Category: New Atlanticist

How to reform UNRWA to improve Palestinian lives and Israeli security

Over the past month two developments unfolded that together capture Israel’s predicament with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). First, a top Hamas commander, killed in combat in Lebanon, was revealed to be an UNRWA employee on administrative leave—signaling, once again, the involvement of local UNRWA

Media coverage of Ukraine must balance public interest and victim privacy

Never before have the horrors of war been seen by so many, so quickly, so far away. In the digital age, photos and videos spread around the world on the internet in almost real time. Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is no exception; few other armed conflicts have been accompanied by such a vast amount of

Experts react: Israel has hit back at Iran with airstrikes. Is this the road to war or an off-ramp?

“Lethal, precise, and above all, surprising.” That’s how Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant earlier this month described the strikes that Israel would launch against Iran in retaliation for Tehran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack against Israel. In the predawn hours on Saturday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Iranian military infrastructure in and around

Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk wants to ‘restart’ the international peace system

Watch the full event Online Event Tue, October 15, 2024 • 4:30 pm ET Nobel Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk on human rights and Russian aggression AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk discusses ongoing threats to democracy and the worldwide gathering of authoritarian forces—and how those topics converge in Ukraine.  Civil Society Europe

If the Middle East conflict gets worse, don’t hesitate to tap the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The ongoing Israel-Iran hostilities risk disrupting global oil markets and reigniting inflation. But the United States and its allies should not hesitate to release strategic reserves if this conflict threatens to spike oil prices. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) of crude oil is currently well-stocked for domestic needs. After accounting for fifty-two-week averages of

European defense industrial woes need a transatlantic remedy

Brussels is still recovering from former Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi’s European competitiveness report, which provided a dramatic assessment of industrial capacity in the European Union (EU) and an even more controversial set of recommendations to accompany it. Published on September 9, the report paints a dire picture of the EU’s economic landscape, citing