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President Obama obviously hasn't officially announced his new Afghanistan strategy, but as Matt noted on Thursday, leaks indicate that he is leaning towards an approach that would focus on...
The title of this post is actually somewhat misleading, since it implies that the Cairo-led Palestinian reconciliation talks have just recently broken down. It is true that in the past few days,...
I'd encourage readers to check out John Lee's article over at WPR that talks about the importance of getting Asian powers to "buy in" to the idea of a strengthened bilateral relationship between the U.S. and India. The article makes...
In responding to Andrew Sullivan's pontifications, Stephen Walt offers a few points as to why Israel has chosen to adopt a policy of strategic ambiguity regarding its own nuclear arsenal (everyone...
One of the things that has puzzled me about the Taliban’s advance through the the Northwest of Pakistan has been the general lack of alarm in mainstream Pakistani society. Starting perhaps most obviously with Pervez Musharraf’s decision...
I have nothing of substance to add to Michael Cohen's post on COIN. Not really my thing. Just a note on graphic design: When what you're trying to explain is so godawfully complex that the diagram you use to explain it looks like this, just skip the...
This would seem pretty self-evident, and for those who track the Arab press even more so, but a new Pew survey has Obama's approval rating in the Arab world hovering between about 15-30% (with the exception of Lebanon, which is a bit higher.) That's...
During a small class seminar at Brown University this week, I had a chance to engage with Bruce Riedel on the subject of American policy in Afghanistan/Pakistan. Riedel is a Senior Fellow at Brookings, a part-time adviser to President Obama, and a...
Watching Obama's speech last night I was disheartened in a way that's become all-too-familiar over the course of the past year. The thing that's been so maddening about watching the foreign policy of the current administration, which, while a vast...
