Past and present policies indicate the president could be militarily hawkish or purely transactional, depending on the moment Only one month in, the foreign policy moves of the Trump Administration in Europe, the Middle East, and North America indicate that radical, tumultuous change, marked most notably by major reversals in …

The heated exchange between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office revealed the true nature – and cost – of being a so-called US ally. The meeting, which took place on February 28, ended with the visiting Ukrainian president being asked to leave the …

Work is underway on a reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip in coordination between Egypt and various Arab countries, and its details are supposed to be presented at the Arab Summit in Cairo, where the Arab countries moved to respond quickly to US President Donald Trump’s proposals regarding the displacement …

How Reparations for Assad’s Victims Can Bring Stability to a Broken Country In the months since the militant opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stunned the world by bringing down the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in early December 2024, Syria has faced many pressing concerns. The country is ravaged and war-torn. …

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is claimed both by the Polisario Front—a rebel group that the UN recognizes as the legitimate representative …

Climate Change Will Fuel Contests—and Maybe Wars—for Land and Resources Since the mid-twentieth century, the power dynamics and system of alliances that made up the postwar global order provided a strong check on campaigns to conquer and acquire territory—an otherwise enduring feature of human history. But rather than marking a …

Latest Developments ‘U.S. and Iran Should Solve All Problems Through Negotiations’: A top spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime confirmed on March 4 that Moscow was willing to mediate between the United States and Iran over the ongoing Iranian nuclear program. “Russia believes that the United States and Iran …

Introduction With the February 10 executive order renewing and enhancing US tariffs on steel and aluminum,1 President Donald Trump has given shape to his vision of the United States in the global economy. It is a vision of economic security based on walling off the United States from free flows …

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has called for a ceasefire and an eventual end to the armed struggle.[1] Mazloum Abdi, the General Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), welcomed Öcalan’s appeal, viewing it as a crucial opportunity for peace. Abdi stated that the …

The German far-right “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD) recently achieved a remarkable electoral success: More than 10.3 million citizens, or 20.8 percent of all participating voters, granted it a record 152 seats in the Bundestag,[1] German parliament’s lower chamber. The party is considered not only ultra-right, but is almost always called …