The editors of the JST are pleased to offer for downloading the Fall 2025 print issue, with a special focus on the Trump Peace Plan for postwar Gaza, along with analysis of Syria, the Middle East and developments around the world.
Print Issue No. 15: Trump: The Peacemaker
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October 2025
Recent Articles
The Limits of Containment: The Gulf’s Strategic Recalibration in the New Middle East
Recent Iranian missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across the Gulf have transformed the regional strategic landscape. For years, Gulf states pursued a careful policy of de-escalation, economic modernization, and selective hedging among major powers in order to preserve stability and protect their development agendas. They were not the authors of war, but the […]
JD Vance and the Strategic Logic of Trump’s Foreign Policy
At a moment when the Middle East is once again compelling Washington to confront first principles—how to balance deterrence and diplomacy, force and restraint, leadership and prudence—Vice President JD Vance has emerged as one of the clearest interpreters of President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy vision. What Vance brings is not a break with Trump, but a […]
Michael Gfoeller: “A Post–Islamic Republic Iran Could Reshape the Global Balance”
Ambassador Michael Gfoeller, Founder of The Gfoeller Renaissance Foundation and former U.S. diplomat, analyzes in this interview with Jacob Heilbrunn the major geopolitical consequences of the war in Iran.According to him, the potential collapse of the Islamic Republic could pave the way for a post-Islamist Iran, deeply transformed by a generational shift and the growing […]
