President Trump’s July 23, 2018 all capitals tweet that Iran would ‘suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before’ if it again threatened military action against the United States reflects a turn toward a more aggressive U.S. Iran policy...
Pakistan, a nation plagued with serious political divisions and with a true ‘deep state,’ is holding elections on July 25. Only once in its 70-year history has Pakistan replaced its civilian government with another civilian government through an electoral process...
Donald Trump’s public rhetoric is unprecedented for a U.S. president. He routinely uses social media to personally mock world leaders, and in the case of North Korea and now Iran, openly threaten nuclear war...
Since 2014, much attention has been paid not only to the phenomenon of foreign fighters, but the fears around what would happen when those fighters returned home...
There have been two main elements of Russia’s campaign to interfere and influence the 2016 U.S. elections. The more clandestine was the hacking and theft of political party databases and email accounts...
On July 15, 2018, on the eve of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Israel conducted the latest of its increasingly frequent air strikes in Syria...
On July 17, President Trump read from prepared remarks in an attempt to minimize the blowback over his unprecedented performance the day before in Helsinki....
Less than four days after U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced federal indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers, U.S. President Trump met with Russian President Putin in Helsinki...
Since World War Two, a U.S. President’s visit to the United Kingdom has been relatively noncontroversial. Similar to many long-time diplomatic norms and partnerships...
The 2018 NATO summit in Brussels was unlike any other in the alliance’s 69-year history. ...
In a democracy, civil servants are meant to be apolitical, in the sense that their service spans the terms of presidents or prime ministers from various political parties, providing continuity and expertise in the running of a government....
‘Brexit’ chaos continues in the United Kingdom and the European Union. In June 2016, the referendum to leave the E.U. passed with a slight 52% of the vote and solidified a political and societal split in the U.K. that has only widened in the last two years...
In March 2018, British authorities raced to understand and address the brazen assassination attempt in the town of Salisbury of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia...
Even with a much-touted strong economy, the U.S. administration has still followed through with tariffs that appear driven more by domestic political concerns than economic analysis...
For the so-called Islamic State, the last few years have been ones of relentless military and territorial defeat, especially in Iraq...