Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities, a syndicated foreign affairs columnist at the Chicago Tribune and a foreign affairs writer for Newsweek.
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Very rarely do American presidents get policy wins in the Middle East. The region hasn’t been kind to the United States over the last thirty years. The signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty during the Jimmy Carter years and the U.S.-led military campaign against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War are two exceptions
The deaths of seven of José Andrés’s charity workers after an IDF strike is straining the US-Israel relationship
Twenty-one years ago today, the United States committed its worst foreign policy mistake in generations
You can’t really blame the Pope Francis for bringing up negotiations
By setting the bar too high, he will disappoint his constituents and embarrass himself for being hopelessly naive
What can the US do that would make actually much of a difference?
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With the exception of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico, it’s safe to assume that Europe is petrified about the prospects of a second Donald Trump presidency. As one European foreign policy analyst told the New York Times last summer: ‘It’s slightly terrifying, it’s fair to say.’ The terror meter went up a few notches this weekend, when Trump addressed
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The 28 January drone strike in Jordan that killed three American soldiers and wounded 40 more necessitated a US military response. Under no scenario was President Biden not going to retaliate. The question was how strong the retaliation would be. We now have the answer. Yesterday’s series of airstrikes against the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard
The most extreme moves on the table are an attack against Iranian vessels at sea or targeting Iran itself
Relations between the two countries have been hot and cold for years
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On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom launched two rounds of strikes against 72 Houthi targets in Yemen – a turn of events that is unsurprising given the joint statement issued to the Houthis a week prior, which read like an ultimatum. The Houthis have attacked civilian vessels in the Red Sea 27 times since 19 November,
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In the United States, presidential elections are rarely won or lost on foreign policy. Domestic matters like the economy, crime, and the overall state of the country are far more relevant to candidates. Even so, incumbents can’t allow the world to degenerate in front of them. Just ask Jimmy Carter, whose 1980 campaign against challenger
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington a year ago was a love-fest, characterised by standing ovations from American politicians, lavish praise from president Biden and a commitment to keep the aid flowing. His visit this week, however, occurred in a much different atmosphere. The politics of Ukraine aid have changed, with a growing number of
US-China relations have gotten worse since their last meeting, not better
In the Nation’s Service provides a blow-by-blow account of George P. Shultz’s seven years serving Reagan as the nation’s top diplomat
The implication was there: the US must step up because others simply won’t
The Gaza violence has scuppered what appeared to be a pending agreement
Most of the deal’s critics don’t seem to understand how this specific prisoner exchange agreement works
US forces are operating in more countries today than they did the months and years after 9/11
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We are still fifteen months away from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, but much of the world is already busy trying to decipher the results. With a second Donald Trump presidency in the realm of possibility, governments around the world are holding strategy sessions and informal conversations about how such an event would change U.S. foreign policy, impact their
