Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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The landmark agreement is far from a peace deal, but both countries now have vested economic interests in maintaining calm along their common border regions.
With Russia unable to act as key mediator, the countries are looking elsewhere for help.
Naftali Bennett’s historic state visit was a sign of progress—with caveats.
External pressure has never been effective in forcing the parties to abandon their core principles. Only a negotiated two-state solution has the potential to satisfy both sides.
The United States can play an important mediating role in conflicts, but it's only truly effective when the parties own their negotiations and engage with one another based on their own interests and motives.
A rights-based approach to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking must be balanced with the national interests of the United States, as well as those of the parties themselves.
With the United States shrugging off its erstwhile role as the world’s policeman, can anyone stop the fierce fighting now raging between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
The much-vaunted announcement that Bahrain will normalize relations with Israel, hot on the heels of the United Arab Emirates, has been greeted with excitement in Western foreign policy circles. But true stability in the region is a long way off.
Twenty years after Camp David, a one-time negotiator reflects on what was achieved at the historic presidential summit.
Far from being an unbiased mediator in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the United States has been part of the problem. Now it is time for other countries to step in.