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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Ravi Agrawal |Daniel Kurtzer |Aaron Miller
Donald Trump’s second term as president has begun at a furious pace. From a flurry of executive orders to dramatic changes on key issues such as alliances and trade, it’s fair to say the new White House is upending a decades-old consensus on Washington’s role in the world. At the 50-day mark, are we seeing clear contours of a Trump foreign-policy doctrine? What is the administration’s end goal?
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Matthew Duss |Khaled Elgindy |Dalia Hatuqa |Sara Khorshid |Aaron Miller | +4 more
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Middle East and North Africa On the evening of Feb. 4, U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world—including many lawmakers in his own party—by announcing that the United States will “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Aaron Miller |Lauren Morganbesser
Implementation of week two of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal has gone according to plan, more or less. But anyone who seriously believes that there’s smooth sailing ahead for the three-phased accord should lay down and wait quietly until the feeling passes. This isn’t an agreement between the United States and Switzerland. It’s the grudging result of 15 months of bitter, bloody conflict between two combatants seemingly pledged to the other’s destruction.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Comfort Ero |Aaron Miller |Lauren Morganbesser
Every January in Foreign Policy, the International Crisis Group lists 10 conflicts to watch in the year ahead. But beyond Israel’s conflicts with Iran and Hamas, and the wars in Syria and Ukraine, what else should we be keeping an eye on? The International Crisis Group is an independent organization that speaks to all sides in conflicts and seeks diplomatic avenues to solve them. Join an FP Live conversation with the group’s president and CEO, Comfort Ero.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Aaron Miller |Lauren Morganbesser
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Daniel Kurtzer |Aaron Miller
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Aaron Miller |Lauren Morganbesser
FP Live: Aaron David Miller joined FP’s platform for live journalism on Oct. 7 for a look back at the last year of the conflict in the Middle East and what might happen next. Watch the interview here.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Daniel Byman |Dana Sherne |Aaron Miller |Daniel Kurtzer
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel and set in motion a new cycle of violence that has rocked the Middle East. With the risk of yet more escalation, where did things go so wrong? What could third parties such as the United States have done differently? Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, joins FP Live to look back—and ahead.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Aaron Miller |Adam Israelevitz
U.S. Foreign Policy United States Having defied and humiliated a genuinely pro-Israel president for nearly 10 months and alienated large swaths of a largely pro-Israel Democratic Party and a good bit of the American public to boot, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still managed to secure a long-withheld White House meeting and even bested British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s three addresses to a joint session of Congress by giving a fourth. It’s doubtful that this Washington...
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
quincyinst.org | Aaron Miller |Steven Simon
Woody Allen once quipped that 80 percent of success in life is just showing up. From a negotiator’s perspective, he was only half right; success more often than not depends on showing up at the right time. Anyone trying to make sense of U.S. President Joe Biden’s tortured attempt to sell Israel’s peace plan needs to take a hard look at time and timing and how each of the three major players calculate it. In essence, we have three separate clocks ticking at different relative rates.
