Key Points and Summary – Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter argues the Trump administration is inflating Venezuela into a major U.S. security threat to justify...
After North Korea, Eritrea is the world’s most repressive and totalitarian country. Independence leader Isaias Afwerki rules with an iron fist. He rejects elections,...
The Iranian government defaulted to its influence operations playbook in the aftermath of the September 17, 2024, systematic explosion of Hezbollah pagers, presumably enabled...
The conflicts raging in Ukraine and Gaza rightly dominate international headlines and show no sign of ending anytime soon. It is even more essential,...
Is “Operation Below the Belt” the End of Phones and Computers on Airplanes?: Earlier today, some entity—presumably Israel—caused 3,000 pagers used by Hezbollah to...
In over four decades of serving as an ambassador, Foreign Service Officer, and staffer in public and private international service organizations, I have lived...
Crises often define presidential legacies. Jimmy Carter had the Iran hostage crisis, Bill Clinton the Balkans, George W. Bush the September 11 terror attacks,...
Planned Withdrawal from Iraq is Gift to Iran, Islamic State: Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi has said then United States and Iraq have reached...
As Russian troops poured into Ukraine in 2022, the international community imposed sanctions, both unilaterally and multilaterally. Multinational companies withdrew from Russia. Within a...