Order from Chaos

Algeria must prioritize economic change amidst COVID-19 and political crisis

Yasmina Abouzzohour and Nejla Ben Mimoune · Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Funeral of assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist November 30, 2020, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran: A handout picture provided by the Iranian defense ministry office shows the coffin of slain Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is being carried inside the Shrine of Imam Reza, during a funeral ceremony in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, 29 November 2020. With a funeral worthy of the Islamic Republic s greatest martyrs , Tehran paid a final tribute to a scientist killed in an assassination blamed on Israel and promised to continue his work. Fakhrizadeh died on November 27 in a hospital from his wounds after assailants targeted his card and engaged in a gunfight with his bodyguards outside Tehran, according to Iran s defen Poolfoto ZUMAPRESS.com ,EDITORIAL USE ONLYNo Use Switzerland. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use Austria

Iran will lose the battle, but win the war

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald is shown on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility in support of security and stability in the Pacific Ocean in this September 8, 2014 handout photo. Courtesy of U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Reviving nuclear arms control under Biden

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

11/3/2020 - Press conference of the Lega "League proposals to really help the Italians" in the photo Matteo Salvini with the pro Trump mask (ROME - 2020-11-03, STEFANO CAROFEI) p.s. la foto e' utilizzabile nel rispetto del contesto in cui e' stata scattata, e senza intento diffamatorio del decoro delle persone rappresentate (Photo by IPA/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The impact of COVID-19 on the Italian far right: The rise of Brothers of Italy

Giovanna De Maio

Monday, November 30, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A man holds flags of Taiwan and the United States in support of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during an stop-over after her visit to Latin America in Burlingame, California, U.S., January 14, 2017. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo

A case for optimism on US-Taiwan relations

Monday, November 30, 2020

A combination picture shows Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Osaka, Japan June 29, 2019 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem February 9, 2020. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY and REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/Pool

Saudi-Israeli relations: The curious case of a NEOM meeting denied

Natan Sachs and Tamara Cofman Wittes

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Houthi fighters man a machine gun mounted on a military truck as they parade during a gathering of Houthi loyalists on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

The mistake of designating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization

Gregory D. Johnsen

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden arrives to announce his national security nominees and appointees at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Under Biden, the United States should be there for its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere

Michael Sinclair

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Israeli settlement of Psagot in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

Labeling Israeli products, or formalizing theft of Palestinian land?

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos attends an event at a military zone in Mexico City, Mexico September 2, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo/File Photo

Cienfuegos and the US-Mexico firestorm

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, November 23, 2020

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The fraught politics facing Biden’s foreign policy

November 22, 2020

Sheik Muktar Robow Abu Mansur (2nd R), spokesman of Somalia's Islamic al-Shabab, leaves a news conference after vowing to step up attacks against government soldiers and foreign troops in Mogadishu December 14, 2008. Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf sacked his prime minister on Sunday after they disagreed on a new cabinet demanded by donors, throwing his Western-backed interim government into disarray. Hassan Hussein Nur Adde was the second premier fired by Yusuf and had been in the job for only about a year. The fragile administration is fighting Islamist rebels who control the south and are camped on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA)

Facing elections and a potential US troop withdrawal, risks to Somalia’s security abound

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, November 23, 2020

Turkish and American soldiers stand near a former YPG military point during a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol, near Tel Abyad, Syria September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said

Al Tanf garrison: America’s strategic baggage in the Middle East

Daniel L. Magruder Jr.

Friday, November 20, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

What Ethiopia’s crisis means for Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, November 20, 2020

Kuwait's new Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah gestures as he takes the oath of office at the parliament, in Kuwait City, Kuwait September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee REFILE-CORRECTING FIRST NAME

How politics at home shapes Kuwait’s foreign policy

Thursday, November 19, 2020

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