Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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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.
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.
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.
What has happened in Israel these many months has shown the power that people possess to safeguard their democracy when threatened.
Since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005 to escape the burdens of an occupation, the Israel Defense Forces have undertaken no less than 15 significant military operations. Indeed, an even more threatening Israeli-Palestinian conflagration looms.
Donald Trump was right about Americans’ disenchantment with the existing foreign-policy establishment. The United States desperately needs a renewed global approach that is both more responsive to the American people’s needs and does not simply export violence and poverty onto the rest of the world.
Unlike the United States, which has three branches of government with shared and separated power, Israel only has two. The only way to contrast parliamentary power is through the judiciary.