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…to be a raucous presidential election, and may be no more capable of serious negotiations between now and June than the United States was in 2012. But what is clear is that the sanctions have moderated Iranian behavior and rhetoric. At the same time, as the Times also noted, the...

president of the United States, Donald J. Trump ...”—a salutation directed more to the president than to the audience. Pence cast himself as blandly uninteresting, sometimes barely seeming to exist in the shadow of Donald Trump. Little leaked out of the Pence side of the White H...

…nd has unexplored oil and gas resources. Most critically, as a member of the “Five Eyes” security partnerships with the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, New Zealand offers enormous possibilities for Chinese espionage. New Zealand is particularly vulnerab...

…s political personalities have been tied to the group's terrorist and criminal activities. Consider a major case in the United States: In 2008, while Hezbollah operative Ali Karaki was planning a Hezbollah attack in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, his brother, Hasan Antar Karaki, was...

…ed from the south, the outcome would be uncertain, to say the least, and the global balance of power was at stake. The United States used Iran to divert Iraq's attention. Israel was equally useful in diverting Syria's attention. So long as Israel threatened Syria from the south,...

…ning. I'm Christiane Amanpour. There may officially be only one superpower today, but another is rapidly advancing. The United States and China jockey for position at the pinnacle of the world in what might just be called a race to the top. So how will the first tete-a-tete go be...

minor females that the United States Attorney's Office recognized as a victim. L.M.’s swom deposition testimony and the adverse inference drawn from Epstein’s refusal to testify confirm that Epstein began sexually assaulting L.M. when she was 13 years old and continued to molest...

… if those following in ElBaradei’s path think they can combat proliferation without the major powers — particularly the United States — assuming a central role, they are wrong. Checking proliferation will require more innovative and tighter cooperation between the agency ElBarade...

Revisiting and re-evaluating strategies and plans are ongoing processes. They aren’t only restricted to times of crises. Life is full of changes and developments, but only the clear-headed can effectively monitor and examine these changes and identify their trends and then deter...

For example, a pharmaceutical company used chari- table donations to a small local castle restoration charity headed by a foreign government official to induce the offi- cial to direct business to the company. Although the charity was a bona fide charitable organization, internal...

…ue of peace in the Middle East. This was the backdrop for the groundbreak- ing Madrid Peace Conference, convened by the United States and the Soviet Union. It raised new hopes for peaceful resolution to the enduring conflicts of the region. The conference created an unprecedented...

139 Although the United Front Work Department has attracted much media attention, and the term “United Front” has become a euphemistic one for many analysts writing about China’s influence activities abroad, the scope of the UFWD’s activities in China’s external influence opera...

52 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS of the twenty-first century, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency developed it to allow American intelligence operatives to cloak their movements on the Internet. They could anonymously manipulate...

At the heart of Mr. Snowden’s narrative was his claim that while he may have incidentally “touched” other data in his search of NSA files, he took only documents that exposed the malfeasance of the NSA and gave all of them to journalists. Yet even as Mr. Snowden’s narrative was...

 The Special Counsel's office, nearly leak-proof since its inception more than a year ago, can appear to be operating in some parallel universe unmoved by the every-day political turmoil. But in the course of conversations I've had researching a new book on President Trump and t...