The United States and Iran departed from high-level, direct talks in Pakistan without a peace deal. According to the American side, it was their continued disagreement over the nuclear question that ultimately stood in the way. Yet conspicuously absent from the table were the Arab Gulf states, which have absorbed five weeks of strikes on their territories in a war… Continue reading Talks in Pakistan Failed. Why the Gulf Must Be There Next Time 

More than one million people have been displaced across Lebanon since Israel’s latest escalation began on March 2. In a matter of days, sweeping, unlawful displacement orders were given for the entirety of southern Lebanon, parts of the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs known as the Dahiyeh—areas that together account for roughly 14 percent of Lebanese territory.   Lebanon has struggled to absorb the shock. Of… Continue reading In Lebanon, a New Wave of Displacement Exposes a Broken System 

What is unfolding in Iran is not simply a war over the regional balance of power or nuclear containment. It is an attempt to rupture the geographic core of an emerging multipolar order designed to bypass Western dominance—by targeting the single state that links China’s and Russia’s ambitions across the entire Eurasian continent. The strikes on Iranian military installations, critical infrastructure, and political leadership—especially the initial assassination of Supreme… Continue reading The Iran War and the Battle for A Multipolar World Order