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The Russian War On Terror |
By Ilan Berman, The National Interest, November 3, 2017 |
Which country ranks as the largest source of foreign fighters for the Islamic State's "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq? |
President Trump Takes A Wise Middle Course On The Iran Nuclear Deal |
By Ilan Berman, Orlando Sentinel, October 20, 2017 |
In his policy speech last Friday, President Trump did not scrap the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, as some prominent conservative thinkers had suggested he should. Nor did he simply leave the deal intact, as proponents of the agreement had previously counseled. Instead, the president charted a middle way intended to give America greater leverage over Iran's nuclear program and processes. |
Trump Takes Aim At The IRGC |
By Ilan Berman, Al-Hurra Digital, October 18, 2017 |
You wouldn't know it from the media coverage surrounding President Trump's October 13th speech on Iran, but the most notable element of the Administration's new, "comprehensive" strategy toward the Islamic Republic isn't its plan to revisit the 2015 nuclear deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). |
A Setback For Peace Prospects |
By Lawrence J. Haas, U.S. News & World Report, October 17, 2017 |
Perhaps United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to congratulate him on the new unity deal between Abbas' Fatah Party and the terrorist group Hamas, simply didn't know what Hamas had said about it a day earlier. |
Prague's Eastward Turn |
By Ilan Berman, U.S. News & World Report, October 10, 2017 |
Since its emergence from the wreckage of the Soviet Union more than a quarter-century ago, the Czech Republic has consistently ranked as a success story of post-totalitarian transition. Unlike that of many of its neighbors in Central and Eastern Europe, Prague's path toward democracy has been more or less linear, cresting in the middle of the last decade when the country garnered the ranking of "full democracy" from the prestigious Economist Intelligence Unit. Today, however, Czech democracy is showing signs of erosion, while the country as a whole is in the process of making an alarming eastward turn. |
Could Spain Go The Way Of Yugoslavia? |
By Svante E. Cornell, The National Interest, October 5, 2017 |
In recent years, the European Union has been bogged down by one crisis after another - from Greece to the Euro to Brexit. But happily, none of these have endangered what has underpinned European integration since the late 1940s: securing lasting peace among European states. Europe has not been spared political violence, as residents of Northern Ireland and the Basque country can attest to. But to almost all Europeans, the notion of armed conflict within their midst is no longer even thinkable. While the Catalonia crisis is not destined to degenerate into large-scale violence, European and American leaders do not appear to take the potential for conflict seriously. They are mistaken. |
Defending The Indefensible |
By Lawrence J. Haas, U.S. News & World Report, October 3, 2017 |
Like an all-too-proud father rejecting a teacher's legitimate criticism of his child, former Secretary of State John Kerry is defending the U.S.-led global nuclear agreement with Iran that he engineered from the legitimate concerns of Iran-watchers in the Trump administration, Congress and the private sector. |
Political Power Is Dividing a Germany That Was Once Unified |
By E. Wayne Merry, The National Interest, October 2, 2017 |
All politics may be local, but the German national election reflected major trends in the political culture of a country at the center of both the European Project and the Transatlantic relationship. These trends need to be understood by Americans who casually assume that Angela Merkel won again. In fact, her party received one vote in three, hardly a mandate. More broadly, the election demonstrated the continuing fragmentation of political power in unified Germany, the sustained alienation of its eastern population from the political cultures of both Germany and Europe, and the increasing delegitimization of German political and economic elites. |
Why Trump Will Not Allow The Iran Deal To Stand |
By Ilan Berman, The Hill, September 29, 2017 |
Those who support the Obama administration's landmark nuclear deal with Iran are nervous, and for good reason. In his Sept. 19 address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump gave what was perhaps the clearest signal to date that he has no plans to recertify the agreement (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) next month, as mandated by Congress. |
Kim Would Regret War |
By James S. Robbins, U.S. News & World Report, September 27, 2017 |
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un seems bent on making it easier for the United States to go to war. If he draws first blood, it may be the last thing he ever does. |