Washington’s efforts to offload security responsibility to trusted partners were always going to be difficult. After all, burden-sharing and burden-shifting depend on capable and willing regional allies. New security architectures were inevitably going to be slow to form as Washington recalibrates its role and regional actors adjust to greater strategic responsibility. In the Middle East, […]
America’s Four-Partner Problem in Southwestern Eurasia
The Iran war cleared space for a new regional order. Making Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan work within it is the next challenge.
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