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Julianne Smith in the New York Times: “Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?”

October 12, 2018 | Opinion BERLIN — Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own hands.” In the face of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Hungary’s slide into illiberalism and an American president who viewed the European Union with disdain, Europe, she argued, needed a leader who could push forward reform and push back against [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:33:15-04:00October 12, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Dennis Ross in The Washington Post: “Saudi Arabia’s ruler should understand that the ends don’t justify the means”

October 11, 2018 | Opinion President Trump may not believe in a rules-based international order, but we may now be seeing the consequences of the absence of global norms. The Russians have no qualms about poisoning a former agent in Britain. Lately the Chinese have felt free to disappear or detain some of their most prominent citizens — from an Interpol chief to a leading actress — by extralegal means. And now it appears the Saudis may have lured journalist and [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:33:01-04:00October 11, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Dan Shapiro in The New York Post: “How to make Russia back off in the Middle East”

September 25, 2018 | Opinion For the first time in decades, Israel finds itself on the receiving end of Russian threats. The tensions follow the downing last week of a Russian Ilyushin IL-20 military aircraft, and the deaths of its 15 crew members, by Syrian air-defense batteries responding to Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments in Syria. A crisis like this one cries out for US diplomacy to help manage it. So far, there’s no sign of it. Two things have [...]

Rebecca Skoryanc2020-04-07T16:31:21-04:00September 25, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Antony Blinken in the New York Times: “The Best Model for a Nuclear Deal With North Korea? Iran”

June 11, 2018 | New York Times, Opinion Visitors to a future Donald J. Trump presidential library may find a whole section dedicated to his demolition of the 2015 Iran nuclear accord: “worst deal ever”; “horrible” and “one-sided”; “major embarrassment”; “defective at its core.” As Mr. Trump pursues North Korea’s denuclearization at the Singapore summit meeting scheduled for Tuesday, he risks being hoisted on his own hyperbole. By Mr. Trump’s own logic, any deal with the North has to be better, tougher, more [...]

WestExec2020-04-07T16:32:17-04:00June 11, 2018|Geopolitical Perspectives|