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Daniel Benaim

The End of the Israel Exception

The bond between the United States and Israel has remained extraordinarily close for three decades. The United States has remained in lockstep with...

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Andrew P. Miller

How Much Abuse Can America’s Allies Take?

Donald Trump’s rise was supposed to have upended the liberal international order. In his first term, Trump openly disparaged longtime European...

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Robert E. Kelly

Trump’s Power Paradox

In his first term as U.S. president and on the campaign trail for reelection in 2024, a variety of Donald Trump’s instincts were visible. One was...

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Michael Kimmage

What Syrians Want

A year after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria remains a country very much in transition. Much of its infrastructure is in tatters, and...

05.12.2025 20

Salma Al-Shami

America’s Magical Thinking About Ukraine

In August, U.S. President Donald Trump was disappointed when a meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a...

03.12.2025 30

Sergey Radchenko

Trump’s Middle East Order

The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite...

03.12.2025 7

Ray Takeyh

The India Trump Made

Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew...

02.12.2025 10

James Crabtree

Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest...

02.12.2025 4

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