American Grand Strategy, Why Kissinger Got Peacemaking Right and Carter Got It Wrong, and Israel’s Turkey Problem
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a threat to Israel. But Iran is a bigger one.
December 3, 2019
American Grand Strategy, Why Kissinger Got Peacemaking Right and Carter Got It Wrong, and Israel’s Turkey Problem
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a threat to Israel. But Iran is a bigger one.
In a wide-ranging interview by Alan Johnson, Michael Doran criticizes the failures of U.S. grand strategy since the end of the cold war, expounds upon his essay from the beginning of this year on the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, and discusses Washington’s complex relations with Turkey and the Syrian Kurds. Doran also addresses the situation of Israel in historical perspective, comparing two competing American approaches to peacemaking that date back at least to the Eisenhower administration:
December 3, 2019
Don’t Allow Arab States to Inherit the Property of Expelled Jews
Will they drive out and also inherit?
The Anti-Jewish Roots of John Rawls’s Political Philosophy
Anti-Pelagianism, plus Marx’s anti-Semitism, minus religion, equals A Theory of Justice.
The Agency That Fights Religious Persecution Abroad Shouldn’t Also Fight Religion
Or “abuse of religious belief.”
A Rare 3rd-Century Synagogue, and Its Even Rarer Mosaic
In the Golan Heights, evidence of a transition from study hall to prayer hall.