his time trying to convince the government in Islamabad to take action against militants moving freely inside the...
Op-eds
Escalating Tensions Between U.S., Pakistan Risk Key Counterterrorism Alliance
Pakistan has said it is no longer allied with the United States after the Trump administration severed security-related aid to Islamabad over charges that the country is harboring militants, sign...
Op-eds
Experts Debate If Suspension of Aid to Pakistan Will Be Effective
After the Trump administration announced the suspension of up to $2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan last week over charges that the country harbors terrorists, experts are now debating whether th...
Op-eds
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy Could Actually Work
While I support President Donald Trump’s de...
Op-eds
Report: Pakistani officials deny al Qaeda’s hostage exchange story
On Sept. 2, The Long War Journal reported on a ...
Op-eds
What it’s like to be a Muslim in the CIA
It was the day after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. I was working as a CIA analyst. I sat in a room with the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, along with several other a...