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Since early in the Covid-19 pandemic, would-be prophets (most of them not infectious-disease epidemiologists) have been predicting that it would soon burn itself out as people recovered from the disease and developed immunity. So far ...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has climbed back on his favorite economic hobby horse, resuming his quixotic charge against high interest rates. This augurs ill for Turkey’s economy, which has historically paid a large price for the ...
Four years after his shock victory, U.S. President Donald Trump seems to be running on empty. Opinion polls predict a win for former Vice President Joe Biden. In some Democratic circles, the word “landslide” is ...
Turkey’s adventurist-in-chief. In 2010, Turkey’s “Zero Problems” foreign-policy doctrine was the marvel of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country was using diplomacy and commerce to develop ...
Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is grappling with successive crises among his country’s neighbors. It’s an unwelcome test of Moscow’s role as ...
Behold the mighty European Union, second only to the U.S. in economic heft. But also witness what a minnow it is in world diplomacy. Is it any wonder the world’s hard-nosed autocrats and nationalists, practitioners of ...
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For Emmanuel Macron, the moment of truth is approaching at a rate of knots. The French president has again fired off rhetorical broadsides at his Turkish counterpart over the crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean. But ...
It’s easy to dismiss the recent Turkish uproar over a Joe Biden video as political theater. The video, from a conversation between the Democratic presidential candidate and the New York Times editorial board, is eight ...
The Israeli-Emirati commitment to normalize relations, brokered by the U.S., obviously stands to benefit all three parties. But what will the agreement mean for Middle Eastern countries whose signatures won’t be on it? The Palestinians, apparently ...
Tunisia’s president has taken on near dictatorial powers. Democracy’s survival is in the hands of the largest labor union and the military. Amid Tunisia’s political upheaval, it is easy to hear echoes of the events in Egypt eight years ...