Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
And what New Delhi wants from Washington.
How could one imagine a post-war Ukraine? Stephen Wertheim is a Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He's been watching the war in Ukraine unfold. But for some time he's also been thinking about what and whether a stable peace can be achieved.
Washington may wish to be finished with the Middle East, but the Middle East is nowhere close to being finished with the United States.
The agreement to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is part of a broader 360-degree projection of hard and soft power designed to make Saudi Arabia a key player in the region and a pivotal one abroad with ties to all comers large and small.
Formal normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia has been a longstanding U.S. goal. The questions, though, are how much that normalization is worth in today’s climate, what Washington should be prepared to pay for it, and what it should receive in return.
The battle over Israel’s democracy may further inflame conflict with the Palestinians.
The global implications of Türkiye’s presidential election.
There is a simmering debate over whether the United States should seek to pull European states into its competition with China, or should instead reduce its leading role in the defense of Europe in order to prioritize security needs in Asia.
America will struggle to meet its global aspirations unless its leaders can make progress resolving its domestic controversies.
For communities around the world, especially in the global south, it’s been clear for decades that the neoliberal “Washington Consensus,” which emerged in the 1980s and focused on deregulation, privatization, austerity, and trade liberalization, was a predatory and destructive model.