The main entrance of NATO headquarters in Brussels is flanked by two somber memorials that serve as reminders of why we need ...

There are many paths to regime change in Iran. In 2020, two of us (Edelman and Takeyh) wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs in ...

Sometimes, the most crucial test of a powerful country involves not its strength but its judgment. The United States faces ...

The Middle East is teetering on the edge of a broad regional war. On June 12, Israel began a sustained bombing campaign ...

That means that the outcome of the war will depend as much on decisions made by U.S. President Donald Trump as it will on ...

Over three decades, the hard-liners who control Iran’s regime had built up what seemed like a formidable system of deterrence. They stockpiled ballistic missiles. They developed and advanced a nuclear ...

Israel has engaged in a protracted air campaign in Iran to achieve something no other country has ever done before: topple a ...

Russia has not rejected the idea of negotiations, but despite Trump ruling out NATO membership or U.S. security guarantees ...

Both Iran and Israel have signaled that they are willing to keep striking each other. Israel’s defense minister even promised ...

NATO also needs to change the distribution of leadership and responsibility within the alliance. For over 75 years, NATO has ...

Trump has also eroded trust in and goodwill toward the United States—and he has done so on live television. The most ...

STEVEN N. SIMON is Senior Research Analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the International Institute f ...