As 2024 began, the Israeli war effort in the Gaza Strip changed in nature (see Israel Shifts Tactics in Gaza), with the focus shifting to the battles in the central and southern areas and to special ...

Biden’s calculation appears to have been that a US withdrawal was better for American interests worldwide and would not necessarily lead to massive civil war—and that even if it did, we would be well ...

This analysis was published in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune by Reuf Bajrović and Richard Kraemer, both affiliated with the US-Europe Alliance. Reuf Bajrović serves as Vice-President of the ...

When the Strait of Hormuz trembles, it is not only a region that wavers — it is the global economy holding its breath. Oil rises, markets react, and the consequences are felt everywhere: transport, ...

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.” —Winston S. Churchill The planners of the Israel Defense Forces came to view Israel’s main threat as emanating from ...

Recently, I was asked whether I might consider revising the book I wrote on the US-Israeli relationship entitled Doomed to Succeed. Turmoil in Israel, the most right-wing, religious government in ...

In this conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Michael Mandelbaum explores American exceptionalism, opposition to war, the limits of interventionism and the nuclear risks posed by weakening US alliances.

Climate finance is growing — but it won’t solve energy poverty unless we finance the diverse energy portfolios that developing economies actually need. When nearly 200 countries adopted the Belém ...

An avalanche rocked American politics last week. Across New York City, candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won closely-watched Democratic Party primary contests.

With the combined American and Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February 2026 the Middle East has entered a new strategic phase. Military operations, in this respect, were the continuation of events ...

Is the world actually becoming more peaceful? This proposition encounters widespread disbelief. After all, the United States and its allies have been repeatedly involved in messy local wars over the ...

Argentina’s Jewish community, the largest in Latin America and the sixth largest in the world, shared in the country’s rise to prosperity in the late nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century ...