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3- Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah, Ambassador of Kuwait to the US (L) and Sheikha Rima Al-Sabah (2nd L), with UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban, at the Annual Gala of the Kuwait-America Foundation on 11 March 2012. (Photo credit: flickr)

In Recognition of Rima Al-Sabah's Social Activism in Washington

Last week, Rima Al-Sabah, wife of Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and a former Lebanese journalist, held her last major international reception, concluding 21 years of Arab and Muslim…

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Are the Bretton Woods Institutions Apolitical or a Mere Tool of Imperialism?

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are intergovernmental institutions founded in 1944 which greatly influence world development and financial order. They are also known as the…

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An Ethiopian boy refugee who fled the Tigray conflict walks carrying a container of oil contributed by USAID, at Village Eight transit centre near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 2, 2020. (Getty)

Development Depends on More Than Aid

In the quarter century preceding the global COVID-19 pandemic, the world achieved something astonishing: worldwide poverty fell by more than 60 percent. Foreign aid played an important role in…

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U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken following Blinken's testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Blinken discussed the Biden administration's priorities for U.S. foreign policy. (Getty)

White House Foreign Policy Moves Defy Expectations

The Biden administration has weathered its first series of tests abroad and offered glimpses of an emerging foreign policy. Dismissing the temptations of immediate disengagement from the region, the…

Joseph Braude 19, Mar 2021

Flags of NATO member countries hang at the Parliament Square at the last NATO Summit in London, on December 2, 2019.

The EU is the Military Ally the United States Needs

Tensions over anemic European defense spending have long suffused transatlantic relations—and since 2014, they have become all-consuming, crowding out other priorities, straining the alliance, and…

Max Bergmann 15, Jan 2021

Released students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, Nigeria after an attack by Boko Haram

Don’t Discount America’s Interest in Keeping Africa Safe

The Defense Department’s coming near-total withdrawal of troops from Somalia follows its 2019 re-assessment of its force posture in Africa, aimed at shifting finite resources to great power…

Maj. Scott D. Adamson 15, Jan 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2018 in New York City. (Getty)

Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

When U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, he deliberately signaled a definitive break with the internationalist consensus that has guided U.S. grand…

Charles A. Kupchan 28, Sep 2018

When Funerals Become Political

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