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Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late April

Late April Trends

Biden and Obama Previously Defended Non-Nuclear Sanctions on Iran

The Biden Administration’s Time for Choosing On Iran

Vienna is bustling with another round of diplomacy on the Iran nuclear file. Unlike the direct talks that resulted in the flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...

Biden’s bad deals

His diplomats, like Obama’s, give without getting

Why Assad crossed Obama’s red line

He calculated, correctly, that he could commit war crimes with impunity

Good Climate Policy Should Fight Corruption and Organized Crime

They are key drivers of deforestation and environmental degradation.

Joe Biden Shouldn’t Return to the Iran Deal

But he probably will anyway.

Al Qaeda leader threatens Myanmar in new video

Al Qaeda’s main propaganda arm, As Sahab, has released a new video titled, “The Wound of the Rohingya is the Wound of the Ummah.” The 21-minute propaganda film features undated audio clips of Ayman...

What Red Line Tells Us About Syria’s Chemical Weapons

Book review: Joby Warrick’s book brings to life the history and reaction to Syria’s chemical weapons program and the difficulty in eliminating it.

Biden Can’t Bring Peace to Yemen While Iran Keeps Sending Weapons

The latest round of U.S. diplomacy will fail without additional leverage.

Why “Anything But Trump” Should Not Be Biden’s Foreign Policy Mantra

Trump made many errors, but there are some policies that are worth building upon.

Reading foreign policy tea leaves

Actually, we can’t predict what presidential advisors will advise

A separate peace in the Middle East

How it was achieved and what the “Palestinian cause” now requires

Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo

Regime change in Iran is one of the biggest taboos in U.S. foreign policy. Bring it up and you will be scorned as a warmonger, a fomenter of chaos. Yet we have encouraged and welcomed the collapse of dictatorships...

Obama Officials Support U.S. Unilateral Snapback of Iran Sanctions

When Iran and world powers concluded the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), President Barack Obama and senior officials in his administration repeatedly...

State Department Report Highlights World’s Deadliest Weapons

Potential nuclear tests in China, a whole list of problems with Russia, and let's not forget North Korea and Iran.

Iran vs. Trump: Suleimani’s Legacy, and Khamenei’s Ambitions

The supreme leader and Trump may well end the long-running, region-defining clash. We just don't know yet quite how.

Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test

Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...

The return of the Monroe Doctrine

Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader

Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration