The End of Strategic Ambiguity
The Islamic Republic’s assault on the Gulf will forge the new Middle East.
Chama Mechtaly
· 9 min read
Foreign Affairs
A collection of 218 posts
Power Beyond Realpolitik
In geopolitics, moral culture shapes whether influence is experienced as leadership or domination, cooperation or coercion.
Scott Atran
· 8 min read
After Trump’s Iran Decision
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Allen Zeesman
· 6 min read
Heir Jordan
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Saudi Arabia’s Counter-Reformation
The Takfiris are back in business.
Aurele Tobelem
· 11 min read
Progressive Moral Reasoning and Iran’s Revolt
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
Roohola Ramezani
· 11 min read
The Fall of Zhang Youxia
A septuagenarian loyalist may be facing execution for the crimes of caution and professionalism.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
The Supreme Leader’s Reckoning
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
Roya Hakakian
· 6 min read
Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Stranded in History
China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
Francesca Albanese’s Campaign Against Israel
The UN Rapporteur’s latest report channels a single-minded contempt for the Jewish state.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Iran’s Forward-Operating Base in the West
With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
· 7 min read
The Somaliland Gamble
The world’s newest nation state could provide a buffer against Islamist influence in the Horn of Africa—if the bet on its stability pays off.
Aurele Tobelem
· 9 min read
Sudan Between Two Middle Easts
Between the jihad of the “Hamas of Africa” and the new order of the Abraham Accords, the choice in Sudan should be clear.
Chama Mechtaly
· 21 min read
Podcast #317: Sri Lankan by Birth, Tamil by Heritage, Canadian by Choice
Jonathan Kay speaks with Roy Ratnavel about his journey from a prison cell in war-torn Sri Lanka to the heights of Canada’s financial industry—and the lessons about immigration and multiculturalism he learned along the way.
Jonathan Kay, Roy Ratnavel
· 3 min read