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Beyond Maximalism: Reimagining U.S. Strategy Toward Iran Through Systems Thinking
The outcome of the U.S.-Iran war launched in February 2026 “exposed a deeper failure of systems thinking in U.S. strategy toward Iran and the region,” argues CIP Senior Nonresident Fellow Sina Toossi, in a new report supported by Horizon 2045 and Ploughshares.
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Recommit to Restraint in U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy
Recent backsliding in U.S. cluster munitions policy implicates international humanitarian law, breaks with longstanding policy and U.S. commitments, and demands an answer from Congress.
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Support the Iran Ceasefire; End the Disastrous War and a Decade of Failed Policy
Executive Vice President Matt Duss calls on US lawmakers to support a ceasefire agreement with Iran to end this historic and completely avoidable foreign policy disaster, to end the belligerence that made it possible, and to support diplomacy.
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International Policy Journal
Curious about what policies can be taken to make the world a better place? Explore the International Policy Journal (IPJ), a platform dedicated to discussing foreign policy priorities within a progressive agenda.
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America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia
In a provocative new essay published by Foreign Affairs, Nancy Okail, President and CEO of the Center for International Policy, and Matt Duss, the organization’s Executive Vice President, present a sweeping critique of the entrenched U.S. foreign policy orthodoxy and lay out a bold blueprint for reform.
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![crop from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes his seat across from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on January 16, 2016, at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria, before a meeting about the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action outlining the shape of Iran's nuclear program. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]](https://internationalpolicy.org/wp-content/smush-webp/2026/06/JCPOAKerryZavidlessCrop.jpg.webp)
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We honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 people murdered 25 years ago today. We must also reckon with why the US response made the world less safe, pursuing failed policies that continue to inflict harm at home and abroad.
From @NancyGEO:
Honoring those we lost 25 years ago and in the wars after means finally prioritizing the human security that Americans and all people deserve
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The UK announced new measures in response to Israeli settlements.
"Banning the import of settlement goods and sanctioning those who facilitate settlement expansion are welcome, if long overdue, steps" says EVP @mattduss. The US should adopt similar measures, not resist them.
The merger of Century International into a new global research department at @CIPolicy led by @tcambanis and drawing on the expertise of 40 staff and fellows is another major milestone marking CIP as a central address for the progressive foreign policy transformation now underway
Welcome aboard, @tcambanis! We’re thrilled about this merger and to have you leading CIP Research. Looking forward to working together with our expanded @cipolicy team of 40 brilliant troublemakers!
In a new piece for the International Policy Journal, Sangsin Lee argues that, which the lack of coordination was less than ideal, it gave President Lee Jae Myung a tangible win: overt deescalation on the peninsula
A Trump-Kim summit could reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula if Washington and Seoul treat it as the start of a process, not a substitute.
This month, Trump abruptly announced that the US was scaling back participation in joint military exercises with South Korea. The reaction filtered through DC along predictable channels, leaving out the big question: what does South Korea want?
A Trump-Kim summit could reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula if Washington and Seoul treat it as the start of a process, not a substitute.
Today marks six months since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran. Thousands killed, a $200 billion price tag, and American families paying more every month for it. This has to end.
Last week, Ecuador's government issued a decree "allowing U.S. military personnel to remain in Ecuador for up to 180 days without visas," allowing the Shield of the Americas collaboration to pursue strikes on land as well as at sea.
Ecuador's Defense Ministry and the U.S. Southern Command are conducting joint military operations against drug cartels near the border with Colombia.
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“Economic D-Day” has begun. But years of sanctions failed to force Iran’s surrender. And more economic pressure is unlikely to succeed now.
Trump is trying to win an unwinnable war of choice. And Tehran will not capitulate under pressure.
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