Tag: USA

Is Turkey losing Washington? (Cengiz Candar, Al-Monitor)

Despite the longstanding alliance and close military partnership between Turkey and the United States, the relationship has always been troublesome. For some time now,...

Israel’s Lapid discusses Iran, Abraham Accords, US-Israel ties in Washington (Rina Bassist, Al-Monitor)

An unnamed State Department official said this morning that the United States is working to expand the Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and...

Blinken warns Iran ‘time is running short’ on nuclear deal return (Al-Monitor)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned “time is running short” for Iran to re-enter the landmark agreement that curbed its nuclear activities, adding the...

US envoy headed to Gulf to discuss ‘options’ on Iran’s nuclear program (Al-Monitor)

The lead US envoy on international negotiations with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program will head to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi...

Biden to meet Kenyan president as US weighs sanctions on Ethiopia (Al Jazeera)

US President Joe Biden is set to meet Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as war and a humanitarian crisis roil neighbouring Ethiopia. The meeting on Thursday...

US does not support normalising ties with Syria, Blinken says (Al Jazeera)

The United States does not intend to support any efforts to normalise ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or rehabilitate him until there is...

Post Afghanistan, US-Pakistan relations stand on the edge of a precipice (Madiha Afzal, Brookings)

With the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, Pakistan may have come closer to achieving its long-sought “strategic depth” with respect to its western...

Fed should keep labor markets tight for a more inclusive economy (Anthony Barr and Kristen Broady, Brookings)

The United States Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: maintain price stability and pursue maximum employment. A new strategy announced in August 2020 by Federal Reserve...

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains (Ömer Taşpınar, Brookings)

There are some countries where a single issue can explain pretty much everything that is wrong with its domestic and foreign policy. Turkey’s Kurdish...

Local and national leaders must organize themselves better to build back better (Alan Berube and Mary Jean Ryan, Brookings)

Congressional negotiations continue over the size and contents of the reconciliation spending package and its relationship to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (better known as...

Moving beyond the US–China Cold War cliche (Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver – East Asia Forum)

A bipolar world is emerging as the US–China rivalry dominates virtually every aspect of international politics. Bipolarity tends to exaggerate ideological hostility and encourages...

Antisemitism in the United States: A Critical Look at the Data, Monitoring, and Measurement (Tom Eshed, INSS)

A variety of government entities, law enforcement agencies, and civil society organizations—Jewish and non-Jewish—are engaged in tracking antisemitic incidents in the US. They maintain...

Defense Firms Pitch Arms, Gear to an Army Looking for Relevance in the Pacific (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Lockheed Martin will attempt to fire its new Precision Strike Missile 499 kilometers, roughly as far as Washington, D.C., is to Cleveland, in a...

The Biggest Lesson from the Army’s Connect-Everything Experiment (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Three weeks of data-crunching at Aberdeen Proving Grounds convinced one top Army combat-development leader that he’s seen the way of the future. The Biggest Lesson...

General Makes Case For Army’s Role In The Indo-Pacific (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The Army’s top officer in the Pacific is reminding people that the service’s capabilities and contributions as a land force is as important to...

How China Is Planning For a Tech Decoupling (Alex Stone, Peter W. Singer, Defense One)

Rising tensions between the U.S. and China and the recognition of a new kind of race for technological advantage has led Washington to tighten...