Section archive

Islamabad Memorandum

All desks 1971 A. Wess Mitchell Abbas Araghchi Abhijeet Dipke Abraham Accords ACCORD Accountability Afghanistan Africa Aga Khan Foundation Aggression AI Governance AIPAC air defence Al Udeid Alliance Allison Carnegie Amarna Letters Amitav Acharya Ammonium Nitrate Amnesty International Amos Azaria Analysis Ancient History Anderson Salcedo Lozano Angelo Mejia Melendez Ankara Aoun AQ Khan Arab leaders Arabic Araghchi Aramco Armenia Armenian Genocide Armin Krishnan Arrest Warrant arsenal Artificial Intelligence Asia Asim Munir Assembly of States Parties Auckland August 6 Australia Australia Awards Awards Azerbaijan Bab el-Mandeb Bahrain

Analysis

The Language of Power

The ICC issued warrants. The UN issued resolutions. The G7 issued communiqués. None of it moved Trump on Netanyahu. Arab leaders did it in a private conversation, in Trump's language, about Trump's interests. The method reveals what the last 18 months have taught pragmatic states.