The unipolar moment that defined the post-Cold War era is drawing to a close. As American hegemony wanes and new power centers emerge in Beijing, Moscow and beyond, Israel finds itself navigating an increasingly complex multipolar landscape that demands a fundamental reassessment of its strategic orientation and diplomatic priorities. For decades, Israel’s foreign policy operated […]

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The evolving dynamics between India and the United States under the Trump administration have created ripple effects across South Asian and Middle Eastern geopolitics. As bilateral tensions escalate over trade disputes, energy policy and strategic alignment, these strains are having nuanced but significant impacts on India’s relationship with Israel.  The India-US relationship, once heralded as […]

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The longstanding diplomatic and economic partnership between China and Israel finds itself increasingly strained as escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing force Jerusalem into an uncomfortable balancing act. What was once a pragmatic relationship built on mutual technological cooperation and trade has become a complex geopolitical calculation, with Israel caught between its most important ally […]

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The Trump administration’s approach to Venezuela presents a textbook case of how ideological posturing can undermine strategic interests, particularly when it comes to the larger geopolitical competition with China. While Washington has spent the better part of a decade applying maximum pressure on the Maduro regime—through sanctions, diplomatic isolation and threats of military intervention—Beijing has […]

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The recent diplomatic maneuvering between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine provides a textbook example of how American foreign policy elites continue to confuse grand gestures with strategic coherence. The March ceasefire proposals, Donald Trump’s phone diplomacy with Putin and the subsequent shifts in negotiating positions reveal not diplomatic sophistication but the persistent American tendency to […]

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As tensions escalate in the Taiwan Strait and Washington’s bipartisan consensus coalesces around defending the self-ruling island’s democracy, it’s worth stepping back from the emotional rhetoric about freedom versus authoritarianism to examine whether America’s evolving Taiwan policy serves genuine US national interests—or represents another costly overextension of American power. The current trajectory of US policy […]

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