October 16, 2019
TurkeyThe latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Henri Barkey, CFR’s adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies, and Steven Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Midd…
November 12, 2019
Election 2020Each week between now and the Iowa caucuses, I’m talking with two experts with differing views on how the United States should handle a foreign policy challenge it faces. These special episodes are p…
January 1, 2007
United StatesSteven Pearlstein’s column “Public debt, private wealth” argues that surge in demand for US financial assets from emerging economies – and overwhelmingly from the governments of emerging economies, n…
July 22, 2019
Middle East and North AfricaAs the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. So it is with From the Potomac to the Euphrates. It has been a lot of fun during the last nine years, spanning I have lost count of how many…
June 12, 2019
IsraelThe country can’t form a government, its peace process is permanently stalled—and things have never been better.
May 22, 2019
TurkeyTurkish democracy can't die, because it never lived.
July 18, 2019
CybersecurityTech companies face intense scrutiny; viral FaceApp raises data privacy concerns; Huawei invests in Italy as pushback builds in the United States and UK; Indonesia announces a new digital tax; and us…
May 6, 2019
LibyaLoving Dictators Is as American as Apple Pie
July 3, 2019
North KoreaArms control and diplomacy are falling by the wayside as countries modernize arsenals and renew their focus on geopolitical competition.
April 16, 2019
EgyptIt’s time to hold Egypt accountable for the U.S. citizens it has unjustly victimized.