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Antiwar.com Original The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded Why 2021 Looks So Much Like 1981 – And Why That Should Scare Usby William J. Astore and Tom Engelhardt Posted on Originally posted at TomDispatch. When it comes to future conflicts or present-day war games, they have all the advantages and we have none! Or as Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, told CNN recently, “Russia and China are playing a home game, we are playing an away game.” And mind you, we’re talking about a home game that could stretch from the Baltic Sea and the Arctic ...

Cornell University File Photo Walter F. LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History. Walter LaFeber, revered history professor, dies March 10, 2021 Walter F. LaFeber, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, in the College of Arts and Sciences – who won ovations from students for classroom lectures and whose mastery of U.S. foreign relations guided historians, political scientists and politicians for decades – died March 9 in Ithaca. He was ...

The president faces an array of foreign policy decisions, few of them on a timetable of his choice.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE's influential envoy to the United States. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Five years ago, neither Yousef Al Otaiba nor Jeremy Issacharoff could have imagined that the United Arab Emirates—one of 19 countries to declare a total economic boycott of Egypt in 1979 for making peace with Israel—would soon come full circle and itself embrace the Jewish state. But that’s exactly what happened thanks to the Abraham Accord—a US diplomatic breakthrough announced on Aug. 13, 2020, that since then has led three more Arab countries to renounce all hostilities with Israel: Bahrain,...

With the nomination season for the Biden administration’s most-senior appointees underway, understanding the nominees’ views on the most significant threat to the national security of the United States and its allies — the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — should be a significant part of the Senate’s advice and consent. Already during the nomination hearings for the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence, the challenges posed by the CCP have had top billing. This is as it should be. Wh...