Michael Rubin, 1945
When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, posters went up across the country depicting a good Islamic family, with a mother, father, and seven children. He closed the shah's family planning clinics, reduced the age of marriage for girls to coincide with the onset of puberty, legalized polygamy, and raised the cost of birth control to be unaffordable for...
Kareem Shaheen, Newlines
Why is America hated more than Russia and China in the Middle East?
Christian Whiton, National Interest
The intial actions by the new administration are not encouraging.
Economist
s boris johnson flew northward on January 28th to try to persuade the Scots of the value of the union, the land beneath him seemed ready to break apart. Many unionists think the United Kingdom is bound to disintegrate. Brexit has loosened the bonds between the four nations. More than twice as many Britons think Scotland will get independence in ten years than think the country will hold together (see chart). Fewer than half say they'd be upset.
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Falling further into the arms of Washington does not amount to a post-Brexit foreign policy.
International Crisis Group
At the advent of President Joe Biden's tenure, the U.S. confronts numerous foreign policy problems old and new. His administration should discard failed approaches, such as over-reliance on coercion, as it works to craft policies in service of a more peaceful world.
A. Zaman, Al Mon.
Turkey's incoming ambassador to Washington has surprised observers by being a political appointee, but his perceived direct line to the Turkish president may prove a major asset.
Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures
For well over a year, Turkey has been projecting an image of itself that is out of sync with the reality at home. It invaded northern Syria, again, in October 2019; deployed troops to intervene in Libya's civil war in January 2020; threw its weight decisively behind Azerbaijan in that country's...
Anonymous, Politico
A proposal for a full reboot of American strategy toward China.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Mordechai Chaziza, The Diplomat
China's presence in Africa's smallest country is far more extensive than just a military base.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times
All the pieces are falling into place for a new era of US-China confrontation in the South China Sea under the newly inaugurated Joe Biden administration.
