Why the Mecca Pact Is Not a Sunni NATO
The three signatories have distinct national interests, nuanced relationships with Iran and the United States, and different ambitions for the region. The
Reason-Vision-Virtue
Just War Theory after Nuclear Weapons
Inspired by Pope Leo’s encyclical, some have gone a step further, concluding that the time has come to lay the just war
Iran is Overplaying its Hand
Several paths remain possible from here. Trump could ultimately accept another flawed agreement that leaves Iran stronger over the long term. An uneasy stalemate
What should replace the American-led world order?
Multipolarity must be understood as more than a fall from the American order into disorder. It could become a scramble for domination
The UN returns to Damascus at the edge of reconstruction
The question that haunts Damascus this July is not whether Syria can transition. It is whether the international community has the patience,
The Middle East after the American imperium
The question for American policymakers is not how to restore the old frame. It is whether Washington can define a narrower set
Israil is Silent
But who will get the last laugh? Has anything changed, beyond the perception that this is a war between Iran and the United States?
An Unlearned Lesson: The Sorry Record of Regime Change Operations in the Middle East
What, then, is the right path forward for Washington? The prospect that Iran will capitulate is unlikely, and, given the results to
The American Prison
At this moment of reckoning, unless humanity once again proves capable—as it has at critical junctures in the past—of generating its own
We became the late 18th Century British. What now?
As James Wilson noted in a 1774 pamphlet, the obedience owed to the king had followed from his protection; without that, there