Order from Chaos

King Abdullah II of Jordan chairs a meeting to check measures regarding spreading of COVID-19 epidemic, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan on March 16, 2020. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

With Israel’s annexation plans looming, an hour of decision for Jordan’s Hashemites

Monday, June 1, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi uses his mobile phone at his office in Baghdad, Iraq May 9, 2020. Picture taken May 9, 2020. Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

How the US should approach the strategic dialogue with Iraq

Friday, May 29, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the SC Democratic Convention in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., June 22, 2019. REUTERS/Randall Hill - RC161999ACC0

How should Biden handle China?

Thursday, May 28, 2020

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a speech on the future of Europe in Brussels, Belgium January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Europe’s battle lines are drawn at a uniquely perilous moment

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, May 28, 2020

A passenger is seen through a window of a tram, which drives past a banner spread out by Greenpeace activists during a protest against the arrival of "Mikhail Dudin" cargo ship reportedly carrying nuclear wastes from Germany in Saint Petersburg, Russia November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

Don’t resume nuclear testing

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Police officers from the NYPD salute as the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort departs Pier 90 in Manhattan under heavy fog to return to its home port of Norfolk, Virginia, after treating patients during the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in New York City New York, U.S., April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Reopening America: Immediate domestic law enforcement priorities

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Handout file photo dated March 15, 2020 of tthe aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the China Sea. Brett Crozier, captain of nuclear aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, with more than 100 sailors infected with the coronavirus pleaded Monday with U.S. Navy officials for resources to allow isolation of his entire crew and avoid possible deaths in a situation he described as quickly deteriorating. Photo by US Navy via ABACAPRESS.COM

Reopening America: The military never closed

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Graduating Masters students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) gather the day before their graduation ceremony, which is to be held online due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Reopening America: Reimagining graduate education

James Goldgeier

Thursday, May 28, 2020

TABUK, SAUDI ARABIA- Police and military carry out health checks on drivers as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia on April 14, 2020. King Salman of Saudi Arabia extended the curfew throughout the country until new notice due to the spread of the new Covid-19 coronavirus, as reported on Sunday (12) by the Interior Ministry. Saudi Arabia placed its capital Riyadh and other major cities under a 24-hour curfew, blocking much of the population from stopping the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

As a global economic crisis wreaks havoc on Saudi Arabia, the kingdom should reduce military spending

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

A fighter from irregular forces loyal to former army general Khalifa Haftar drives an armed vehicle with the Libyan flag during clashes with Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi June 2, 2014. Eight people were killed and 15 wounded when fighting broke out on Monday between the Libyan army and Islamist militants in Benghazi, medical sources said. The Ansar al-Sharia militant group attacked a camp on Monday belonging to army special forces, residents there said. Forces of the renegade general fighting Islamists later joined the battle, using combat helicopters, they added. REUTERS/Stringer (LIBYA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Contested stabilization: Competing in post-conflict spaces

Patrick W. Quirk and Jason Fritz

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Inmates of the Topo Chico prison, which will be closed soon to be used as a public park, are pictured inside of a new prison in the municipality of Apodaca, Mexico September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril

Mexico’s prisons, COVID-19, and the amnesty law

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 22, 2020

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 19, 2020. Alaa Badarneh/Pool via REUTERS

Years of dereliction has left the PLO facing annexation without a plan

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen delivers her inaugural address at the Taipei Guest House in Taipei, Taiwan May 20, 2020. Wang Yu Ching/Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Taiwan’s president begins her second term with a call for unity

Richard C. Bush

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Vietnamese tourists visit Ha Long bay after the Vietnamese government eased the lockdown following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

Reopening Vietnam: How the country’s improving governance helped it weather the COVID-19 pandemic

Trang (Mae) Nguyen and Edmund Malesky

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an open-air news conference, one year after his inauguration, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kiev, Ukraine May 20, 2020. Sergey Dolzhenko/Pool via REUTERS

Zelenskiy’s first year: New beginning or false dawn?

Wednesday, May 20, 2020