Beyond Defense: The Strategic Case for an India-Israel Industrial Partnership
The India-Israel relationship is conventionally narrated through defence sales, intelligence sharing, and agricultural technology transfer. This framing, while accurate, is incomplete. It obscures a more consequential possibility: that the two countries’ most durable strategic convergence may lie in co-developing the technologies that will define 21st-century manufacturing: heavy electrical equipment, industrial automation, and robotics. Unlike defence […]
Encouraged by Anchorage. Deterred by Force
Twelve lessons on how (not) to fight evil Recently, Russia carried out yet another series of attacks on the cities all over Ukraine – from Lviv to Sumy and from Kyiv to Odesa killing dozens of civilians. In the village of Radushne in the central Ukraine one Russian missile killed three generations of a family, […]
When Nuclear Use Becomes Thinkable: Lessons from South Asia and the Middle East
The most consequential change in the nuclear order may be taking place without a weapon being detonated. Nuclear threats have become more frequent, while low-yield or “tactical” weapons are increasingly discussed as instruments for managing conventional conflicts. Intended to strengthen deterrence, such references are nevertheless changing how nuclear use is imagined. For more than eighty […]
What Rebuilding Actually Looks Like: A Lesson from a Renovation Hub in Western Ukraine
2026 marks five years of Russian aggression against Ukraine, Ukrainian resistance, and conversations about recovery. Much of the domestic and international focus on rebuilding Ukraine comes down to restoration and urban planning discussions: How many square meters of housing are needed? How many kilometers of roads? How can we return to what existed before the […]
PUTIN’S FINALE AND BEYOND
On February 24 Vladimir Putin began the fifth year of his disastrous war against Ukraine. It has sacrificed a million men killed or wounded in order to gain a fragile hold on only a fifth of Ukraine’s territory. It has crippled Russia’s flagship energy industry, depleted the National Wealth Fund and impoverished the Russian countryside, […]
LAW AND SURVIVAL
WHAT IF PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERS THE USE OF AMERICAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
WHAT IF PRESIDENT TRUMP ORDERS THE USE OF AMERICAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
With an executive branch now declaring it obligatory to follow presidential military orders without hesitation and threatening to prosecute American military personnel for respecting relevant law (the Uniform Code of Military Justice), it is high time to ask the most urgent question: “What if America’s designated military commanders receive a bewildering, incoherent or manifestly illegal […]
Removing the Houthi Threat to US Interests and Allies
One of the principal benefits of pursuing the war against Iran to the unconditional surrender of the Islamic Republic will be the end of the Houthi regime in northern Yemen. This regime represents a strategic Iranian foothold on the Arabian Peninsula. From Sanaa and the Yemeni highlands it has launched missiles and drones at Saudi […]
Iran Has Doubled Down on Digital Repression. How Can Washington Help?
As the Trump administration grapples with how best to confront Iran, its efforts remain centered on sporadic military action and the promise of aggressive economic sanctions. Meanwhile, inside the country, a human rights crisis is escalating—one that Washington is uniquely positioned to help counter. Over the past half-year, unprecedented attacks on the information space by Iranian authorities […]
Don’t Count out Netanyahu
Israelis head to the polls next month for their first parliamentary election since 2022. Polling varies, but many conclude that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces an uphill battle to stay in power. Analysts doubt whether he can pull it off. “Their prime minister is in real political trouble,” writes Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer of […]
Post-War Recovery? Without Economic Revitalization in the North and South, Israel’s Center Will Not Hold
A sustainable national recovery requires new financial solutions Nearly three years after October 7, the emergency has passed and the recovery has not arrived. Across the western Negev and the North, most evacuees have gone home to communities whose business base never came back with them. Emergency relief kept those communities alive. It did not […]
The AfD and Germany’s Democracy
The German left-leaning weekly DER SPIEGEL recently carried a mugshot of Ulrich Siegmund on its cover page with the caption “The Most Dangerous Man in Germany”. Campaigning as the “happy warrior” for the hard-right populist AfD party (Alternative fuer Deutschland) in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Siegmund cheerfully autographed the SPIEGEL cover, while thousands of his […]
Israel's Problems of Governance:
Perennial Causes and Political Context
Perennial Causes and Political Context
The State of Israel is not often associated with the persistent problems of governance that have beset many of its neighbors over the years. With a powerful military, a highly accomplished intelligence community (despite its catastrophic failure is), a well-respected judiciary (albeit under political siege by the present government), a thriving high-tech driven private sector, […]
