China’s Search for Allies

The United States’ network of alliances has long been a central pillar of its foreign policy—and, as competition with China has intensified in recent years, held up as a major U.S. advantage. The…

Patricia M. Kim

America’s “Other Options” on Iran

“We’re putting diplomacy first and seeing where that takes us,” US President Joe Biden said during his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the White House on August 27. “But…

Ahmed Taher

The Afghanistan War in Hollywood

A few days after the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban, Ann Hornaday, a film critic in The Washington Post wrote that “we have seen this movie before.” This often-used expression also has…

Mohammad Ali Salih

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is there can be no instant…

Martin Schram