Responsible Statecraft

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In April 2024, an Israeli drone struck a humanitarian convoy in Gaza, killing seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen, the food relief organization founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres.

Arriving in the White House in 2021, President Joe Biden set about dismantling much of his predecessor’s foreign-policy agenda.

Israelis head to the polls on October 27 in a vote that will cast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing and religious allies against a motley crew of opposition parties.

After a four year truce, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have returned to open conflict in Yemen.

In a recent report, Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities called for the U.S. to end its formal security commitments to Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines and to withdraw nearly all of its forces in those countries to the Second Island Chain.

During the Cold War, the exclave of West Berlin, isolated in the middle of Communist East Germany, was regarded as one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for a conflict between the Soviet Union and the West.

Democratic lawmakers have begun planning their post-midterm investigations into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose tenure has been filled with controversy.

As President Trump appeared to accept an end to the Iran war by agreeing to the short-lived Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on June 17, many Republican senators were deeply alarmed.

American farmers are in crisis, facing rising costs, disrupted export markets, and mounting financial pressure.

A majority of likely voters in each of six key swing states — Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas — say they approve of measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel, according to a new poll released Wednesday by the Institute for Mi…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the United States deployed almost 5,000 troops to Poland, doubling the number that had already been stationed there.

During the ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States, the Arab Gulf states have borne the brunt of Iranian drone and missile strikes while incurring mounting economic costs.

These days, barely a week goes by in Europe without a drone sighting, a fire or a power outage being blamed on Russia.

A plurality of active-duty service members — 48% — oppose the military being used in the U.S.

The rise of right-wing governments in Latin America has reshaped the region's political landscape.

Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, endured a siege from 2015 to 2017.

Somewhere inside Iran, a network of activists exchanged messages about politics and news with an activist — nicknamed “Parsa” — on the messaging app Telegram.

In 2024, President Donald Trump won his second term and Republicans took control of the Senate by campaigning on “America First.”

Protests against widespread state corruption have flooded the Philippines in recent weeks, putting pressure on the leadership of a country that for years has been one of the United States’ closest military and commercial allies in Southeast Asia.

When the Senate returns to session after the midterm elections, it will face sharp debate over a highly contested Fiscal Year 2027 (FY2027) National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

As election day nears, two new polls show the Iran war has emerged as one of the most important issues shaping voters’ midterm decisions.

The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are being held in Bangkok this year against a backdrop of equal parts relief and dread.

Gadi Eisenkot, a leading Israeli politician hoping to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in elections later this month, pledged Thursday that he would “destroy Hamas’s military wing” within 18 months of taking office.

As the U.S. midterms approach, headlines regarding the Ukraine war are emerging at breakneck pace.

President Donald Trump, seeing the success of the U.S.

The Iran war was a central point of tension in Senate debates Tuesday night.

For myriad obvious reasons, President Donald Trump has so far resisted calls from Saudi Arabia to assist in its fight with the Houthis, even as the militant group has been striking — literally — at the heart of the Kingdom's oil and tourism industries all…

Writing for the Daily Mail in 2023, Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sardonically argued, “The Americans don't give us crucial nuclear secrets because they love little old England.

President Donald Trump likes to say he is "nine for nine" with the candidates he has backed in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Brazil's Oct. 25 runoff could make it ten.

On Friday, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos wrote to the U.N.

In August, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) publicly took credit for shaping “multiple provisions” now in this year’s defense policy bill, stating that many were “impacted by prior JINSA policy recommendations,” including “pro…

Britain is clamping down even harder on critics who consider Western foreign policy to have been a catastrophic failure.

Republicans could be looking at a major wipeout in the midterm elections.

In his recent “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 20% reduction to the number of general and flag officers, affecting an estimated 800 positions scheduled for January 1, 2027.

This article was republished with permission from the Arab Center Washington DC.

President Donald Trump traveled to Baltimore this week to announce a $7 billion deal with the defense tech firm Anduril to build autonomous submarines as well as components for the Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarines.

Let’s imagine a bit of “future history” in Ukraine.

The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission.

In September, as the media focused its attention on the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and the debates at the U.N.

Nationalists came out on top in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)’s October 4 election.