Round 2: Lebanon-Israel talks inch forward

Given concerns about Hezbollah backlash, Beirut will likely want to proceed incrementally toward its stated goal of establishing a state monopoly on weapons

David Schenker

The Collapse of German Centrism

In the late summer of 2015, when it seemed that the flow of refugees intoEuropemight never abate, GermanChancellor Angela Merkelheld a press conference. She’d just visited a refugee center near…

Peter Kuras

Do No Harm in Hong Kong

In the months after large-scale protests first broke out inHong Konglast June,U.S.policy circles remained relatively quiet. Yet as demonstrations turned violent and rumors of aBeijing-directed…

Kurt Tong

A Way Out of Spain’s Catalan Crisis

OnOctober 14, Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced several leaders of the Catalonian separatist movement to lengthy prison terms for their role in organizing a controversial independence referendum two…

Laia Balcells

How to End the War in Ukraine

For more than five years, Russian forces and their proxies have waged a bloody war against Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of easternUkraine. The conflict has claimed more than 13,000 lives,…

Steven Pifer