Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

October 24, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

BRICS showcases non-Western world order emerging

The expansion of BRICS into countries that are close to the West shows how many states are hedging their bets on this non-western group of powerful economies.

February 19, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Russia’s worrisome invite to Hamas, PIJ and its implications

Russia has invited Palestinian groups to Moscow, which could bring together Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and other terrorist groups

December 1, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Hamas renews rocket fire, Israel responds as pause in fighting ends 

Hamas renewed rocket fire on Israel just before 06:00 local time on Friday, December 1, ending a pause in fighting that had held for one week. The Israel Defense Forces said the Iron Dome air...

August 27, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Beware of Falling BRICS

With the BRICS Summit coming to a close, it is unclear what has been accomplished.

June 11, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

America’s Power Competition Goes Awry in Lula’s Brazil

When the dust settles, the consequences of Lula’s approach will serve neither American interests nor Brazil’s.

April 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Losing Latin America

The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance

March 17, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Palestine’s Plan for When Peace Talks Fail

Co-authored by Grant Rumley Despite the unshakable and quixotic optimism of John Kerry’s Middle East negotiating team, the prevailing prognosis in Jerusalem and Ramallah i...

June 28, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran’s Latin America Strategy

Speaking in Washington at the annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee in May 2007, Argentina’s then-senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner publicly reiterated her unwavering commitme...

June 24, 2011 |

Fatah, Hamas, and the Statehood Gambit

On May 3,  Hamas and Fatah, the two largest and most influential Palestinian factions, created a unity government. Following a brutal civil war in 2007 that left Hamas in control of the Gaza...

December 8, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer Foreign Policy

A Palestinian State Means War

With the U.S.-led peace process looking increasingly moribund, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has begun enlisting foreign leaders in a dangerous effort to recognize a Palestinian state witho...

June 18, 2010 | |

Turkey’s Hollow Prize

It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...

June 17, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Boxing Iran?

President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...

June 16, 2010 | Jessica Risch Pajamas Media

What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’ s Foreign Minister?

Update (June 16th, 2010 10:20 am): A press assistant at the Wilson Center confirmed this morning that what I wrote below is correct. The ceremonial dinner, honoring Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet...

June 6, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media

And Now, Ahmadinejad Goes to Istanbul

Yes, on Monday Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to touch down in Turkey.  Seems like the Turkish and Iranian governments just can’t get enough of each other these days. This visi...

May 27, 2010 | World Defense Review |

Turkey’s Return to Africa

In the end, neither the superabundant expressions of support voiced by donor nations for the ramshackle “Transitional Federal Government” (TFG) of Somalia nor that regime’s corr...

May 21, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes |

A Quisling Turkey

Beware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional...

May 17, 2006 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

The Brazilian Connection

SAO PAULO - When I arrived in this sprawling commercial capital a few days ago, to speak at an international conference on “liberal democracy,” the last thing I expected was to find m...