Matt Duss discusses the collapse of Biden’s approach to the Middle East: The past week saw the destruction of yet another dream palace: the Biden administration’s effort to reinforce a U.S.-dominated Middle East security architecture through closer defense pacts with...
Matt Duss comments on the uncritical backing for Israel from most Western governments: Repressive regimes claim that references to international law and the “rules based order” are simply cudgels for the West to use against adversaries while giving friends a pass. The...
The Israeli government is demanding that Palestinian civilians evacuate Gaza city. The U.N. and humanitarian agencies say that this is an impossible demand, and some say it is also unlawful: The Norwegian Refugee Council, an international aid agency operating in the...
The displacement of more than a million people in the middle of what is already a dire humanitarian crisis would be a massive crime in itself. The Israeli government is demanding that Palestinian civilians evacuate Gaza city. The U.N. and humanitarian...
The decision makes no sense on the merits, and it seems to be driven entirely by the administration’s desire to mollify hawkish critics that will never be satisfied by anything Biden does. The Washington Post reports that the Biden administration is apparently...
Suzanne Maloney has conveniently discovered that a new war in the Middle East requires deeper U.S. involvement in the region: What has begun, almost inexorably, is the next war – one that will be bloody, costly, and agonizingly unpredictable in its course and outcome....
Stephen Walt criticizes the Biden administration’s version of “Pactomania”: Even when states are united by a shared perception of threats, however, the ultimate value of the partnership depends in part on whether the members agree on a common strategy and are willing...
M. Taylor Fravel contends that the Chinese government isn’t likely to lash out militarily to distract from its domestic problems: Since 1949, China has frequently suffered from significant ethnic and political unrest and economic shocks. But virtually no leaders have...
Human Rights Watch released a new report on how Saudi forces have been killing Ethiopian migrants by the hundreds and possibly even the thousands over the last year and a half: Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers...
Eldar Mamedov responds to the hawkish screeching about the deal that the administration reached to get the Iranian government to free five American prisoners that it had been unjustly detaining: The outcry is clearly politically motivated, as it seeks to depict Biden...
