Publications

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  The Arab Gulf States After the War: Expectations for Washington and Tehran

  While the outcome of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is still hard to predict, some of the consequences for Arab Gulf states are coming into focus. In the Center for the National Interest’s latest Policy Brief, CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe examines some of the decisions that Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the

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  Netanyahu’s Exit Strategy: Israeli Politics After the War

  Benjamin Netanyahu believes he has a short window of opportunity to eliminate the long-standing threats from Israel’s fiercest regional rivals, and he could achieve his goals by the end of the spring or early summer, argues Center for the National Interest Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe in a new Issue Brief. At that point, the campaign

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  President Paul Saunders in The Washington Post: How to Make NATO Great Again

  In a new op-ed for the Washington Post, Center President Paul Saunders and former Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky outline a roadmap to revitalize NATO by embracing a new era of burden sharing and industrial cooperation. Amidst the collapse of the old rules-based order, the authors argue that the alliance must adapt to the

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  Center’s Iran Discussion Featured in New York Post

  Can the Trump administration do in Iran what it pulled off in Venezuela last month? Daniel McCarthy, the editor of Modern Age, wrote about the Center’s recent discussion with Sina Azodi and Alex Vatanka for the New York Post. Read it here.

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  The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconstruction in the Trump Era

  In our latest Policy Focus, “The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconciliation in the Trump Era,” CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe examines the foreign policy challenges that lie ahead. The White House would prefer to avoid anything that remotely resembles the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has dismantled a large part

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