Harvard International Relations Professor Stephen Walt offers his take on what the Saudi arms deal means for U.S.-Iran policy. While pundits have suggested that the deal might signify a shift in the Obama administration’s posture from preventing Tehran from acquiring… Continue Reading
(Updated below with MJ Rosenberg’s take.) For those who lament the utter lack of any compelling television discussion about foreign policy, particularly about U.S.-Iran relations, there was actually a very engaging conversation yesterday on MSNBC. On the Dylan Ratigan Show,… Continue Reading
One and a Half Cheers for American Decline The Future’s Not Ours — and That’s Good News By Tom Engelhardt Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Compare two assessments of the American future: In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in… Continue Reading
In the Babylon and Beyond blog at the Los Angeles Times, Borzou Daragahi floats an interesting theory on a potentially explosive story that appeared at the website of the Iranian newspaper Javan — only to be retracted with an apology… Continue Reading
Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute scholars have been busy over the past week calling for the Obama administration to punish Russian, Chinese and Turkish companies which continue to do business with Iran. But FDD fellow, Weekly… Continue Reading