US military exercise brings Libya’s rival factions together

The initiative runs alongside an agreed budget and political discussions on power-sharing facilitated by an American envoy, but Washington is concerned about the presence of foreign fighters

Rifaat Balkhair

Brexit and Broken Promises

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Peter Hall

America’s Role in the New Middle East

For most policy-makers and pundits, the Middle East has long been a tinderbox. American presidents in the past feared a US-Soviet confrontation in the event of Arab-Israeli wars. Richard Nixon, at…

Dennis Ross

Angela Merkel’s Vision Problem

As the head of the country’s biggest political party for eighteen years, and its chancellor for twelve,Angela Merkelhas done more to shape contemporaryGermanythan any post-war leader other than…

Yascha Mounk

Moscow’s Nuclear Enigma

Talk to anybody in Washington and you will hear an ominous mantra: the Russians are back. A resurgent Moscow is sowing discord among Western states and trying to re-establish its sphere of influence…

Olga Oliker