Volume 13, Issue 75

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How Not to Negotiate

By Sarah Stern / December 11th, 2020 / JNS

When a new administration enters office, it often seems like their major foreign policy objective is to undo the perceived “errors” of the prior administration, rather than evaluating where we are today, and how to enhance America’s national security interests, and that of her allies. It is almost as though the “enemy” is the prior administration, not America’s very real strategic foes, throughout the world.

This is certainly the case with the incoming Biden administration, which even on the campaign trail, promised that the United States will go back to the JCPOA, the nuclear deal that was negotiated in 2015 between Iran and the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China. When the United States, under President Trump, decided to withdraw from the JCPOA in 2018 there was a collective cry of alarm among the international community and the foreign policy establishment.


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This is America: Anti-Semitism is not a punchline USA Today

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