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August 14, 2020

A historic deal in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates and Israel signed a historic peace deal on Thursday. It’s a diplomatic breakthrough, as the UAE has become the first Arab Gulf state to normalize ties with Israel – which is one of the conditions for regional peace talks on an Israeli-Palestinian settlement. As part […]

How Sudanese Mercenaries Fuel the Conflicts in Yemen and Libya

August 14, 2020

Sudan is a country of contradictions. It has untapped natural resources and fertile land that could feed the entire Arab region. Yet the majority...

Daily Memo: Taiwanese Defense Spending, French Deployments to the Mediterranean

August 13, 2020

Taiwanese defense. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s Cabinet on Thursday proposed a more than 10 percent increase in defense spending. According to Taiwan’s de facto...

Hiroshima and Moral Revisionism

August 13, 2020

Last week marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the first of two strikes on the Japanese mainland that forever changed...

Daily Memo: Tensions in Northern Iraq, Budget Pressure in Russia

August 12, 2020

Tensions in northern Iraq. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad following Turkey’s drone strikes on Tuesday in Iraq’s northeast Sidakan region....

Vaccine Nationalism Is an Exaggerated Threat

August 12, 2020

Nationalism is all the rage these days. Following decades of globalization, the pendulum has begun to swing back the other direction, triggering fears that...

Daily Memo: Middle Powers and the Disempowered

August 11, 2020

Middle powers in the Indo-Pacific. On Tuesday, Japan agreed to lend Vietnam some $345 million to buy six Japanese maritime patrol vessels. Japan has...

The Geopolitics of the Belarusian Election

August 11, 2020

Belarus, whose recent elections are making waves throughout the media, has been a pending flashpoint in Europe for some time. The reasons for this...

Daily Memo: Belarus’ Election Results, Beirut’s Explosion Fallout

August 10, 2020

Belarus' predictable election results. The presidential election in Belarus ended, as expected, with a landslide victory for the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, who won 80.23...

Lebanon’s Breaking Point

August 10, 2020

Roughly this time last year, I spent a week in Beirut for field research. I was there to learn about drug markets, specifically how...

Daily Memo: Egypt and Greece Sign East Med Deal

August 7, 2020

Making moves in the Mediterranean. Following Turkey’s signing in November of an agreement with Libya’s Government of National Accord to delimit their exclusive economic...