Essays
August 2021
The Abraham Accords and the Talking Stick
For much of the last decade, I served as the commander of the US Navy Sixth Fleet and Allied Joint Forces in the...
Essays
August 2021
Diplomatic Innovation and Civil Society
Introduction
In September 2006, a few weeks after the end of the Second Lebanon War, a small group of Israeli...
Essays
August 2021
New Energy Dynamics: OPEC, the US—and the EastMed
As global commerce reemerges from the pandemic, new patterns of energy consumption, supply, and sourcing are becoming...
Essays
August 2021
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
In 2011, Vice President Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and later reported that he told Putin that he...
Essays
August 2021
Dealing with the New Turkey
Turkey has become an increasingly central player in Eurasia; at the same time, it remains a cipher. Its assets are...
Literature
August 2021
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama. Crown, 2020, 751 pages.
Barack Obama’s election in November 2008 was a landmark event in recent...
Afghanistan
August 2021
Biden’s Afghanistan Mistake
The full ramifications of the poorly managed US withdrawal from Afghanistan—and the subsequent rout of the Afghan National...
Essays
August 2021
President Biden and Israel
Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden knew he needed to tackle a number of critical issues. There was,...
Essays
August 2021
The Two-State Solution Imperative
The past two centuries have been witness to many seemingly intractable global problems for which solutions seemed out of...
Essays
August 2021
No, You Can’t: The Prospects of a Two-State Solution
It is not often that a top-ranking official shares with his readers the strategic assumptions of his time in office with...
