Advertisements In my latest piece at Medium, I argue that while Joe Biden is correct to avoid using military force to aid Ukraine, sanctions are not a viable alternative as they have little hope of changing Russia’s behavior in the immediate and short term. I look at the history of sanctionsContinue Reading
Advertisements With this latest edition of the Cutting Through newsletter, I finally end the four-month hiatus I unexpectedly went on. Thank you to all of you out there for waiting patiently, and my apologies for the unexpected absence. Newsletters may remain irregular for a bit, but I expect to getContinue Reading
Advertisements Professor Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard recently wrote an interesting piece for Foreign Policy where he posed the question of whether the rest of the world might prefer China’s “world order” to that of the United States. As Walt poses the question, “Are theContinue Reading
Advertisements It’s already quite clear that the Joe Biden administration is focused–to the extent they’re paying attention to the Palestinians at all–on restoring the status quo ante that existed before four years of Donald Trump. Some may have thought that his anger at Netanyahu might have meant some sort ofContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Responsible Statecraft, I look at the implications of the United States moving Israel from its European command to CENTCOM, putting together with regional Arab states and advancing the formation of a coalition to confront Iran. I also look at how Saudi Arabia and Israel areContinue Reading
