Columns
May 2022
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the Re-Pharaonization of Egypt
What do the following events have in common? A new capital is being built in Egypt —“the Administrative” (al-idariyyah) for...
Columns
May 2022
It’s All About Resilience
In recent years, among scholars of war, there has been a growing consensus that nonmilitary factors have an increasing...
East Mediterranean
May 2022
Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Eastern Mediterranean is on the frontlines of a struggle for peace and economic development at a time when maritime...
Essays
May 2022
The Attack on Abu Dhabi
Three global hot spots are developing in early 2022. In Europe, the crisis in Ukraine overshadows all else; in the Far...
East Mediterranean
May 2022
Shifting East Mediterranean Tides: From Conflict to Club Med?
We are now in the midst of a transition in the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean: away from conflict and toward...
Essays
May 2022
To the Middle East and Beyond!
After decades of limited contact, Israel is connecting with its region at the strategic level. It seems safe to assume that...
China
April 2022
New World Disorder
The latest battle zone in the Russia–Ukraine war was in the quiet, mostly mannerly halls of the United Nations. There, in...
Columns
April 2022
Alternative Views in Intelligence Analysis
It is mid-July 1958, and the Middle East is on fire. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion calls in the US ambassador and tells...
A Profile in Policy
April 2022
The David of Ukraine
“Of two bad people, you choose the lesser evil. And you do that for 25 years in a row. And you know what’s interesting?...
Columns
March 2022
The Great Washington Divide Over the Defense Budget
Vladimir Putin did what was seemingly impossible: He united Democrats and Republicans against him. The war in Ukraine also...
