Diplomacy & International Relations

Israel Strikes Iran, With Steven Cook (Council on Foreign Relations)

Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss...

What did not happen at the G7 Summit in Canada (and why it matters) (Atlantic Council)

What didn’t happen sometimes matters more than what did. On Tuesday afternoon, the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Alberta, Canada, concluded, but US...

What comes next in the Iran-Israel war, from a US response to energy impacts (Atlantic Council)

As the 2025 Global Energy Forum convened on Tuesday in Washington, DC, just blocks away at the White House, national security officials were mulling...

Conflict Continues to Rage Between Iran and Israel and Casualties Mount (Soufan Center)

The conflict between Israel and Iran has continued to escalate, with Israel now claiming complete aerial superiority over western Iran, including Tehran, after eliminating...

Israel and Iran: A War with No Off-Ramp (Dalia Dassa Kaye – Just Security)

After several days of an intensifying Israel-Iran war, the death toll and destruction is mounting. Hundreds of Israeli strikes across Iran, beginning with a...

Russia’s Influence in Middle East Takes Hit From Israeli Strikes (Pavel K. Baev – The Jamestown Foundation)

Israel’s unexpected missile offensive on Iran on June 13 caught Moscow off guard, disrupting its assumptions about U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations and raising suspicions of...

How Xi’s ‘New National System’ Centralizes Innovation to Counter Tech Containment (Matthew Johnson – The Jamestown Foundation)

Since 2019, the Party has promoted the construction of a “new national system”—a centrally directed, institutionalized framework for mobilizing state and market resources to...

Too Soon to Rule Out Middle East Energy Disruption (Clayton Seigle – CSIS)

The Israel-Iran conflict escalated dramatically during the weekend of June 14–15, with both sides attacking each other’s energy infrastructure, yet oil prices have since...

Understanding Trump’s Decision to Approve the Nippon Steel Deal (Kristi Govella – CSIS)

On June 13, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order enabling Japanese company Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel after 18 months of...

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