Published On: April 23, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Israel’s latest parliamentary election has consolidated the country’s position within a growing bloc of illiberal democracies around the world
Published On: March 21, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Western non-intervention killed Spanish democracy in the 1930s. Venezuela must not be next
Published On: February 24, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Ideology is a powerful tool for packaging a broad political agenda but faith-based fixations almost invariably lead to bad policies
Published On: December 3, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
World’s major powers have largely resumed their Cold War postures preparing themselves for open conflict
Published On: October 23, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
The rise of radical ethnic nationalism as a response to fears of terrorism and mass migration represents a more fundamentally transformative crisis
Published On: September 26, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Israel has determined that its Jewish identity is more important than its democracy. This will be bad
Published On: August 23, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Colombia’s government has so far achieved only 18.5 percent of the reforms, laws, and promises stipulated by the peace accord
Published On: July 24, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
With much of Europe surrounded by illiberal forces, the EU has been left alone to defend what remains of the old order
Published On: May 17, 2018 12:10 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
By trading diplomacy for saber-rattling, Bush administration slammed the door on Iran. Trump embraces same tactic.
Published On: April 29, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
No amount of triumphant rhetoric can obscure the West’s betrayal of the Syrian people, nor disguise its lack of any actual strategy for resolving the Syria conflict
Published On: April 1, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Western liberal order is not in crisis because of Russia. Crisis in Western democracies is homegrown
Published On: February 25, 2018 12:22 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
When, on a visit to Warsaw in 1970, German Chancellor Willy Brandt suddenly dropped to his knees before the Monument to the Ghetto Uprising, Władysław Gomułka, Poland’s communist leader, whispered, “wrong monument.”
Published On: January 31, 2018 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Iran’s interest in avoiding all-out war should be good news for its enemies, which are not in a strong position to manage foreign military entanglements.
Published On: December 26, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Trump’s Jerusalem declaration is the latest manifestation of the unlikely president’s quest for domestic legitimacy
Published On: October 15, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
The malignant effects of identity politics should not be allowed to tear Spanish society apart.
Published On: October 10, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Spain’s resilience to far-right populism in rest of Europe has deep historical roots.
Published On: September 14, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
When complacent autocrats do not respond to public protests, they face a revolution from below.
Published On: August 9, 2017 12:30 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
The Kurdish community in Iraq, represented by the Kurdish Regional Government, now has a real shot at statehood.
Published On: July 10, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
Qatar isn’t Saudi Arabia’s problem. Saudis are rather using external enemies to divert attention from domestic problems
Published On: May 9, 2017 12:15 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami
The Arab monarchies’ religious basis of legitimacy proved sturdier than that of the Arab republics