A Key to Greenland’s Future Development
The Inter-American Development Bank should be central to the next chapter of Greenland’s development, with US backing. The island possesses enormous mineral wealth and significant port, road, and potentially digital infrastructure and energy infrastructure needs. Greenland’s development is tied to its importance to hemispheric Arctic security and missile defense; its people also maintain strong ties […]
The Crisis in Northeast Syria
The unfolding events in northeast Syria represent a profound tragedy, not only for the Kurdish people in Syria but for the broader quest for stability in the Middle East. Syria’s transitional government under Ahmed al-Shara’a feels empowered by increasing regional and global recognition and has interpreted this as carte blanche for forcible consolidation. Its forces […]
The Benefits of Removing Maduro
Making foreign policy is very often a compromise between supporting one’s values and securing one’s interests, between moral clarity and strategic realism. In removing Nicolas Maduro from power, Donald Trump was able to advance both American values and American interests. Maduro, in the name of “twenty-first century socialism,” crushed press freedom and political opposition. Amnesty […]
THE END OF PALESTINE
When the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of Palestinian statehood in September 2025, with only 10 against and 12 abstentions, it appeared that the diplomatic balance had tilted toward a Palestinian state. Yet nothing of substance followed – no borders of the Palestinian state were recognized for instance. This gap between rhetorical solidarity […]
Profiting from the Lessons of Iraq in Venezuela
Lessons learned from the US occupation of Iraq (from 2003 to 2011) should guide the aftermath of the US military intervention in Venezuela. The US now faces the task of temporarily administering Venezuela in conjunction with the regime whose head, Nicolás Maduro, awaits a criminal trial in New York. In Iraq, after Initial military victories, […]
Trump’s Africa Deal Threatened by Continuing Ethnic Hatreds
On December 4, 2025, President Donald Trump presided over a signing ceremony at the US Institute for Peace for a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio added that “we look forward to turning the agreements that we will be signing […]
Will Turkey Allow Syria to Rebuild?
Syria is at a crossroads. President Donald Trump’s vow to do everything he can to help the war-torn country offers it a golden opportunity to wave goodbye to its dictatorial past. Unfortunately, Turkey’s regional ambitions are threatening to derail Syria’s rebirth. One of the most striking features of post-Assad Syria is the speed with which […]
Hamas Restructures
According to Israeli military assessments, Hamas currently has no single figure currently holding the entire apparatus together. Israel’s elimination of the top tier has left a vacuum that the external leadership is rushing to fill. Hamas is in the final stages of an election process to select replacements for both Yahya Sinwar, the late head […]
A Sharp Right Turn for Chile
The resounding electoral victory on December 14 of conservative José Antonio Kast reflects the dissatisfactions of Chile, a country once poised to enter the ranks of the developed world but which in recent years has been stuck at the threshold. His predecessor, Gabriel Boric, made the mistake of believing that Chileans wanted a true “refounding” […]
Australia’s Reckoning with Strategic Failure
For more than two years now, a small number of Australians have warned that the country was drifting into dangerous territory: not through sudden radicalization but through a steady normalization of hate speech, blurring of moral boundaries and tolerance of rhetoric that often precedes violence. Those warnings were not abstract. They were made repeatedly across […]
High Stakes over Greenland
On January 6, six European leaders (France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain) expressed support for Denmark’s sovereignty over Greenland while noting that Artic security remains a “key priority” for Europe. The statement is surprising. For a long time, Europe has sought to avoid provoking President Trump. He has declared that US and NATO security […]
How Russia Turned Antisemitism into a Weapon
In the Soviet Union, antisemitism was not incidental. It was a tool of statecraft. That tool has been picked up again by Russia. In the late nineteenth century, the tsarist police fabricated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document that purported to reveal the inner workings of a Jewish plot for global domination. […]
