Order from Chaos

Saudi Energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman attends a news conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Waleed Ali - RC1496A3D9B0

Saudi leaders thought the kingdom was safe — they were wrong

Bruce Riedel · Thursday, September 19, 2019

Smoke is seen following a fire at Aramco facility in the eastern city of Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer - RC18BDE58360

Around the halls: Brookings experts react to the attack on Saudi oil facilities

Samantha Gross, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Daniel L. Byman

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

An anti-government protester throws back a tear gas canister at the police during a demonstration near Central Government Complex in Hong Kong, China, September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC14CEE90590

The story of Hong Kong is a Shakespearean tragedy

Jeffrey A. Bader

Monday, September 16, 2019

Supporters of detained presidential candidate and Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui react after unofficial results of the Tunisian presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia, September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RC173E0E8170

Political outsiders sweep Tunisia’s presidential elections

Monday, September 16, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1ABFF59380

Israeli elections redux: What you need to know

Friday, September 13, 2019

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrives to welcome Chinese Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC1F0A5D6A90

The place of military history in today’s defense planning

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Friday, September 13, 2019

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (L) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren during the first night of the second 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, July 30, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - HP1EF7V04ERJQ

The problem at the core of progressive foreign policy

September 11, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs for Baltimore, Maryland from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington U.S., September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC19CC8CBAF0

Bolton’s departure signals Trump’s foreign-policy pivot

September 11, 2019

Protestors leave after lighting fire on a road during a rally in Hong Kong, China September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis - RC1DBD59A700

How Hong Kong got to this point

Richard C. Bush

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Turkish villager Hasan Dogruyol (R) carries a sack of cotton as he works in a cotton field near the border town of Reyhanli on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 4, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509U401

Syrian refugees in Turkey need jobs

Kemal Kirişci and Gokce Uysal Kolasin

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Supporters of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden shout anti-American slogans, after the news of his death, during a rally in Quetta May 2, 2011. Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. helicopter raid on a mansion near the Pakistani capital Islamabad early on Monday, officials said, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials said bin Laden was found in the million-dollar compound in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, 60 km (35 miles) north of Islamabad. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E75300AX01

Al-Qaida today, 18 years after 9/11

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Venezuelan migrant children play soccer in a camp run by the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Maicao, Colombia May 7, 2019. Picture taken May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC144B451E30

Get ready for the Venezuela refugee crisis

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Juan Carlos Pinzón

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Thuringia's Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Bjoern Hoecke speaks during an election campaign event ahead of the upcoming Brandenburg and Saxony state elections in Koenigs Wusterhausen, Germany August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi - RC145F039280

The AfD wolf is at the door in east Germany

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, September 9, 2019

Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini gestures as he speaks during a session of the upper house of parliament over the ongoing government crisis, in Rome, Italy August 20, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi - RC17917225D0

Italy’s political turmoil shows that parliaments can confront populists

Monday, September 9, 2019

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions session in the House of Commons in London, Britain September 4, 2019. ©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC1139C534A0

Brexit endgame: Boris Johnson loses control

Thursday, September 5, 2019

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