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Snapback Sanctions: The Collapse of Western Diplomacy with Iran

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesarms embargo, ballistic missile technology, China, coercion vs. diplomacy, Diplomacy, E3 (France, economic adaptation, economic impact, European powers, financial sanctions, Germany, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran, Israel, JCPOA, Look East strategy, Masoud Pezeshkian, maximum pressure strategy, military strikes, Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear facilities, nuclear program, oil revenues, proliferation, regional stability, Russia, sanctions relief, snapback sanctions, trust collapse, UK, United Nations Security Council, United States, Western diplomacy

Snapback Sanctions: The Collapse of Western Diplomacy with Iran

Sidra Shaukat0 Comments

On September 28, 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) re-imposed previously lifted sanctions against Iran. The move occurred when the European powers triggered the “snapback” mechanism of the Joint…

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Why the Houthi Threat Persists

Archive, Bonus Reads, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesasymmetric warfare, China, counterintelligence, covert operations, cruise missiles, defense and security. , drones, economic impact, geography, global trade routes, Gulf of Aden, Houthi threat, human intelligence, hybrid strategies, intelligence dynamics, Iran, land operations, maritime corridors, maritime security, mini-lateral coalitions, multilateral limitations, naval power, proxy conflict, psychological impact, red sea, regional partnerships, Russia, sea mines, sovereignty concerns, transnational intelligence, Yemen

Why the Houthi Threat Persists

Mohamed ELDoh0 Comments

Despite months of high-profile naval deployments by the United States and its European allies, Yemen’s Houthi movement launched disruptive attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf…

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Counter Terror’s High-tech to Low-tech Backfire

Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats"Counter-terrorism, analog communications, armed assaults, Aum Shinrikyo, bombings, cellular detection, Center for Strategic and International Studies, chemical weapons, commercial drones, couriers, critical infrastructure, cyberattack, dead drops, dynamite, economic impact, gasoline, Global Terrorism Index, ground operation, gunpowder, hamas, handwritten notes, Hezbollah, high-tech, homeland security, IDF, incendiary balloons, inexpensive methods, International Security, Iranian missile attack, Israel, low-tech, National Security, Nuclear Weapons, pagers, power plant attack, Sarin gas attack, technology in warfare, Terrorism, terrorism statistics, UAVs, walkie-talkies

Counter Terror’s High-tech to Low-tech Backfire

Justin Leopold-Cohen0 Comments

As the media ponders how Israel will respond to Iranian missile attack, many remain awestruck by the September 17, 2024, Israeli pager attack and subsequent walkie-talkie detonations that killed or…

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