Ilan Berman

“The situation in Iran is dire” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. But in the short run Iran’s health crisis may strengthen the ruling ayatollahs’ grip on power, said Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council. In the long run, the effects of the illness could stimulate a shift in […]

Ilan Berman Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council and authority on Russian foreign and security affairs, will address Russia's aims in Syria and relations with Iran, as well as the Russian response to American policy in the Middle East. Berman is the author of Implosion: The End of Russia and What [...]

The next American president will inherit a world on fire. Whoever ends up winning the presidential election in the Fall of 2016 will enter the Oval Office facing a range of pressing—and difficult—global problems. How he or she will address them will determine America’s place in the world for much of the decade to come. […]