The Enemy Within
Iran is not Saudi Arabia’s biggest problem.
Chama Mechtaly
· 13 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 205 posts
An Electoral Reckoning at Last?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s unprecedented tenure as Israeli prime minister may be about to end.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
Antifragility in Ukraine
Four years into the full-scale invasion, Ukraine bears little resemblance to the country Russia expected to defeat in a matter of days.
Sergey Maidukov
· 7 min read
Taiwan in the Balance
Donald Trump seems to have given up on Taiwan’s long-term future.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Nixon Was Right
After all these years, the Communist Party is still handcuffed to its American rival, and it is unable to break free.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
This Is Not the 1970s
Amid the great uncertainties produced by the Iran War, some likelihoods have begun to emerge.
Milton Ezrati
· 5 min read
The Wrong Man
In Iran, Donald Trump is showing us what a populist war looks like.
Michael J. Totten
· 11 min read
Postliberalism After Hungary
Orbán’s defeat should scare the hell out of populist authoritarians.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
Germany’s Cozy Catastrophe
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Andreas Paul John
· 18 min read
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
The Axis of Renewal
Israel and the United States have already done much to dismantle the Axis of Resistance, but the broader network supported by Iran remains most active in Western Europe.
Aurele Tobelem
· 11 min read
Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
The First Post-Ideological Bedouin State
Why the misunderstood sovereign UAE thrives, and why ideologues—from the Islamic Republic to the Muslim Brotherhood—are invested in its demise.
Chama Mechtaly
· 11 min read
Trump, Tehran, and the China Calculus
The CCP will certainly take advantage should Iran turn into a major distraction for the US.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
A New World Order in the Making
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Hannah Gal, Shmuel Bar
· 13 min read