By Annelle Sheline on Dec 16, 2024 09:30 am Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told his staff to prepare to annex the West Bank. Read in browser »
By Anatol Lieven on Dec 16, 2024 12:05 am President-elect Trump is reportedly advancing the idea that a large and heavily armed peacekeeping force from Europe (but including NATO members) could be introduced into Ukraine as part of a peace settlement there. It is important that this very ill-thought-out idea be shot down before it does serious damage to the prospects for an early peace and causes Ukraine still further human, economic and territorial loss. Read in browser »
By Stavroula Pabst on Dec 13, 2024 06:01 pm Senior advisers for President-elect Trump’s transition team are weighing whether to launch military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. Read in browser »
By Mark Episkopos on Dec 13, 2024 12:05 am Contemporary neoconservatism is, in its guiding precepts and policy manifestations, a profoundly ahistorical ideology. It is a millenarian project that not just eschews but explicitly rejects much of the inheritance of pre-1991 American statecraft and many generations of accumulated civilizational wisdom from Thucydides to Kissinger in its bid to remake the world. Read in browser »
By Eldar Mamedov on Dec 12, 2024 12:05 am As the war between Russia and Ukraine is framed by the ruling politicians and commentators in Europe and America as part of a purported global struggle between democracies and autocracies, the quality of democracy in the West itself has taken a hit. Read in browser »
By Peter Van Buren on Dec 12, 2024 12:05 am If a time traveler from 2024 landed in the Middle East of say 40 years ago, with the intent of revealing the future, he might not be believed. Read in browser »
Following Donald Trump’s election victory, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told his staff to 
President-elect Trump is reportedly advancing the idea that a large and heavily armed peacekeeping force from Europe (but including NATO members) could be introduced into Ukraine as part of a peace settlement there. It is important that this very ill-thought-out idea be shot down before it does serious damage to the prospects for an early peace and causes Ukraine still further human, economic and territorial loss.
Senior advisers for President-elect Trump’s transition team are weighing whether to launch military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, according to a new 
Contemporary neoconservatism is, in its guiding precepts and policy manifestations, a profoundly 
As the war between Russia and Ukraine is framed by the ruling politicians and commentators in Europe and America as part of a purported global struggle between democracies and autocracies, the quality of democracy in the West itself has taken a hit.
If a time traveler from 2024 landed in the Middle East of say 40 years ago, with the intent of revealing the future, he might not be believed.