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With former British Prime Minister Tony Blair having been appointed the Madrid Quartet’s Middle East envoy, some might suggest that he should use his clout and contacts to push for a final settlement of the historic Israel-Palestinian dispute. That would likely be a fruitless exercise that would...

On June 25, 2007 Senator Richard Lugar bluntly told the Senate that prospects that the current troop surge in Iraq “will succeed in the way originally envisioned by the President are very limited.” Shortly thereafter, Senators Voinovich and Warner offered similar critiques. However, the...

In today’s Middle East summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, incremental progress concerning a process that could lead to increased financing for the Palestinian Authority and a...

On Friday, June 15, 2007, Hamas triumphantly proclaimed its victory in the Gaza Strip. ''We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return,” Hamas spokesman Islam Shahwan declared. With the Gaza Strip now under the rule of Hamas, the issue arises as to whether Hamas will...

The latest round of violence between Hamas and Fatah signal the need for diplomats to consider decoupling the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With Hamas battling Fatah for control of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territories could well be on the way toward splitting into a largely secular West Bank...

Since the end of the Six-Day War forty years ago, many have asserted that Arab-Israeli peace can only be achieved if Israel returns to the borders that defined it prior to the onset of the 1967 war. To make their case, they cite United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 242 which calls for...

To date, United States policymakers have remained steadfastly agnostic on the issue of anthropogenic climate change. In keeping their faith of doubt, they have refused to even attempt to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. Binding caps on such emissions have been out-of-the-question. However...

On May 22, 2007, The Guardian reported that some U.S. officials have asserted that Iran is covertly building a relationship with Al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents aimed at launching a summer offensive to thwart the possibility of progress from the ongoing U.S. troop surge. In the face of such...

Among the most important foreign policy priorities likely to face the next U.S. President will be the task of rebuilding the eroding U.S.-Russia relationship. Russia is currently engaged in a policy of employing its diplomatic leverage to “counterbalance” the United States. In the future, if the...

With the failures of its first grand international project in Iraq having discredited Neoconservatism as a school of foreign policy, some Republicans might be tempted to lurch to a strict non-interventionist foreign policy. They should resist such a temptation. Neo-isolationism would only shift...