New Atlanticist

What Can India Expect from the New Abnormal in US Foreign Policy?

By Gaurav Kampani

Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States not only poses a threat to the American liberal-constitutional democratic order at home, but it also threatens to end the international liberal economic and democratic order that successive US administrations have built and promoted during and in the aftermath of the Cold War. The […]

UAE’s Energy Strategy 2050 Embraces Renewables

The changing dynamics of the energy landscape have undeniable geopolitical implications, said the United Arab Emirates’ Energy Minister, Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei, noting that his nation has made great strides toward establishing regional stability through the development of clean energy. “In any geopolitical situation… you’ll find energy is either an enabler or an issue […]

Trump’s Travel Ban: A Self-Inflicted Wound

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald Trump’s executive order that prevents refugees from around the world and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States has triggered warning calls from critics about the damage it could inflict on US interests, values, and national security. “The ban not only provides fuel for the radicals, but it also […]

Trump’s Immigration Ban Will Have ‘Catastrophic Implications’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) sees order as a ‘gift’ to hardliners in Iran US President Donald Trump’s executive order that curtails immigration and the rights of refugees is illegal, has “catastrophic implications” for the United States, and is a “gift” to hardliners in Iran as it paints all Iranians as a security threat to the […]

A Call to Europe’s Leaders to Fight the Rising Tide of Populism

By Rachel Ansley

European leaders must address the economic factors that have contributed to the rise of populism in the West and cater to their constituents who have been on the losing end of globalization, said George Alogoskoufis, a former finance minister of Greece. Alogoskoufis contended that globalization is good for societies as a whole, but there are […]

Here’s Why the US-Mexico Energy Relationship is Important

By Robert F. Ichord, Jr.

While the US-Mexico relationship has been making headlines because of the political fallout from US President Donald Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for a border wall, it is important to consider Mexico’s role in global and regional energy markets as well as its energy relationship with the United States.  

In Astana, a Deal That Leaves Assad’s Power Intact

The ceasefire agreement recently negotiated by Russia, Turkey, and Iran preserves Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power, but the deal itself is significant because for the first time the key players, with the exception of the United States, have come to the table with an understanding that a political solution to the conflict is […]

Trump’s Wall Drives a Wedge Between the United States and Mexico

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for a border wall has plunged the US-Mexico relationship into an unseemly crisis, according to two Latin America analysts at the Atlantic Council. “It is a troubling development for a relationship that has few parallels throughout the world,” said Peter Schechter, director of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne […]

Can Trump’s Anti-EU Rhetoric Unite Europe?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chief Brexit negotiator, sees a silver lining While US President Donald Trump’s predictions that other member states, besides the United Kingdom, will desert the European Union (EU) are unhelpful, they serve as a wake-up call for the EU to set its house in order, according to a senior European official. […]

Astana Peace Talks: To the Victor Go the Spoils

By Nabeel Khoury

The Syrian peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, consecrate Russia’s primacy in Syria, launched with its entrance into the conflict in 2015, and extended with its ability now to convene peace talks and dictate terms. The outcome of the talks on January 23 also put on display the ascendant axis of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Lebanese […]