I think the willingness to endorse these normalization agreements in the White House setting was a dramatic expression of identification with Trump’s regional diplomacy in the Middle East and a formalized repudiation of Palestinian aspirations for a sustainable peace

Trump Induced Normalization Agreements with Gulf Monarchies:

Even in the unlikely event that all goes well procedurally, it is no time to gloat about the vindication of the American version of constitutional democracy

Just as the COVID pandemic came to the world as a shocking surprise, the post-COVID-19 era is likely to be an occasion for major surprises reminding us once again that the human condition is one of radical uncertainty

For relations among states having nuclear weaponry, stability is achieved by relying on various forms of deterrence combined with the implementation of the nuclear apartheid regime

An alternative view of the Israel/UAE Agreement is to view it as a Plan B that is designed to hide the provisional failure of the parties and the world to accept the Trump plan

The immediate future of the United States will likely be determined by the results of the November election

Thinking back to that weekend in Stockholm I marvel at how John Lewis reinvented himself, and rose to a position of moral preeminence and unsurpassed political wisdom and maturity

Such a state, analogous to a wounded animal, is a global menace of unprecedented proportions in the nuclear age

The Future of American Geopolitics