Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran
The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...
World
U.S. Urges Saudis to Stabilize Oil Prices, Underscoring Continued Energy Insecurity
Tomorrow in Vienna, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet with several non-OPEC producers, including Russia, to chart the future of the global oil market. The gro...
Policy Briefs
Trump’s art of the nuclear deals
Donald Trump inherited two deadly serious national security crises, one in the Middle East, one in the Far East. Look closely and you’ll see that these crises are inseverable....
Op-eds
A little pivot to Central Asia
Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It spans Central Asia, home to the world’s most sophisticated civilizations...
Op-eds
The Unthinkable
On an unseasonably warm October day recently, Donald Trump’s CIA director and national-security adviser appeared one after another at a conference in the nation’s capital. They soberl...
Op-eds
No Easy Way Out
By October 15, Donald Trump must decide what to do with his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. He has felt obliged, against his instincts, to recertify the deal every 90 days, per t...
Op-eds
Time to Designate Hezbollah as a Transnational Criminal Organization
Intended to fight transnational organized crime, Executive Orders 13581 and...
Policy Briefs
Rouhani Will Seek to Divide the West at the UN General Assembly
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will deliver his fifth annual address to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) this Wednesday. Rouhani is likely to emphasize tw...
Policy Briefs
‘For Erdogan, personal interest trumps national interest’: Former Turkish Member of Parliament
HNFP: What were the objective conditions that led to the success of the ‘March for Justice’? Is this the beginning of a sustainable opposition against the Justice and Developm...
Op-eds
Mahmoud Abbas and the Years of Terror
Mahmoud Abbas entered Yasser Arafat’s office in the Palestinian presidential complex, commonly referred to as the muqata‘a (compound), in the center of Rama...
Op-eds
Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options
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Congressional Testimonies
The Boeing and Airbus Iran deals shouldn’t fly
Sometimes international law is ambiguous. Sometimes not. When it comes to murdering civilians and using chemical weapons to get the job done, there are no gray areas, no fuzzy lines, no mitigatin...
Op-eds
North Korea’s nuclear blackmail: Trump, make sanctions work again
Co-written by Joshua Stanton. As North Korea reportedly...
Op-eds
Take Two at the NSC
It has been a tumultuous start for President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, to put it gently. General Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser less than a...
Op-eds
How Will Jihadist Strategy Evolve as the Islamic State Declines?
Co-written by Colin Clarke Jihadist strategy has always been dynamic and opportunistic. Milita...
Op-eds
Erdogan Must Avoid the Iran Trap
“The world is bigger than five.” This phrase, referring to the permanent members of the UN Security Council, is among Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's favorite platitudes...
Op-eds
The Implications of U.S. Aircraft Sales to Iran
Executive Summary As we approach the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), many of the concerns of tho...
Congressional Testimonies
The Battle of Bangladesh
Over the past ten months, there have been more than 30 terrorist attacks in Bangladesh. In recent days, an Italian aid worker was gunned down as he went for a jog. Also shot to death was a Cathol...
Op-eds
Islamic State Committing ‘Cultural Genocide’ by Selling Priceless Antiques to Westerners
Expert witnesses, while testifying before a House panel about the unprecedented level of looting and destruction of priceless antiques by jihadist groups across the Middle East, identified collec...
Op-eds
Preventing Cultural Genocide: Countering the Plunder and Sale of Priceless Cultural Antiquities
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