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SPRING 2022
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After the War: A More Coordinated, but Still Divided, Gulf
The end of the Israel-U.S.-Iran war is unlikely to restore the Gulf to its prewar equilibrium. Instead, it leaves behind a region unsettled, recalibrating, and more internally complex than at any point since the 2017 Gulf crisis. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) may emerge with a stronger impulse toward coordination in the face of shared […]
Lebanon and Israel Have Opened a Historic Door. Washington Must Not Let Iran Shut It
What happened at the U.S. State Department was not a routine diplomatic encounter. It was a strategic moment of rare consequence. Lebanese and Israeli representatives sat down in direct talks under American auspices, breaking through a political and psychological barrier that for decades had seemed immovable. In a region disfigured by war, proxy violence, fear, […]
The war with Iran is forcing China to rethink its “Road and Belt” Initiative
President Trump’s decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, alongside Israel’s Lion’s Roar campaign against Iran, was driven by considerations extending far beyond the immediate threat that pre-war Iran posed to American interests in the Middle East and the rest of the world. It was also shaped by the broader strategic competition between the United States […]
