منافسة القوى العظمى

يشارك مسؤول بارز في حلف الناتو مع خبراء أمريكيين وإقليميين في مناقشة أثر جهود إدارة ترامب في صنع السلام على التوازنات الجيوسياسية الأوسع نطاقاً للحرب، بدءاً من صراع القوى العظمى في الشرق الأوسط وصولاً إلى قضية المعادن النادرة والخطاب المُعادي للغرب.

The Institute’s managing director testified before a Senate panel on U.S. policy post-Assad, explaining how patience, pragmatism, and a willingness to lead can help Washington avoid its past vacillation between excessive intervention and exasperated neglect in the Middle East.

The two leaders can use their personal rapport to solve bilateral and regional problems, but they will also face tough challenges in matters such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and dealings with China.

Two sanctioned Russia-linked oil tankers, which were attacked by the Houthis in 2023 and 2024, recently changed their names and are flying the Djiboutian flag amid stricter Western sanctions.

If Washington and its European partners fail to remediate ongoing disputes over trade rights and Western Sahara, they may leave room for Russia and China to assert more influence in the kingdom.

In this episode of the Institute’s Syria Breakdown series, Russia analyst Anna Borshchevskaya explains why Russia's long military intervention in Syria failed to protect the regime of its local ally, Bashar al-Assad, from collapse in the face of a stunning rebel advance.

Moscow is already taking steps to ensure that it can continue confounding U.S. interests in Ukraine and Syria even if the outcomes on these fronts wind up differently than expected.

انضم المدير التنفيذي لـ "فريق عمل منظمة الطوارئ السورية" إلى ثلاثة خبراء من معهد واشنطن لمناقشة التقدم المذهل للمتمردين في غرب البلاد.

Despite Russia’s uncertain response to the Assad regime’s latest embarrassing military setback, Moscow still sees Syria as a critical hotspot on the global stage and will seek to steer events there in its favor.