Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

May 13, 2024 | Cleo Paskal, Col. Grant Newsham

How China is Winning the Solomon Islands

Since 2019, Beijing has spent a considerable amount of money and effort setting up its position in the Solomon Islands and openly assisting in the crushing of dissent.

February 2, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration

August 1, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

In Turkey and Pakistan, discouraging elections

Not so long ago, freedom and democracy seemed to be on the march in the world, with Turkey and Pakistan, two strategically important Muslim-majority nations, near the front of the parade. That tu...

June 13, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Ronald Reagan’s freedom agenda

Ronald Reagan was tough on totalitarians. On March 8, 1983 -- and to the chagrin of many of his advisors – he disparaged the Soviet Union as an...

August 9, 2017 | Clifford D. May

Not everyone can join the American Nation

This is a peculiar moment in history, one in which we have come to expect the unexpected. Even so, I was surprised to see this: a reporter and a White House official debating poetry. I&r...

April 24, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Hezbollah’s Farcical Media Tour at the Israel-Lebanon Border

Last Thursday, Hezbollah organized a tour for journalists along the border with Israel, where the Iranian proxy highlighted the various topographical alterations the IDF...

March 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May

What went wrong in Pakistan

Pakistan was meant to be a model, an example for other nations to emulate. It was founded after World War II, as the sun was set...

January 30, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Final Obama Scandal

Co-written by Stephen F. Hayes.  Less than 24 hours before the official end of the Obama presidency, while White House staffers were pulling pictures off the walls and cle...

March 29, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Erdogan’s Tactics in Turkey–and Challenges in Washington

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming to Washington this week offic...

March 22, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz |

Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path

The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...

March 7, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz |

Hassan Rouhani, ‘Moderates’ and Iran’s Post-Election Path

The recent elections in Iran sparked intense debat...

November 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Long War Continues

In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...

May 27, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda’s Nigeria Franchise

When Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the more than 200 Nigerian girls held by the extremist group Boko Haram, she probably did not expect that her tenure as secretary of state would soon...

April 12, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Exploiting Osama Bin Laden’s Files

Top U.S. intelligence officials revealed new details about the exploitation of Osama bin Laden’s extensive archive during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. The officials r...

March 4, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

John Brennan and the Bin Laden Files

During a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 30, 2012, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, discussed “The Ethics and Efficacy of the U.S. Pres...

January 14, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Interrogate Brennan

President Obama’s nominee for CIA director, John Brennan, has been one of the president’s closest advisers over the last four years. So it should come as no surprise that O...

October 4, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

US Drone Strike Kills 4 al Qaeda ‘Militants’ in Southern Yemen

US drones conducted their first strike against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen in nearly a month, killing four "militants." The unmanned Predators or Reapers fired se...

October 4, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

America’s Future in the Mideast

Thomas Friedman, Elliott Abrams, Walter Russell Mead, and Aaron David Miller advise the next president.

June 22, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Member of Al Qaeda-Allied Organization Visits Washington

Writing at the Daily Beast, Eli Lake has the scoop o...

December 17, 2010 | IPS

U.S. Readies New Sanctions on Iran Ahead of Talks

WASHINGTON, Dec 15, 2010 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration is preparing a new batch of sanctions against Iran to be announced next week in advance of nuclear talks in Turkey. Two Iran...