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Sep 17, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Frederic Wehrey |Jennifer Kavanagh
When President Joe Biden leaves office early next year, he will probably do so without having realized a signature item on his agenda for the Middle East—a diplomatic normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, sealed by a formal U.S. security guarantee to Riyadh. Yet this elusive agreement runs the risk of being picked up again by his successor, no matter who wins the election in November.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Frederic Wehrey |Andrew S. Weiss
The Kremlin is on a roll in large parts of Africa. In April, the Pentagon announced withdrawals of U.S. military forces from Chad and Niger, two key U.S. partners in counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel that are now turning to Russia for security assistance. In the case of Niger, a military junta that seized power in a coup last year ordered U.S. personnel to leave a $100 million drone base.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
latimes.com | Frederic Wehrey |Jennifer Kavanagh
It’s not hard to argue these days that President Biden’s Middle East policy is in shambles — and more than 60% of Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll, would agree. In the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on Oct. 7, America’s closest ally in the Middle East, Israel, has engaged in a punishing reprisal on Gaza that by all accounts has been one of the deadliest conflicts for civilians in recent history.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Jennifer Kavanagh |Frederic Wehrey |Clara Fong |Max Boot
The aftermath of Hamas’s brutal October 7 attack on Israel, which killed an estimated 1,200 people, has prompted what is arguably the most severe challenge to U.S. strategy in the Middle East since the uprisings and civil wars that rocked the Arab world beginning in 2011.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Jennifer Kavanagh |Frederic Wehrey |Bob Seely |William Choong
Quotes of the Day:“Let me remind you that you must never think of yourselves as an elite. To do so, would be bad for you and bad for your relations with the army, and it would undermine those splendid qualities, to which you are wedded, of humility in success, and of a constant sense of humour. No, you are not an elite force. You are something more distinguished. Something of which you can be far more proud.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Frederic Wehrey
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. A new era of de-escalation, calm, and normalization in the Middle East, the narrative went, was expected to lower tensions in a conflict-wracked region, giving local governments and civil society actors much-needed space to tackle current and looming challenges at home—most crucially the threat from global warming and the imperative of the green energy transition.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
msn.com | Frederic Wehrey
Footage and eyewitness accounts have conveyed harrowing scenes from the storm-struck Libyan town of Derna: overflowing morgues and mass burials, rescuers digging through mud with their bare hands to recover bodies, a corpse hanging from a streetlight, the cries of trapped children.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Frederic Wehrey |Jennifer Kavanagh
At the time it was announced, in March 2023, the China-mediated deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia was widely seen as a sign of Beijing’s arrival in Middle East power politics. Although the Biden administration denied that China’s role in brokering the agreement—which reestablished diplomatic relations between Riyadh and Tehran—reflected declining U.S. influence, Washington’s actions since then paint a different picture.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Jennifer Kavanagh |Frederic Wehrey |Will Freeman |Benn Steil
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions At the time it was announced, in March 2023, the China-mediated deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia was widely seen as a sign of Beijing’s arrival in Middle East power politics.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Frederic Wehrey
A vast, arid, oil-dependent country of nearly 7 million people, Libya is acutely exposed to the deleterious effects of climate change. These problems include soaring temperatures, declining rainfall, rising sea levels, extended droughts, and sand and dust storms of increasing frequency, duration, and intensity, to name a few. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index ranks Libya 126 of 182 states, just after Iraq, in the lower-middle tier denoting most vulnerable countries.
