Articles

The Other Iranian Threat

April 16, 2018 Ilan I. Berman Alhurra

Whatever happened to the Iranian cyberthreat? Not all that long ago, American officials were preoccupied with the growing disruptive capabilities that the Islamic Republic had begun to demonstrate on the World-Wide Web.

An Emerging Arab-Israeli Thaw

April 3, 2018 James S. Robbins The National Interest

A tectonic shift is taking place in Middle East politics. We may be on the verge of seeing a historic normalization of relations between Israel and several major Arab states. And it is all thanks to Iran.

In AI, Russia Is Hustling To Catch Up

April 3, 2018 Samuel Bendett Defense One

When Vladimir Putin said last fall that artificial intelligence is "humanity's future" and that the country that masters it will "get to rule the world," some observers guessed that the Russian president was hinting at unrevealed progress and breakthroughs in the field.

The End Of The Petrodollar?

March 20, 2018 James Grant The National Interest

In a move that could portend massive shifts in the global oil game, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange will soon unveil an oil-futures contract denominated in Chinese yuan rather than U.S. dollars (product symbol: SC).

Is This The End Of EU History?

March 20, 2018 Rachel Millsap The Hill

Remember Francis Fukayama? The American political scientist and author briefly became the darling of the political science set in the early 1990s with his theory, encapsulated in his bestselling book "The End of History and the Last Man".