Washington is discovering the hard way that shuttle diplomacy can’t force an end to the war in Ukraine just by leaning on the immediate combatants.Read More »Washington’s Ukraine Strategy Has a Missing Piece

The digital iron curtain is dropping, and Washington wants the rest of the world to fall in line behind it. According to a leaked StateRead More »The AI Cold War: Washington Wants the World to Choose Sides

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst The latest UN Security Council monitoring report basically demolishes whatever diplomatic illusions were still hanging around about theRead More »The UN Report: Inside the Afghan Taliban’s Terror Web

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst   The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan on August 7,Read More »Beyond Washington: The Rise of the Mecca Pact

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst The network of regional allies at the core of Iran’s foreign policy traces back to the upheaval ofRead More »The Future of Iran’s Defense Strategy

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that what you do speaks so loudly he couldn’t hear what you wereRead More »Indonesia’s Palestine Stand: Principle or Convenient Hypocrisy?

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst For eight decades, the doctrine governing nuclear weapons rested on a terrifying but pretty simple truth. Any atomicRead More »Is the US Preparing for Tactical Nuclear War?

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst There’s an old line that trust is built in drops and lost in buckets. Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy has spentRead More »Can the Gaza Peace Deal Survive History?

By Adam Reed | International Affairs Analyst There’s an old saying that fits this moment almost too well, the bigger the hammer, the more everythingRead More »The War of Hormuz: Is Trump Running Out of Options?