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EXPERT Q&A: Turkey Eyes Challenges and Opportunities in Trump 2.0 Era

EXPERT Q&A – This week President Donald Trump spoke with his counterpart in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and there are reportedly plans in place for a visit of the Turkish leader to the White House [...] More

Singapore a Success? Yes, by Mirroring Obama

Much initial reaction to the North Korean - American Singapore Summit has been negative, with critics targeting the concessions made by President Trump including; a dramatic, public endorsement of [...] More

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Why Talks with the Turks Matter More Than Ever

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is in Washington for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. On the Agenda are a number of [...] More

The 2011 U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq: Relevance for Syria Today

Following the near destruction of ISIS in Iraq and in the U.S. “zone” in northeastern Syria, and then a call recently by President Donald Trump to [...] More

Pull Troops Out of Syria? Trump Has a Point

President Donald Trump is considering launching air strikes on Syria, if his own tweets are to be believed – an action that could show the value of [...] 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

The Iran Conundrum: Serious Containment Versus Stability

President Donald Trump put Iran on notice in October, declaring that the U.S. would counter the regime’s “destabilizing activity.”Iran isn't [...] More

Staying Together is Hard — But Splitting is Harder

This September, voters in the territories controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq voted overwhelmingly to declare [...] More

Serious Consequences of Halt in Visas Between Ankara and DC

On Sunday, the U.S. embassy announced the suspension of Turkish visa applications for the U.S., stating that “recent events…have forced the United [...] More

How to Get Regime Change Right

The U.S. has had mixed experiences attempting to establish governance, security, public services, economic activity, and political processes after [...] More

Rethinking the U.S. Alliance with Kurdish Fighters in Syria

As the ISIS “Caliphate” in Syria and Iraq faces annihilation in coming weeks, the U.S. must rethink relations with its highly problematic but [...] More