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Challenges 2019 will bring for the Arab world

It has only been a few days since the New Year fireworks lit up the skies of many of the world’s cities. For a brief moment, it was possi...

Strategic Shocks: Readying for Reaction

Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute is pleased to launch the new year with the next entry in our "Four Minute Foreign Policy," se...

Only the Libyan people can build a brighter future for their country

Few people in Washington are as knowledgeable about Libya as Jonathan Winer, who was the United States special envoy to the country from ...

Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran's Advantage in a Turbulent Middle East

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs. View it here. Over the last seven years, social upheav...

Iran Among the Ruins: Tehran’s Advantage in a Turbulent Middle East

Over the last seven years, social upheavals and civil wars have torn apart the political order that had defined the Middle East ever sinc...

Art of Diplomacy Lecture Series: A Discussion with Ambassador Eric Edelman

Ambassador Eric S. Edelman retired as a career minister from the US Foreign Service on May 1, 2009. He has served in senior positions at ...

New Challenges for the Refugee Regime

Experts gathered at the Washington, DC campus for a discussion on the consequences of President Trump’s executive order, “Protecting the ...

Securitizing Climate Change for Better Governance

The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks report produced a risk interconnection map that charts out an increasingly integrated and ...

How to Help the Syrians Who Want to Return Home

A Syrian refugee in Lesbos, Greece. CreditYannis Behrakis/Reuters This article was originally published on January 12, 2016 in the Opinio...

Debating Russia's Aims in Syria

There is a debate within U.S. policy circles about Russian president Vladimir Putin's strategy in Syria. While all agree that Putin inter...

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