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Aug 7, 2019

How the Trump Administration can solve its Iran problem

By Atlantic Council

For The Hill, Dr. Mathew Burrows, Director of the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and his Research Associate Julian Mueller-Kaler argue that when circumstances change, strategies need to change, too. They advocate for an approach that would be nothing less than a complete change of U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East.

Iran
Middle East

In the News

Jul 21, 2019

Ahmad in The Hill: The 3 Keys to Peace in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan
Security & Defense

In the News

Jul 8, 2019

Ben Mahfoudh quoted in AFP: Tunisia defuses bombs of Libya warplane forced to land

North Africa
Terrorism

In the News

Jun 3, 2019

Lipner quoted in The Wall Street Journal on Hamas testing Israel

Israel
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

May 20, 2019

The Christchurch call and the failure of US leadership

By Emerson T. Brooking

The United States’ snubbing of the document represents a retreat from previous counterterrorism pledges. It also reveals a dangerous divide between the White House and US allies regarding the growing threat of white ethno-nationalist extremism.

Disinformation
English

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2019

Policing terror finance in an era of great competition

By Michael B. Greenwald

The United States' sanctions strategy is increasingly burdened by the involvement of systemically important financial institutions and sovereign investors in global financial statecraft.

China
Economic Sanctions

In the News

May 7, 2019

Lipner quoted in The Times of Israel on US Response to Israel-Hamas ceasefire efforts

Israel
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

In the News

May 7, 2019

Lipner quoted in The Washington Post on violence in Gaza

Israel
Security & Defense

Inflection Points

May 5, 2019

Terrorism’s lethal turn

By Frederick Kempe

What’s growing clearer with each day is that the United States and its allies will likely have to contend with extremist, Islamist terrorism for perhaps decades to come.  

South Asia
Terrorism

SyriaSource

May 1, 2019

In Syria, Trump claims victory but ISIS remains

By Frederic C. Hof

US President Donald Trump’s December 2018 tweet announcing the withdrawal of American military forces from Syria has inadvertently invited ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh, Islamic State) to resurrect itself. Even though American officials have walked-back the presidential decree, the president himself has signaled no enduring or enthusiastic support for the essential, victory-sealing stabilization of areas liberated from ISIS.

Extremism
Syria

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