Middle East
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 13, 2018
In a week of reversals, semireversals and blatant backtracking by some of the most powerful countries on earth, diplomacy showed its head-spinning underside in the United Nations Security Council, as three Western allies — Britain, France and the United…
- Irwin Arieff
- • March 7, 2018
Nikki Haley is appealing to the Palestinian people for “negotiation and compromise” in search of Middle East peace, denying that Washington is biased against them even as she warns their leaders that holding out will “lead to nothing but…
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Security Council
- Chris Gelardi
- • March 5, 2018
Martin Griffiths, the new United Nations special envoy for Yemen and a British international mediator, will begin work this month on a war that is called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Griffiths is highly praised in the arena of…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, UN Special Envoys
- Enrico Carisch
- • January 16, 2018
Citing an unpublished report of the United Nations panel of experts on Yemen, The New York Times said recently that Iran violated the Yemen arms embargo, according to UN experts. The same day, The Washington Post used essentially the same…
- Categories: Disarmament, Middle East, Security Council, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Enrico Carisch
- • January 11, 2018
With the Security Council’s unanimous vote to expand United Nations sanctions on North Korea on Dec. 22, President Trump appeared to add another high point to a victorious final week of 2017 based on his tax reform in United…
- Categories: Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Enrico Carisch
- • December 16, 2017
Why are the United States Department of Defense and the US ambassador to the United Nations acting as spokespeople for Saudi Arabia’s atrocious war against the religious Yemeni-Houthi minority? And why is Ambassador Nikki Haley throwing herself in front…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 14, 2017
Nikki Haley must have raised eyebrows at the White House with her bold off-the-cuff defense of the women complaining that Donald Trump sexually abused them before the election. “[A]ny woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any…
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2017
In Washington, there is no question that the State Department is in a weakened position, a situation that the Trump White House — and the Trump family — seem to relish. To some in the understaffed, stripped-down Foreign Service…
- Categories: Middle East, Nikki Haley Watch, Nuclear Disarmament, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 17, 2017
The study of violent extremism and what attracts people to become jihadists has been expanding rapidly in social sciences, but what is little known is why people avoid or leave a violent movement. It is a field that is…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Middle East
- Irwin Arieff
- • October 7, 2017
Will it never end? When will time run out on the array of shape-shifting militant Islamist movements intent on moving into shaky trouble spots around the world to impose their extreme ideology, harness the population and hijack the local…
- Categories: BOOKS, Libya, Middle East, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia is vehemently disputing a decision by the United Nations that it is to be named and shamed again for its violations of children’s rights in the Yemen war. The Saudis, who lead a regional bombing coalition against…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Middle East, Secretary-General
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • September 19, 2017
Can a rebuttal happen before an event occurs? United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took pre-emptive strikes against President Donald Trump in his speech at the opening session of the 72nd General Assembly, on Sept. 19, 2017. Rumors were rampant…
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 16, 2017
When Nikki Haley, now the United States ambassador to the United Nations, was questioned by senators at her confirmation hearing in January about how she would deal with Donald Trump’s dismissive view of internationalism, she said confidently, “I will…
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 1, 2017
As the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq crumbles, assessments begin to emerge of the damage left in its wake by its cultural nihilism and harsh sectarian absolutism designed to remake an Arab society. The human costs have been…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council, Terrorism, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 31, 2017
Striving to leave an indelible mark as president of the United Nations Security Council in August, Egypt proposed that an informal working group, focused comprehensively on sanctions regimes, should be set up to advise the Council. But one powerful…
- Categories: Africa, Geopolitics, Middle East, Security Council
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