Bruce Jones

A soldier of the Japanese advanced team watches as an Iraqi construction worker prepares a road for their base outside the town of Samawa, some 300kms south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad February 21, 2004. Japan kept security tight across the country on Saturday as its largest contingent of troops to date prepared to leave on a controversial mission to Iraq. REUTERS/Peter Andrews PA - RP4DRIASPQAA

Improving the relationship between security and development

Homi Kharas and Bruce Jones

Friday, April 27, 2018

Opposition supporters hold letters forming the slogan "Democracy now in peaceful protest", during a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas

Democracy in the new geopolitics

Torrey Taussig and Bruce Jones

Thursday, March 22, 2018

A NASA Earth Observatory handout released December 5, 2012 of a composite image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night, assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. REUTERS/NASA Earth Observatory/Handout (SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - GF2E8C51UIA01

Watch: Experts discuss an era of new geopolitics

Ryan Hass, Bruce Jones, Robert Kagan, Suzanne Maloney, Jung H. Pak, Alina Polyakova, and Thomas Wright

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

People take part in a protest against sexual violence against women during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, July 7, 2016. REUTERS/Susana Vera - S1AETOGPURAA

Democracy is far from dead

Bruce Jones and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Washington, DC, December 1-3, 2017 December 1 to 3, the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings will host its 14th annual Saban Forum, titled America First and the Middle East. The 2017 Saban Forum will feature a video message from Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and conversations with Jared Kushner, senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump, Ayelet Shaked, Israeli minister of justice, John R. Allen, Brookings president, several U.S. senators and other current and former officials from the United States, Israel, and other countries and international organizations. Much of the Forum proceedings are off the record, but some key events will be webcast on the Brookings website.

What Jared Kushner gets right about Middle East peace

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Lights across the earth are pictured in this NASA handout satellite image obtained by Reuters December 5, 2012. This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits and 2.5 terabytes of data to get a clear shot of every parcel of EarthÕs land surface and islands. REUTERS/NASA/Handout. (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3E8C51C4001

The new geopolitics

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - HP1ED9J17TXSM

A tale of three Trumps

Thursday, September 21, 2017

An aerial view shows makeshift shelters, tents and containers where migrants live in what is known as the "Jungle", a sprawling camp in Calais, France, September 7, 2016. Picture taken September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - LR1EC980REDR3

What makes displacement different today?

Jessica Brandt, Bruce Jones, and Bruce Katz

September 13, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump (C), flanked by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (from L), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, holds a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTX30UWZ

To negotiate from strength, Team Trump has to build “situations of strength”

Bruce Jones and Will Moreland

Friday, March 24, 2017

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a performance given with splendor at the People's Theatre on Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the State Merited Chorus in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on February 23, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. - RTSZXCL

North Korea threat brings out Trump’s serious side

Bruce Jones and Jonathan D. Pollack

Tuesday, March 7, 2017