Why Macron has turned his focus to foreign policy
ZAID M. BELBAGI January 01, 2023 While French President Emmanuel Macron’s first term was characterized by the ambitious young leader’s standoffs with unions and interest groups as he sought to […]
Is this the worst German government in history?
BY YUNUS MAZI DEC 29, 2022 The new German government has failed to fill the gap, worse even, the gap got bigger and more prominent in the current year. (Getty […]
Pakistani politics’ enfant terrible
Pakistani politics’ enfant terrible Zahid HussainPublished April 13, 2022 – Updated 29 minutes ago 0 THE en masse resignation of PTI MNAs, except for the dissidents, from the National Assembly is not surprising. […]
Logic of Turkey’s diplomatic activism
BY TALHA KÖSE DEC 01, 2021 – 12:05 AM GMT+3Planet Earth is lit by the lights of large cities, with Turkey seen at the center. (Photo by Shutterstock) In the […]
Iran embarks on a new regional policy
Politics August 29, 2021 TEHRAN – From the beginning, the new Iranian government of Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi made it clear that change in the executive branch would bring about […]
The predictable collapse of US nation-building in Afghanistan
DR. JOHN C. HULSMAN August 06, 2021 22:27459 Short Url https://arab.news/j8qaq In my last book, “To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk,” each chapter represents a key precept, […]
Confess your sins, but you won’t be healed
BY HAKKI ÖCAL: COLUMNS MAR 08, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a meeting with his Mexican counterpart, at the White […]
Joe Biden’s in-tray: The five key foreign policy issues
Author LUKE COFFEY January 01, 2021 ARAB NEWS Short Url https://arab.news/b7vaa Whenever there is a new leader behind the desk in the Oval Office, they are sure to be tested […]
FOREIGN POLICY ESSAY Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Pakistan Reset
By Madiha Afzal Sunday, October 25, 2020, 10:01 AM President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office on July 22, 2019. Photo credit: Official White […]
Europe’s contradictions exposed by Middle East crises
Sau KHALED ABOU ZAHR October 07, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/bxb8w European leaders meet on the sidelines of the EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, on July 19, […]
What does Turkey’s natural gas discovery mean for its foreign policy?
BY YAHYA BOSTAN COLUMNS AUG 24, 2020 Turkey’s drillship, Fatih, crosses the Bosporus as it heads toward the Black Sea with the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in the background, Istanbul, […]
What is a moral foreign policy?
Mar 05,2020 -JORDAN TIMES By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE — Many Americans say they want a moral foreign policy, but disagree on what that means. Using a three-dimensional scorecard […]
Moderate Islam in the Maghreb: How US foreign policy shapes Islamist contention
April 4, 2019 Since the beginning of the U.S-led war on terror, a handful of Muslim-majority states have begun to brand themselves on the international stage as a source of […]
The U.S.’ grand security strategy for Middle East in crisis
MOJTABA BARGHANDAN A cleric and a woman walk past an anti-U.S. mural painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. U.S. foreign policy and a wider anti-Middle […]
Don’t be blinded by Syria – Putin’s recent foreign policy moves show he’s more interested in peace than war
Russian foreign policy craves respect, and seeks to demonstrate that it can hold its own alongside the biggest and the best – including the military sphere Mary Dejevsky Voronezh, Russia @IndyVoices The […]
Foreign policy for sale: Greece’s dangerous alliance with Israel
Feb 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist […]
US foreign policy in the Middle East doesn’t exist anymore
Now it is Putin who invites Bashar al-Assad to Sochi, and chats to the presidents of Iran and Turkey, and whose army remains in Syria, and remains a good friend […]
It’s time America explored how to end the multiple wars it has helped cause since 2001, rather than dropping more bombs
Source: Independent Moan about Trump all you like, but his approach to Syria was always much more realistic than Hillary Clinton’s. ‘You are fighting Syria, Syria is fighting Isis, and you have to get rid of Isis,’ he said during his election campaign. ‘Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and […]
Screwed?: 4 Top International Crises we have to depend on Trump to Resolve
By Juan Cole | Jan. 18, 2017 | By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a […]
Reporting Behind Enemy Lines in Mosul
DISPATCH Reporting Behind Enemy Lines in Mosul Omar al-Jubory believed the world needed to know what life was like under the Islamic State. He barely got out alive. BY DAVID KENNER JANUARY 2, 2017 Omar al-Jubory began his career as a journalist in the deep end — covering the most […]