Erdogan’s rivalry with Israel has a new front: Africa
The answer becomes clearer once the South African relationship is placed inside Turkey’s broader African buildup, which has been running for two decades and has little to do with Israel at all.
Soft power
Cutting AIDS relief hands South Africa to Russia, China
Excerpt If the COVID-19 pandemic taught the world anything, it is that vaccines, medicines, and health systems are not merely instruments of public health — they are also powerful tools of diplomacy. Unfortunately,...
Op-eds
Qatari Funding and Influence in American K-12 Classrooms
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Qatar covers its tracks: Gulf state spent millions to infiltrate American classrooms
Excerpt Qatar Foundation International has poured millions of dollars into U.S. K-12 public schools over the past 17 years. Qatari officials have long claimed that QFI has a “narrow philanthropic...
Op-eds
6 Reasons Why Qatar’s U.S. Financial Footprint Warrants Scrutiny
Qatar, a Persian Gulf emirate roughly the size of Connecticut, possesses outsized wealth by sitting atop the world’s largest natural gas reservoir. FDD has meticulously documented that this tiny country...
Insights
Qatari Money in America
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Visuals
Beijing’s influence persists in US schools under a new name
If students are learning Chinese in public schools, they could be using a curriculum shaped by the Chinese Communist Party.
Op-eds
America Should Rediscover the Soft Power Potential of Its Music
What made jazz – the quintessential American music – dangerous was not the sound, but the idea behind it: improvisation, spontaneity, individual voice.
Op-eds
Hybrid Warfare in Europe Against U.S. Interests
Moscow and Beijing’s Playbook
Legislative Testimonies
Beijing’s Subversive Political Warfare in the Pacific—and the Need for Greater Engagement by the United States and Taiwan
Honduras has said it intends to shift diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China. We know this story: with the exception of 2007, when St. Lucia switched from Beijing to Taipei, the trend has run in this...
Op-eds
The Middle Kingdom Meets Higher Education
How U.S. Universities Support China’s Military-Industrial Complex
Monographs
Brothers in Arms
The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis
Monographs
COIN is Dead. Long Live COIN?
By Bill Ardolino On a warm August afternoon, two dozen US and Afghan soldiers trudged through sticky corn fields to the village of Majiles in the contentious district of Sabari...