Can NATO Keep It Together?
When the 32 NATO allies convene for the bloc’s summit in The Hague, the number one objective will be to avoid an open blowup between Washington and its closest—or should ...
Tag: geopolitics
Can Trump Sit Through a Multilateral Meeting?
Donald Trump came to Canada to play the hits. Seven years ago, Trump arrived in Canada for the G-7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec. At the time, the United States was ...
Israel’s Long Road to Regional Dominance
Israel is nearing the end of a remarkable, half-century-long arc of history in which it first established military dominance over its Arab neighbors and is now asserting the same degree ...
The Many Ways U.S. Involvement in the War on Iran Could Go Badly
Following days of Israeli bombardment of Iran and missiles fired on Tel Aviv and other cities in reprisal by that country, the United States suddenly finds itself on the precipice ...
Russia’s Newest Victims May Be Fish
Fishing is an inherently international business, and so fishers inevitably brush up against the lines of geopolitics. In recent years, Norwegian fishermen have defied Russian Navy vessels conducting exercises in ...
Does Xi Have Trump’s Number?
The world breathed a sigh of relief on May 12 when, after negotiations in Geneva, the United States and China initially agreed to a 90-day pause in their trade war, ...
Nuclear Claims Are a Smoke Screen for Hopes of Toppling Iran
The real debate has never been about what to do with Iran’s nuclear program. It’s always been about what to do with the regime. For some people in Israel and ...
Another Bad Night in Kyiv
It was just after midnight on June 10, and Kyiv’s curfew had just begun when news of incoming rockets and drones buzzed on our phone screens. I was sitting on ...
Why the West Embraced Syria and Ditched Afghanistan
If you’re a pragmatic Taliban official in Kabul, the West’s warm embrace of Syria’s new leader must be jarring. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa—once affiliated with an offshoot of al Qaeda—has ...
The United States Needs a Nuclear Operation Warp Speed
A new Pew Research Center poll finds partisan polarization among Americans at its highest level in decades. As just the latest example, House Republicans passed a budget bill without a ...
