The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened this month with dictators and elected leaders alike – the U.N. does not prefer one or the other – descending upon New York City to deliver mind-numbing speeches replete with misinformation and disinformation. It’s called the “General Debate” but if you see the UNGA (pronounced un-gah!)

Trend Overview By John Hardie Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch. Aiming to curtail Beijing’s ability to exploit American technology

Latest Developments  The United Nations Security Council voted to renew the mandate of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for one year on August 31. However, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined the United States in expressing concern that the resolution did not address the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s obstruction of UNIFIL’s operations. While

Excerpt The Great Arab Revolt—a better name for the “Arab Spring”—that began in Tunisia in 2010 accelerated a process that had started with the first Gulf War: the elimination of the radical Arab threat to Israel and the withering of the Palestinian cause. Granted, not much threat remained. The revolt scrambled the Middle East as […]