The Center for International Policy’s experts offer their thoughts on the stakes of the 2026 midterm elections.

Washington wants a wider UN arms embargo on Sudan while refusing to use its direct leverage over the UAE. The war on Iran explains why.

CIP has joined the global call to end the prosecution of Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah and protect independent journalism in Egypt.

This commentary is part of CIP’s Iran project. Trump and US war planners misread Tehran’s perception of the war. Iran is not on the verge of collapse; on the contrary, its leaders are now committed to ...

October 22, 2026 — Nancy Okail, president and CEO of the Center for International Policy, issued the following statement: “The Trump administration’s reported rejection of every candidate for UN ...

Serbia’s student movement overthrew an autocrat peacefully at the ballot box. What can the rest of the world learn from the Student List’s victory? A student movement successfully defeated Serbia’s ...

The collapse of former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 ushered in a generational political transition in Syria. Yet, as the country works to rebuild and heal after nearly 14 years ...

The funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei is the Islamic Republic’s biggest political ritual since the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 and one of the most consequential political events in the Islamic ...