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FILE PHOTO: Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani attends a news conference in Doha, Qatar, May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/File Photo

Qatar’s Detrimental Foreign Policy, How It Ends

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 9, 2017 | Middle East

For several days now, Qatar has been boycotted from its neighbors’ air, land or seas, leaving it with no viable land border and just a tiny corridor for air and sea traffic. A number of shipping companies also halted service to Doha’s ports. Doha’s isolation was a...

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In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Under Trump: New Directions for American Foreign Policy

by Amir Taheri | Feb 4, 2017 | Features

With the U.S. Senate endorsing the nomination of Rex Tillerson as the new Secretary of State, President Donald J Trump’s national security team is now complete, ready for action. The Trump team differs from those of previous presidents in a number of ways. To start...

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President Trump walks towards the Oval Office. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Trump is his Administration’s Own Worst Enemy on Foreign Policy

by David Ignatius | Jan 30, 2017 | Opinion

President Trump’s slash-and-burn actions in his first week have been dramatic, but dangerously lacking in a consensus of support, even within his own administration. The risks were evident in the collapse of a planned meeting with Mexico’s president and in Trump’s...

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Opinion: Putin’s Quest For a Monroe Doctrine

by Amir Taheri | Jan 27, 2017 | Opinion

Among the questions around President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, one stands out: what is the future of US relations with Russia? So far, however, Trump and members of his national security team have provided vague, and at times contradictory, replies. What the new...

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Donald Trump attends a campaign event at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

The Exciting Presidential Term of Trump

by Ghassan Charbel | Jan 16, 2017 | Opinion

Don’t claim that you are not concerned and that the U.S. is a far country. You know that it is a neighboring one although it is in another continent. If its economy stumbles, the global economy does too. You know that its fleets are the masters of the seas and oceans....