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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling in Bank Markazi v. Peterson concerns a mammoth sum of cash, and it has significant foreign policy implications. The obvious implications are the immediate ones—most immed...
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On April 24, the AP quoted North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong as having said in an interview:
Stop the nuclear war exercises in the Korean Peninsula, then we should also cease our nuclear tests....
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The Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee’s (HNC) withdrawal from the Geneva talks is fundamentally a reflection of the Obama administration’s failure to reach a clear agreement with Putin rega...
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Editor’s Note: What is a drone? Some do surveillance, others hunt terrorists, and some models likely to enter air forces are more akin to sophisticated fighter aircraft. Dave Blair, badass warrior intell...
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This week on the podcast, Benjamin Wittes and Cliff Kupchan talk about the future of U.S-Russia relations and to delve into the Russian intervention in Syria. Kupchan is the Chairman and Practice Head fo...
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AMMAN, Jordan—The Jordanian government is “between two fires,” as goes the Arabic formulation of “between a rock and a hard place.” Jordan has watched car bombs claimed by the Islamic State explode in Tu...
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Jack has highlighted his and Curt Bradley's excellent op-ed in the New York Times this morning explaining the negative consequences to amending the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to allow Saudi Arabia ...
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Chinese and American Military Leaders, Separately, Visit the South China Sea
USS Stennis (Photo: Reuters)
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Doha Fails to Deliver
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Curt Bradley and I have an op-ed in the NYT on the bill in Congress that aims to expose Saudi Arabia to lawsuits in American courts for its alleged connection to the 9/11 attacks.
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President Barack Obama was in damage control mode in Riyadh this week, while headlines in the United States warned of potential economic retaliation should Congress pass a bill that would allow Saudi gov...