A battle royal between the president and the supreme leader has engulfed Tehran. The result? Khamenei and his allies are methodically and ruthlessly establishing the planet’s most unabashed theocratic despotism.
A nuclear Iran may not be the biggest threat to Israel. Fear is a danger in and of itself.
Finding monsters under the bed and bogeymen in the closet. Why exaggerating the Iranian threat is bad for U.S. foreign policy.
How to make our adversaries and allies offers they can’t refuse. As threats to U.S. dominance emerge, Washington is looking for a way to counter them. Neocons, liberals and realists all have their own ideas about that. Who will win out?
If we want to calm Iran's nuclear ambitions, we're going to need to brush up on our diplomatic basics.
A year after their assessment of Iranian nuclear ambitions, the authors look back. There are still no good options for dealing with Iran.
The United States must find new and innovative ways to avoid the trap of a dead-end policy towards Iran. A roundtable discussion.
U.S. policy must ensure the price of Iranian aggression becomes unaffordable.
In his blog Subjective Evaluation, Dimitri K. Simes disputes former President Clinton's assertion that his administration
Now on Subjective Evaluation from guest poster Paul J. Saunders, Publisher of National Interest online: House Democrat Charles Rangel may have been playing politics in his rebuke o