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The Transatlantic Alliance Isn’t Dead. Treating It That Way Could Make It So.
The transatlantic alliance is increasingly described today in terms of decline, rupture, and even collapse.[1] Political leaders and commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have openly questioned whether the relationship can endure in its current form. From warnings that it is “broken” to claims that it is effectively “over,” the narrative of a fading […]Explore all Articles
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Aleppo and Mosul: What’s next?
02.28.17
JMEPP speaks with Gregory Aftandilian on the devastating battles for Aleppo and Mosul -and what’s next for Syria and Iraq.
Iraq: From dictatorship to what?
02.18.17
Fareed Yasseen, Iraq’s ambassador to the US, is optimistic about defeating ISIL – but sees several structural threats to Iraq’s stability.
Israel-Palestine: Can Trump seal the deal?
02.13.17
Trump prides himself on his deal-making abilities, but securing “the ultimate deal” between Israelis and Palestinians presents major challenges.
President Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy
02.6.17
BY ALI WYNE If one takes stock of the present disorder in world affairs, the verdict on President Barack Obama’s foreign policy would seem self-evident: it was a failure. Critics would adduce a long litany of examples—the weakening of transatlantic ties, the disintegration of the Middle East (with particular focus on the horrors that have […]
Trump’s Executive Order Attacks the America I Know and Love
01.30.17
BY SHANOOR SEERVAI In this moment, America is not mine. It cannot be—it is not like anything I have seen. I came here in 2007, one year before Barack Obama was elected our president. Our president, because America was mine then. Not mine in passport—I’m an Indian citizen—but in what I believe is worth fighting […]
Iraq’s Kurds should play their Trump card
01.29.17
Iraqi Kurds’ desire for an independent state may finally meet with US support now that Donald Trump is president.
Why the world ignores Yemen: A conversation with Afrah Nasser
01.27.17
JMEPP spoke with Yemeni journalist and blogger Afrah Nasser about media coverage of the Yemen war, and what lies ahead for the country.
To Assad and his admirers, Trump offers ‘hope and change’
01.24.17
Donald Trump has vowed to end US support for Syrian rebel groups, delighting backers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Smuggling and security on North Africa’s broken borders
12.23.16
North Africa’s troubled borders are havens for smuggling and armed groups. Here’s what can be done to make them more secure.
Russian ambassador’s assassination: A diplomatic disaster for Turkey?
12.20.16
Russia’s ambassador to Turkey has been killed at an event in Ankara, by a man chanting Islamist slogans and the words, “Don’t forget Aleppo!”
Interview with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman
12.15.16
Tawakkol Karman, the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, spoke with JMEPP about women’s role in the Arab Spring and the future of her country, Yemen.
Turkey’s long road to repression
12.12.16
Erdoğan has revealed himself to be the Turkish embodiment of what we in Europe and the US can now appreciate up close: populist, far-right politics.
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