Books & Reports
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Reassessing U.S.-Türkiye Relations: The View from Ankara
At the recent NATO Summit in Ankara, President Trump announced a new opening in U.S.-Turkish ties, with an end to the long-standing sanctions on defense sales. In the latest report from the Center for the National Interest’s Regional Perspectives series, Dr. Hasan Mesut Önder asserts that this is only the start of a process to
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The Case for Deeper U.S. Engagement with Afghanistan
In the nearly five years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the takeover by the Taliban, America has limited its engagement with the Afghan regime to securing the release of detainees and pursuing modest counter-terrorism cooperation. Kuchins proposes a pragmatic, step-by-step approach to interacting with officials in Kabul that could—in parallel with substantive collaboration
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Regional Perspectives | Nechirvan Barzani and the New Kurdish Diplomacy
The Center for the National Interest is pleased to share its first paper in a new series, Regional Perspectives. The series will aim to provide a venue for guest authors to present their views of what the world looks like from outside America’s borders. In the paper, “Nechirvan Barzani and the New Kurdish Diplomacy,” Dr.
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Iran: The U.S. Needs to Find an Offramp, Soon
Ten weeks after the U.S. and Israel began their campaign of military strikes against Iran, a ceasefire remains in place, but negotiations appear deadlocked. In the Center for the National Interest’s latest Policy Brief, CFTNI Senior Fellow Greg Priddy assesses current circumstances and U.S. options in what has become an economic war of attrition. In
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The Popular Mobilization Forces: Power, Influence, and the Future of Iraq
In our latest Policy Brief, we welcome a guest contributor from Iraq, Alfadhel Ahmad, who writes in collaboration with CFTNI Senior Fellow Joshua Yaphe. The topic is “The Popular Mobilization Forces: Power, Influence, and the Future of Iraq,” and the two authors explore the sad reality that the current Iran War is masking. Washington has
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