Israel News & Analysis

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, the bottom falling out of US-EU relations, and how an expanding insurgency threatens state collapse in Mali.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including reports of covert Chinese arms shipments to Iran and the risks involved in President Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

In the heartland of ancient Persia, the lines in the sand of West Asia’s geoeconomic map are being redrawn.

The security of a few narrow waterways underpins much of the global economy, and one of them has effectively been closed.

The Iran war is generating the high-inflation, low-growth environment that is a historical incubator for radicalized politics. Examining upcoming elections where these political forces could be decisive.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including signs of possible TACO fatigue in the markets, the Houthis entrance into the war, and the increasingly scorched earth character of target selection.

The petrodollar system has always hinged on a US security guarantee to Gulf states, but the durability of this guarantee is now being called into question by the Iran war.

The Iran conflict reflects a sobering lesson for US policymakers: in an era of asymmetric competition and economic interdependence, raw military strength alone is no longer sufficient to guarantee strategic control.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, signs of distress in UK bond markets, and Russia’s advancing efforts to assert state control over its domestic internet.

The war between Iran and the United States has placed Russia in a classic strategic trap — a zugzwang, the chess term for a position in which every available move makes a player’s situation worse.

Examining the great power interests and religious millenarianism fueling the US-Israel Iran war.

The impacts of Strait of Hormuz closure are not evenly distributed, at least in the short-term. But the economic pain becomes more universal the longer the crisis continues.

US-Israeli strikes have begun targeting Iran’s financial infrastructure to degrade regime resiliency, but the strategy is not without its risks.

What began as a US-Israeli war against Iran is now exposing a second front that Washington did not advertise: the slow breakdown of Western sanctions discipline.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, the impact that the conflict is having on global food prices, what the redeployment of THAAD ‘parts’ from South Korea to the Middle East tells us about the war, and a wave of brutal attacks against military bases in northeast Nigeria.