Oct 11, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News
43 years ago, the deadliest Arab-Israeli military conflict commenced with a surprise attack, coordinated mainly by Egypt and Syria, on the Israeli occupied territories in Suez and the Golan Heights. The Yom Kippur War would instantly go down in infamy as the bloodiest...
Sep 22, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News
At the beginning of September, the United States and Russia announced a groundbreaking ceasefire in Syria. Just weeks later, tensions between the two countries are rising at an alarming rate as diplomats on both sides attempt to revive a ceasefire on life support. The...
Jul 1, 2016 | Foreign Policy
In his first address on foreign policy two months ago, presidential candidate Donald Trump explained that one of the key strategies missing in United States foreign policy was unpredictability. If elected President, Trump charged, it would serve for him and the nation...
Sep 15, 2015 | Middle East, Nixon Biographies, Nixon Library Events, Nixon TV
Roham Alvandi is a professor of history at the London School of Economics and an expert on Iran. Roham Avlvandi is author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War Historian Roham Alvandi discusses Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s...
Oct 14, 2014 | Foreign Policy, Middle East, News, Soviet Union
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs President Nixon on the Middle East Peace talks. On October 21, 1973 Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon’s Secretary of State arrived in Moscow to conduct secret negotiations with the Soviet Union to bring an end to the war in...
