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President Trump & the Iran Nuclear Deal – A European Perspective
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Surviving Trump: Advice to Europe from an Obama Veteran
Cipher Brief network expert Michel Flournoy, former senior Obama administration defense official, offered advice to her former European counterparts [...] More
Pakistan Is Feeling US Pressure. Now What?
After a short trip to Pakistan last week, I return to Washington convinced that the Trump administration’s new coercive approach toward Islamabad is [...] More
The Saudis Want a Nuclear Program. The Israelis Are Concerned.
In an unexpected turn of events, the sequence of dramatically different policies of the Obama and Trump Administrations has exacerbated the problem [...] More
Turks in Afrin: How Does It End?
Turkey has had considerable military success in its two-month old campaign against the Syrian Kurdish militia in the northwest Syrian border province [...] More
How South Korea – and North Korean Intel Chiefs – Got Trump to Say Yes
The key to understanding the remarkable developments over North Korea in recent weeks is that the two Koreas have been working jointly to manage the [...] More
Awkward Family Dinner: Blunt Talk in Brussels Targeting Trump
BRUSSELS – European officials are still going through the stages of grief, more than a year after President Donald Trump was elected, stuck somewhere [...] More
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