BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,139, August 30, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US policy in Afghanistan was based on lies, ignorance, and irrational thinking. Many other aspects of American foreign policy, still doggedly pursued, look dangerously similar. For 30 years, US …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,103, July 23, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US is no longer the country that recovered from the Pearl Harbor disaster and won WWII, or that both morally and economically sustained itself throughout its prolonged ideological …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,018, May 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The clash with China is upon us and the US is losing. It is not losing technologically, or at least not yet. It is losing ideologically. China is winning …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,955, March 9, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mitch McConnell embodies what it takes to govern, but Donald Trump represents what it takes to win. Separately, however, these archetypes can achieve neither. Yet unity may prove elusive …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,851, December 18, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Trump is exceptionally unpopular among secular American Jews, despite his groundbreaking approach to Middle East peace and active efforts on Israel’s behalf. Many American Jews have simply stopped …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,799, November 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: No major power has attempted in earnest to mediate the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, and some have actively participated in keeping the situation ablaze. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have been actively …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,784, October 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Arab World is increasingly losing interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict. If that conflict is to be sustained, it will be almost entirely through the efforts of the Progressive …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,735, September 8, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The foreign policy of a progressive US administration could entail a fanatical pursuit of race-based “intersectionality” policies, similar to the proletarian internationalism of yesteryear. If US foreign policy were …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,705, August 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Alexander Lukashenko’s days as the autocratic president of Belarus are clearly numbered, and Russia will likely play a key role in his exit. What is less clear is just …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,675, August 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American Left is intensely frustrated by President Donald Trump’s ability to penetrate their monopoly on the news cycle. When the Left is frustrated, it acts out, up to …
