There is a familiar ritual in Washington’s foreign policy think tanks whenever two Middle Eastern states sign a memorandum of understanding, launch a joint economic […]
Author: Leon Hadar
The Iran off-ramp Trump keeps driving past
Five months into what historians will likely call the 2026 Iran war, Washington finds itself in a posture it has occupied before, in Vietnam, in […]
Israel in a post-US hegemonic Middle East
For over four decades, Israeli strategy has rested on an assumption so basic it rarely gets stated out loud: that the United States would remain […]
The Middle East after the American imperium
For three-quarters of a century, the Middle East operated inside an American frame. Washington was not the only actor, but it was the reference point […]
An unwinnable standoff at Hormuz
Five months after Israel and the United States launched strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and ignited a wider war, the Strait of Hormuz has […]