JST WorldWatch

The American approach rests on incentives, integration, and long-term stability. The Iranian system operates through fear, ideological rigidity, and permanent confrontation. These are not competing strategies. They are incompatible visions of power.

Your Sunday probably wasn’t as good as Sanae Takaichi’s. The Japanese prime minister romped to victory in her country’s general election, which handed the Liberal Democratic Party its biggest majority ever in the House of Representatives.  President Donald Trump, who had endorsed Takaichi, sent his congratulations and called her “highly respected and very popular” in a social […]

Yemen has quietly become a testing ground—measuring how far hybrid actors can go in threatening American forces, disrupting global trade, and eroding deterrence without triggering decisive consequences.