Madeleine Albright

September 3, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.

September 12, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Extremism and fragile states

Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...

May 5, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Should Trump Meet With Kim Jong Un?

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong Un under the right conditions. Trump is not the first president to consider meeting a North Korean le...

May 13, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Done Deal?

All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...

August 31, 2015 | |

Nuclear Fiascoes: From Diplomatic Failure With North Korea To Debacle With Iran

With Congress due to vote by Sept. 17 on the Iran nuclear deal, there’s a warning worth revisiting. It goes like this: The president is pushing a historic nuclear agreement, saying it will...

August 6, 2015 | John Hannah |

What the President Got Wrong in His Defense of the Iran Deal

It’s hard to know where to begin a critique of President Obama’s ...

November 7, 2014 | |

Iran Nuclear Talks and North Korean Flashbacks

With the Iran nuclear talks nearing a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal, U.S. chief negotiator Wendy Sherman is under pressure to bring almost a year of bargaining to fruition. While U.S. ...

November 19, 2013 | |

Iran Follows in North Korea’s Nuclear Shoes

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from the latest round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva earlier this month to say t...

April 30, 2012 | |

Terrorists or Fall Guys?

The MEK puzzle.

November 9, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Should Treasury Sanction the Palestinian Investment Fund?

In a move that should startle members of Congress, a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund that has long received American taxpayer support will soon begin building houses for convicted members of te...

October 5, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer The Hill |

Congress Needs to Investigate a Corrupt Palestine Investment Fund

In a twist that almost certainly violates U.S. law, American taxpayers are unwittingly contributing to a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund controlled in part by the terrorist group Hamas....

June 15, 2011 | Pajamas Media |

Condi Rice Wants Us to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Kim Jong Il

It needs the talents of Stanley Kubrick to do justice to the complete Cuckoo’s Nest that American policy on North Korea has become. The State Department wants a nuclear deal, Presi...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

No More Illusions

Michael Ledeen's tour de force shows the war with Iran is already on, whether we choose fight it or not.

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online |

Talking Cure

Obama's flawed thinking.

June 13, 2011 | National Interest Online

Symbolism and Realpolitik

 Amid the complex dynamics of the Horn of Africa, the most significant national interest at stake for the United States is preventing Al-Qaeda (or any other like-minded international terrori...

June 13, 2011 | The Spectator |

Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House

Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....

May 16, 2011 |

Palestine’s German Friends

 The major media outlets reported this week that the German government and its fully-owned Deutsche Bahn railway company terminated participation in a long-planned Israeli rapid rail project...

February 24, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years

The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to ne...

September 30, 2009 | |

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years

The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an alm...

February 19, 2009 | |

Try Real ‘Change’ Toward North Korea

We shouldn't ''engage'' with a government that kills, suppresses and starves its citizens.