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IranSource

Jan 3, 2018

The Missing Table: Learning from Iran Negotiations to Solve North Korea

By Tarja Cronberg

“North Korea must earn its way back to the table. The pressure campaign must and will continue until denuclearization is achieved.”

New Atlanticist

Jan 3, 2018

Afghanistan’s First All-Female TV Network Presses Society’s Buttons

By Teri Schultz

Life for women in Afghanistan has seen many advances since the end of Taliban rule, but the country still ranks poorly when it comes to gender equality. Spousal abuse and child marriage are rampant, while the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to handle complaints from women. Societal silence on these issues compounds the cultural cage […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Jan 2, 2018

A New French Renaissance

By Nicholas Dungan

Just as Queen Elizabeth II offers her yuletide greetings to the British people in her Christmas Day broadcast each December 25, so, tradition goes, the president of France presents his New Year’s wishes to the French people on December 31. Emmanuel Macron’s speech on the last day of 2017 was his first New Year’s address. […]

France

SyriaSource

Jan 2, 2018

Protecting Syrian Civilians: The Road Not Taken

By Frederic C. Hof

During 70 months of chaos in Syria, the United States had protected not one Syrian civilian from the homicidal rampages of Bashar al-Assad and his remorseless regime. Yes, America had come militarily to the aid of Syrian Kurds besieged by ISIS (ISIL, Daesh, Islamic State). Yet the United States had protected no one in Syria […]

Syria

New Atlanticist

Jan 2, 2018

Iranian Habit of Demonstrating Boomerangs Against the Government

By Barbara Slavin

For forty years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has encouraged, even demanded, that its citizens participate in mass demonstrations. Repeatedly, however, Iranians have taken to the streets not to praise the regime, but to protest its policies. The latest protests began December 28, in Mashhad, a conservative city and home to a major Shi’ite Muslim […]

Iran

New Atlanticist

Jan 2, 2018

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Protests in Iran

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Iran has been rocked by the most significant protests in almost a decade. At least twenty people have been killed. Amir Handjani, a senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and a Council board member, discussed the reason for the protests, the Iranian government’s response, and how US President Donald J. Trump should […]

Iran

UkraineAlert

Jan 2, 2018

Nine Things Ukraine Should Do in 2018

By Olena Prokopenko and Christina Parandii

In September 2017, Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy branded the new political season “the autumn of reforms.” His prediction was partly right and partly wrong. Parliament did deliver on some overdue issues; however, the recent attacks on anticorruption institutions overshadowed a number of positive achievements. As Ukraine enters 2018, a year which precedes the presidential and […]

Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Jan 2, 2018

Which Will Be Europe’s Poorest Country? Ukraine or Moldova

By Anders Åslund

A year ago, I expressed my hope that “2017 should be the year when Ukraine’s economy takes off.” It should have been, but it was not. In the last quarter of 2016, Ukraine’s GDP grew by 4.8 percent. Alas, in each of the ensuing four quarters, the growth rate declined and GDP grew by only […]

Moldova Ukraine

IranSource

Jan 2, 2018

Iran Protests Signal Deep Discontent but No Clear Pathway to Redress Grievances

By Sina Azodi

In the past few days, many cities across Iran have witnessed the most serious anti-government demonstrations since June 2009, when millions of people came to the streets to protest the results of fraud-tainted presidential elections. More widespread geographically if smaller in size, the demonstrations signal growing economic and political discontent within Iranian society and pose […]

New Atlanticist

Jan 1, 2018

100 Years Later, Wilson’s Fourteen Points Deserve Another Look

By Daniel Fried

This January 8 marks the 100th anniversary of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech, a foundational moment in America’s rise to define and lead a rules-based world order. Wilson has not been in fashion for some time: his political rigidity at the end of his career probably tanked Senate acceptance of the League of Nations, […]

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