Iran Needs A New Foreign Policy Approach
…Fellow, Middle East Perspectives Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been touring the Middle East, trying to build support for Tehran in anticipation of an Israeli response to Iran’s second…
Gordon Adams op-ed in Foreign Policy on midterm elections
…on foreign policy big time. But not the way you might think. Foreign policy was not on the ballot; nor is the United States losing a war or in a…
Kuwaiti Humanitarianism: The History and Expansion of Kuwait’s Foreign Assistance Policies
…Foreign Humanitarian and Development Aid, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015, states that Kuwait was ranked first among Gulf countries. However, it was ranked 14th out of…
Experts React: Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy
NSS Conflicts with Administration’s Original Pledge for Foreign Policy for the Middle Class Christopher Preble Senior Fellow and Director, Reimagining U.S. Grand Strategy Program The Biden administration came into office…
Testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on Water and Security in Southeast Asia
Statement of Richard P. Cronin Director, Southeast Asia Program Stimson Center, Washington, DC Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on Challenges to Water and Security in Southeast…
Trilateral Arms Control: A Realistic Assessment of Chinese Participation
…on Interests Alone,” Foreign Affairs, March 16, 2021, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-03-16/us-china-rivalry-battle-over-values; and Wang Jisi, “The Plot Against China? How Beijing Sees the New Washington Consensus,” Foreign Affairs 100, no. 4 (July/August 2021). …
Today’s Challenges Cry Out for New Approaches to US Security
…policy seems stubbornly fixed on autopilot, with a sprawling security apparatus postured for confrontation. The deep polarization of American society cannot be cured by foreign war, just as climate change…
Why Talk of ‘Regime Change’ Raises Lingering Ghosts of Humiliation in Iran
…humiliation and fear of foreign domination produced the slogan “Neither East nor West” as the foundational principle of the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. This motto emerged directly from a psychological…