United States National Security Advisor

March 8, 2023 | |

Secretary of Defense Austin Visits Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Israel

Latest Developments Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to visit Israel tomorrow after trips to Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt this week. Originally slated to visit Israel today, Austin reportedly delayed...

January 10, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Orde Kittrie

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

December 21, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Abdullah in the middle

Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords

December 8, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Neither Here Nor There

Jordan and the Abraham Accords

September 15, 2022 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, David Adesnik

U.S. Should Deny Visa to Iranian President

A bipartisan group of 52 U.S. lawmakers asked President Joe Biden on Monday to deny Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi permission to visit New York for the UN General Assembly later this month. This would...

September 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

April 12, 2022 | Andrea Stricker |

How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran

The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015...

February 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

January 30, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal, Ben Evansky

Is the Biden administration seeking to rejoin controversial UN agency accused of aiding Iran and North Korea?

UNIDO has been accused of helping U.S enemies

January 20, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Abu Dhabi attack shows talking to Iran is futile

The regime’s decision to turn on the UAE at such a moment might be one that the Islamic republic will come to regret in the future.

June 29, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late June

June 9, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Leaving Afghanistan

There’s not much time left to mitigate the consequences

April 8, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

A Chance to Stop Syria and Russia From Using Chemical Weapons

Moscow and Damascus have evaded all accountability, but Biden can build a coalition to change that.

March 4, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden Must Expose China’s COVID-19 Cover-Up

Chinese authorities are still refusing to share critical evidence about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) still refuses to challenge Beijing and is even promoting...

February 9, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Andrea Stricker

Shining a Light on the Iran Deal’s Sunset Problem

If the new administration is serious about reinvigorated diplomacy, it must resist Iran’s nuclear extortion and forgo the temptation of re-joining the JCPOA. Breathing life into an expiring accord will not help dampen the Islamic Republic’s nuclear, missile, and military threats.

December 16, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Reading foreign policy tea leaves

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

October 23, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

Yes, Virginia, the Trump Administration Does Have a China Strategy

The administration is pursuing a whole-of-government approach to counter China’s concept of Comprehensive National Power.

October 22, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

One Term of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on North Korea

A new book from H.R. McMaster offers a look back at Trump's attempted containment and wooing of Kim Jong-un.

October 7, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

McMaster and commander in chief

The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”

October 2, 2020 | Clifford D. May, LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster

H.R. McMaster and the Fight to Defend the Free World