U.S. Challenges in Lebanon and Syria
Few were the countries whose attention was not completely distracted by Egypt's events. Lebanon, a self-preoccupied small nation with endless political bickering, was halfheartedly...
A Rapidly Changing World
iF: Looking around the rapidly changing world, what do you see as the top foreign policy challenges abroad? DF: In the area of most rapid...
Regenerating U.S.-Turkish Relations in 2011
The controversial trajectory of Turkish foreign policy in the past eight years, not to mention the concurrent decline in Turkish public perceptions of the...
Iran: From Eschatology to 21st-Century Foreign Policy
The United States faces no greater foreign policy challenge than managing the threat from the jihadist regime in Tehran while also standing unequivocally with...
Unsettled U.S.-Israel Relations in an Unsettled Middle East
The United States and Israel are facing some very troubling and unsettling developments in the three largest Muslim countries in the Middle East. In...
Egypt at a Crossroads
While January's protests in Tunisia that ousted former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali signaled the beginning of the current wave of unrest spreading through...
The Problem with Pakistan
If the counterinsurgency (COIN) in Afghanistan is America's longest war, it is also among its more complicated. Insurgencies have their own sets of confusions,...
Latin American Challenges
"I think the United States sees everything upside down, at least part of the world," said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in an October 2010...
Winning the Long War
Retaking the Offensive Against Radical Islam Three years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, better...