Present Dangers
Ilan BermanPresent Dangers is a curated collection of writings and analysis on foreign policy, national security, and the most pressing challenges facing the United States. Written by Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council.
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Israel’s Economic Resilience Is Its Untold Story
Earlier this week, Israelis went to the polls in a deeply consequential election. Tuesday’s vote was the country’s first since the massacre of October 7, 2023, and it served both as a referendum on the tenure of Israeli Prime Minister Benja...
National Security Notebook | Number 25, October 25, 2026
Earlier this month, I traveled to Israel to chair a workshop on “Iran and the Shiite Axis” at Reichman University’s 2026 World Summit on Counter-Terrorism. I used the opportunity to check in with some world-class experts about the current g...
Will Benjamin Netanyahu Survive Israel’s Elections Next Week?
Next week, Israelis will go to the polls in what will arguably be the most important election in the Jewish state’s 78-year history.
It is the first electoral contest since the horrific events of October 7, 2023, in which Palestinian terro...
National Security Notebook | Number 24, October 16, 2026
So, here’s a pertinent question: who’s actually winning the Iran war? At the moment, there seem to be at least two schools of thought on that score.
The first, generally optimistic one posits that Washington is winning its contest of wills...
The Iran War Is A Crisis. It’s Also A Catalyst
Some seven months into the Trump administration’s war on Iran, it has become fashionable for much of the media to depict the conflict as a stalemate – one in which the Trump administration is drifting inexorably toward compromise with Iran’...
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Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council and Editor-in-Chief of Statecraft & Strategy. Forbes contributor. Board member of RFE/RL and MBN. Sanctioned by Russia. Views my own.
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