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America Should Be Israel's Partner, Not Its Patron
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (350+ words) RAPHAEL BENLEVI is a senior fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security, director of the Churchill Program for Statecraft and Security at the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem, and the author of Cultures of Counterproliferation: The Making of American and…...
How to Fight an Economic War
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (563+ words) A Field Manual for a Ruptured World But not every economic dependence represents a chokepoint. And if Washington treats each one as a national security threat, it will sacrifice growth and prosperity without materially improving its security. Likewise, attempts to…...
Can Saudi Arabia Keep Hedging?
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (285+ words) MARIA FANTAPPIE is head of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa Program at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. VALI NASR is Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International…...
What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (250+ words) BEHNAM BEN TALEBLU is Senior Director of the Iran Program and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The U. S. Military Must Go Big'and Then Let Iranians Do the Rest The Venezuela model, in other words, will not…...
Lebanon's Coming Collapse
2+ week, 5+ day ago (204+ words) MAHA YAHYA is Director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center. An Israeli Assault Is Pushing the Fragile Country to the Brink Lebanon's president has called for direct negotiations with Israel to end the ongoing conflict, breaking a decades-old…...
The Real War for Iran's Future
3+ week, 1+ day ago (167+ words) Who Will Determine the Fate of the Islamic Republic? It worked. Khomeini died on June 3, 1989, Khamenei was appointed his successor the day after, and Rafsanjani was elected president the following month. But if Rafsanjani thought he was on a glide…...
The Iran Imperative: How America and Israel Can Shape a New Middle East
2+ week, 6+ day ago (233+ words) How America and Israel Can Shape a New Middle East Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov Neutralizing Iran's proxies is particularly essential. For decades, Iran has been able to wreak havoc on the Middle East by arming, funding, and coordinating nonstate…...
The AI Trilemma
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (178+ words) SEBASTIAN ELBAUM is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. SEBASTIAN MALLABY is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of…...
America and Iran's Long Road to Peace
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (163+ words) SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN served as head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran's National Security Council from 1997 to 2005. He is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University and the author of Iran and the United States: An Insider's View on…...
The Iran War Comes to Iraq
3+ week, 1+ day ago (350+ words) RENAD MANSOUR is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House. Baghdad Slides Into a Conflict It Long Wanted to Escape The U. S. -Israeli war against Iran has triggered one of the Middle East's long-feared…...