The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the ...

As a result, European countries are increasingly irrelevant or invisible in the diplomacy of the Middle East. The still dominant perspectives in Europe belong largely to the era now fading ...

Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: I think when we're talking about Europe and the Middle East, we're really talking principally about three countries, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

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