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When Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States in January 2025, he faced a world very different from the one U.S.... Read More

The Trump administration’s attempts to coerce Iran would have been more effective if they had been imposed earlier.   Read More

As the world watches the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a sense of chaos has been inescapable. But there’s something different about... Read More

In declaring an extension to the ceasefire in the Iran war, President Trump signalled clearly enough that he would prefer to strike a peace... Read More

Every April 23rd, as sure as night follows day, the UK commentariat loves to sneer at ordinary English people. Read More

A playbook to address the munitions crisis. Read More

At Camp David in 2000, Yasser Arafat told Dennis Ross, President Bill Clinton’s chief Middle East negotiator, that no Jewish Temple had... Read More

There is a growing sense in the U.S. that order and stability are not always in our best interests.   Read More

President Donald Trump has claimed victory in the war in Iran even before the conflict is over. But despite killing the... Read More

The conflict in the Middle East is plunging an already fragile Iranian economy into freefall.   Read More

President Donald Trump has indefinitely extended the cease-fire with Iran, even though the core issues that triggered the war remain... Read More

China is Iran’s most important economic partner, buying some 90% of its oil exports and providing a financial lifeline to the heavily... Read More

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a... Read More

On a recent trip, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk gushed over relations with Warsaw’s “most important ally after the... Read More

At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, the head of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT)... Read More

“Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the... Read More

The star of China's booming artificial intelligence defense sector had been working on Taiwan invasion scenarios—until he died in an... Read More

Nuclear weapons are treated by the governments that have them as a useful tool. Obtaining a nuclear weapon enters you into a rare club where... Read More

In a corner of Trafalgar Square, a gaggle of tourists watched Harry Maguire, winner of MasterChef 2025, talking about pastry. This,... Read More

A truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon is a good start, as long as additional steps are taken to reduce its grip on the region   Read More

What becomes of Cuba? This enduring and already freighted question has acquired dizzying new dimensions in the aftermath of the U.S.... Read More

Talks in Havana are starting to deliver results even as Washington prepares for the possibility of war Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

Nothing that the Iranians say can be taken at face value because there is no Iranian government. The first and second echelon of that... Read More

Perhaps we should be used to be this by now. Yet again, there have been a flurry of promises to rapidly achieve peace in Iran. Yet again, the... Read More

If anyone knows that President Donald Trump, for all his bluster, can mean what he says, it is the Iranians. Read More

The reality that regime change is not going to happen as a result of this war seems to have settled in at the White House.  Read More

The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times editorial writer, Tom Friedman, says he is “torn” between his wish to have Iran... Read More

While Washington remains mired in the tactical mud of the Middle East, acting reckless, erratic, and increasingly lawless, China is playing a... Read More

There has been a notable absence from the Iran war, only occasionally rearing his head, and, even then, without much... Read More

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, dozens of senior officials from around the world sat alongside... Read More

When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a... Read More

Remember the Paris Agreement? Signed a decade ago today, it was hailed as a historic milestone in the fight against climate change, with... Read More

If you value privacy, you may not want to go to Hong Kong anytime soon. Already reeling under the draconian National Security Law, the... Read More

American foreign policy has derived much of its power and sense of direction from liberal ideals.   Read More

Multiple sources tell me that a credible whistleblower complaint was filed alleging the CIA, FBI and other IC agencies suppressed... Read More

There is growing international concern as the fragile two-week ceasefire reaches its Wednesday deadline. Whatever happens next, the... Read More

The Iranian regime continues to silence the Iranian people through an internet blackout, obstruction of satellite transmissions and cutting... Read More

As a retired Green Beret with 25 years in the U.S. Army, I have spent much of my life in the dust of Iraq and Afghanistan. I have seen,... Read More

Access to the Strait of Hormuz, which carries roughly a quarter of global oil flows, remains contested. The waterway has been... Read More

One of the biggest geopolitical consequences of the recent U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Read More

An Iranian opposition leader criticised European countries on Wednesday for doing too little to halt executions in Iran, after Tehran carried... Read More

Hungary’s incoming prime minister wants to forge closer ties with Austria and other Central European nations to wield greater power in... Read More

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, bringing self-identified postliberal J.D. Vance into the White House, friends told me that James M.... Read More

Iraq’s oil exports have collapsed by up to 80% due to the Hormuz disruption, creating a severe fiscal crisis for an oil-dependent... Read More