“What is the purpose of the U.N.?”
President Trump poses an essential question
League of Nations
Syrian Druze are not entitled to self-determination, and Kurds cannot yet pursue secession
Syria is a patchwork of identities, par for the course in a region where novel nationalities vie with tribe and religion for the citizenry’s loyalty. For most of the country’s history, the Assad family...
Op-eds
Crossroads of Competition
China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Legislative Testimonies
Deconstructing the Inauguration: No, not that one
We have a country that is geopolitically sophisticated, with close ties to the U.S., Japan and Taiwan, and is in a highly strategic location. So who showed up to Palau’s party, and who didn’t?
Op-eds
Israel’s Gift
Lebanese patriots now have a chance to throw off Tehran’s yoke
Op-eds
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.
Memos
Don’t know much about Middle Eastern history
The appalling ignorance of Hamas supporters
Op-eds
Northern Mariana: Time to close China’s backdoor into the U.S.
‘The Northern Marianas economy continues to struggle, and the government remains in deep fiscal distress. These are conditions that make the commonwealth acutely vulnerable to CCP exploitation’.
Op-eds
Preserving U.S. Interests in the Indo-Pacific
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Legislative Testimonies
Putin Is Making a Mockery of the United Nations
The Biden administration must finally recognize what engagement at the U.N. can and cannot do.
Op-eds
The authoritarian conquest of the UN
Accommodation and engagement are no solution
Op-eds
“Endless Wars” and the Danger of Ignoring History
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
George Will and American power
How his conservative sensibility informs his approach to foreign policy
Op-eds
The 100-year-old promise
In theory, who doesn’t believe in self-determination, the idea, developed in the 19th century, that all nations have a right to sovereignty? By the early 20th century,...
Op-eds
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
Tracking freedom’s enemies
If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is...
Op-eds
Cutthroats of the Holy Land
Over the years, Israelis have had to defend themselves from foreign armies, suicide bombers and missiles. Over recent weeks, they’ve been confronting a new threat: young Palestinians wieldi...
Op-eds
Jesus of Palestine?
The members of the American Studies Association care deeply about historical truth, which is why they protested so strenuously when, over Christmas, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas...
Op-eds
Durban III: The Good News and the Bad News
In the United Nations cosmos of Orwellian ventures, one of the prominent features has become the series of conferences named for an initial 2001 conclave in Durban, South Africa. That gathering w...