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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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April 26, 2013
United States
Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon, and America’s “Dirty Wars”
David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013, pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of s…
June 27, 2016
Israel
Israel and Turkey: No Big Deal
The recent announcement that Israel and Turkey are restoring full diplomatic relations is unlikely to signal the dawn of a new day in Israeli-Turkish relations.
March 1, 2016
Intelligence
Red Teaming Nuclear Intelligence: The Suspected Syrian Reactor
In former CIA and NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden’s new memoir, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, he describes the case of Al Kibar, in which Israeli officials informe…
January 10, 2018
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Is Annexation of the West Bank Already Here?
My recent piece at Salon.com raised some hackles with my friend, former intern, and occasional coauthor, Michael Koplow. Michael is the policy director at the Israel Policy Forum, and he also writes …
March 29, 2012
Israel
Middle East Matters This Week: A Syrian Peace Plan, An Arab Summit in Baghdad, and Iran Prepares for Nuclear Talks
Significant Middle East Developments Syria. A spokesman for UN special envoy Kofi Annan announced on Tuesday that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad accepted Annan’s six-point peace plan. Iran also an…
