Embedded video from CNN Video I encourage you to watch this 15 minute analysis of the Israeli elections from Fareed Zakaria’s GPS.
Patrick Doherty is Director of the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. This post first appeared on The Havana Note. This fascinating story from U.S. News and World Report is the first public signal to the government in Havana that Washington is listening to the messages the Cuban government is sending. It’s good timing….
Last Friday, New America Foundation Whitehead Senior Fellow Michael Lind moderated a discussion featuring three international relations heavyweights: Princeton’s G. John Ikenberry, Johns Hopkins’ Daniel Deudney, and Nixon Center President Dimitri Simes. The four discussed Ikenberry and Deudney’s article in Foreign Affairs, “The Myth of the Autocratic Revival: Why Liberal Democracy Will Endure.
This is a guest post by Amjad Atallah, Co-Director of the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. The Israeli elections are not really over.
My colleague Michael Lind will be hosting a live panel discussion at 12:30 pm EST with Princeton University/Woodrow Wilson Institute Professor G.
Win Monroe is a research intern at the New America Foundation. Leaders from both Russia and China had harsh words for American-style capitalism at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. But, as energy prices collapse and demand for exports fall, the legitimacy of these autocratic state capitalists is also being called into question.
The howls of outrage emanating from European capitals following the Russia-Ukraine gas row have led some to conclude that Europe will move quickly to diversify its natural gas supply at Russia’s expense. In fact, it is more likely that Russia’s aggressive move will reinforce Europe’s internal divisions and yield strategic dividends over the long-term.
I found the video above on the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit YouTube Channel. I can’t get the sound to play, but the text on the screen says it all.
This is a guest post for The Washington Note written by Hillary Mann Leverett, a former State Department and National Security Council official who participated in numerous rounds of secret negotiations with Iran.
