Policy Analysis

Now that China has supplanted terrorism on the list of Washington’s foreign policy priorities, Israel’s relationship with Beijing will have to change.

The top contenders from round two were unwilling to compromise, but new primary challengers, shifts in voting patterns, and potential plea bargains may make their inflexibility a moot point by March.

The government of Jordan has been adept at balancing domestic demands and international pressures in order to remain a moderate force in the Middle East, and will need to continue to take steps to ensure this delicate balance. Right now, despite continued popular concern over economic hardships, the main Muslim

New maritime and military agreements may pull Ankara into Libya’s civil war, adding yet another foreign actor to an already tortuous multilateral showdown.

An in-depth interview on the scope of the terrorist group's remaining activities in Syria, Iraq, and other countries, including the potential for future insurgencies and mass-casualty attacks.

Since Saudi Arabia broke ties with Iran following the 2016 ransacking and torching of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, tensions have soared and the potential for a full-fledged military confrontation has become virtually unavoidable. With the September attack on Saudi’s oil fields in Abqaiq and the very real threat of

روحانی در آستانه انتخابات مجلس، یک رویکرد مالی فوق‌العاده ریاضتی اتخاذ کرده، اما وضعیت اقتصادی ایران هنوز در بلندمدت باثبات نیست.

حنین غدار هموند مهمان بخش درحال گشایش فریدمن در برنامه گدولد برای سیاست عرب در انستیتو واشنگتن است. او بر سیاست‌های شیعی در سرتاسر منطقه شام تمرکز دارد.

Polling results from five Gulf countries show where citizens and their leaders converge and diverge on Iran, U.S. relations, and other crucial foreign policy matters.

از آنجا که سیاست فشار حداکثری مستلزم بازدارندگی حداکثری است، رئیس‌جمهور باید همزمان با اجتناب از نشر توییت‌ها‌ و اقداماتی که اعتبار ایالات متحده را در استفاده از قوه قهریه تضعیف می‌کند، دستور رعایت «قواعد درگیری» را صادر کند.

Iranian regime forces and affiliated militias have been taking advantage of the world’s diverted attention to carry out a campaign of slaughter and mass arrests against the country’s Ahwazi Arabs. These killings are occurring in the Ma`shour (also known as the Bandar-e Ma`shour) area of the Arab Ahwaz region of

The vote’s outcome will not have much legitimacy in the eyes of the people, so Washington should focus on urging all parties to lay the groundwork for longer-term reforms aimed at breaking the political deadlock.

In 2012, during a moment of national and regional consensus, the reserved, nonthreatening Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi was chosen as temporary president of Yemen. But Hadi, now seventy-four years old, has held onto power ever since, despite lacking a large base of domestic loyalists. Most important for the Yemeni people, the war needs to end with either a transitional council or elections so that a future leader enjoys the popular legitimacy Hadi lacks.

Given the potential for sideline progress toward healing the rift and refocusing on Iran, this year’s diplomatic theater will be more closely watched than usual.

بریتانیا، فرانسه، و آلمان در خصوص برنامه موشکی ایران نقشی فعالانه‌تر در پیش گرفته‌اند و علنا بر نگرانی‌های شناخته‌شده درباره فعالیت‌های تحقیق و توسعه رژیم ایران تاکید می‌کنند، اما برای تضمین شفافیت، به سازوکارهای عملی نیاز است.

Directly investing in nongovernmental enterprise and giving international approval to private competition can change the dynamic in individual countries, promote liberal economies, and give citizens greater agency.

سرانجام، برخی از بدترین عاملان سرکوب جنایتکارانه معترضان عراقی تحریم شده‌اند، اما اقدامات بعدی باید با هماهنگی با بریتانیا و دیگر متحدان سریع‌تر انجام شود.

Given the group’s operational silence and loss of foreign help, it may not be able to launch the type of insurgency seen in Syria, but that could change if U.S. attention wanes militarily or diplomatically.

Terrorism knows no borders—and the struggle against it calls for neighboring countries to cooperate for the sake of regional and global security. Regions including Europe have come to recognize this reality, with dozens of governments forging unprecedented partnerships in policing, intelligence, and counterterrorism over the past decade. In the Middle

After considerable consternation in U.S. congress against Turkey’s incursion into Syria, and a subsequent successful visit by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House in mid-November, much attention in the United States has been focused on Turkey’s foreign policy agenda. However, Turkey’s foreign policy in Syria is deeply