There’s a larger issue that the Afghanistan scuttle may foreshadow: the collapse of liberalism as an appealing solution to humanity’s political and social dilemmas.
Biden has failed his first major foreign policy test
Joe Biden is an old man with big ideas who’s in a hurry. It’s a potentially dangerous combination. But there’s reason for the world to give Biden the benefit of the doubt. He plans to use America’s material and moral…
Can Biden launch a second Madrid conference?
The Madrid Middle East peace conference launched 30 years ago is a model that should inspire President Biden as he searches for a post-Trump policy for the region On 30 October 1991, President George H Bush delivered the first substantive…
How Barack Obama inspired and killed the Arab Spring
In 1910, Europe was mainly a family business. Today, the EU rules nearly everywhere but Britain
King George V seated front and centre with eight other European kings in Windsor Castle in 1910 In May 1910, nine European crowned heads of state posed for a photograph at Windsor Castle where they’d gathered for the funeral of…
UAE-Israel deal makes waves
In August 1990, though he didn’t know it, Iraq’s President Saddam Hussain created the conditions by invading Kuwait for the launch in Madrid 14 months later of what remains the most credible attempt to end the Arab-Israel conflict. His actions…