Authors

Eric Bordenkircher

Eric Bordenkircher, Ph.D., is a research fellow at UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development and was formerly a visiting assistant professor in government at Claremont McKenna College and Pepperdine University. His writing has appeared in National Review, Newsweek, the American Mind, the National Interest, the American Conservative, Providence, RealClearWorld, Newsmax, the Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, the Washington Examiner, the San Diego Union Tribune, Middle East Policy, Review of Middle East Studies, Middle East Quarterly, 1945, and the Fikra Forum. He can be found on X @UCLA_Eagle. The views represented in his pieces are his own and do not necessarily represent the position of UCLA or the Center for Middle East Development.
by | Oct 9, 2024

The violence between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah jeopardizes Kamala Harris’ presidential aspirations, as it threatens to lay bare a candidate whose foreign policy knowledge and experience is primitive and problematic. The Middle East policy that the vice president…

by | Jul 12, 2024

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, made several unprecedented incendiary comments during a speech on June 19. He threatened war on Cyprus if they assisted Israel in an attack on the militia and pledged to wage a…

by | Jan 21, 2024

The Israel-Hamas war has placed a spotlight on the absurdity enveloping the parts of the Arab world subjected to Iranian interference: Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Despite being afflicted by deepening financial and humanitarian crises and not having been attacked…

by | Dec 8, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has become a liability for America. Its transformation from an economic and medical provider to a social engineer has made it an instrument of U.S. cultural imperialism. Unless USAID’s educational mission is…

by | Mar 10, 2023

President Joe Biden’s diplomacy in the Middle East is an exercise in how to appease and empower a hardline antagonist. Five months ago, Biden claimed that U.S. diplomacy prevented an outbreak of violence between Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia, and Israel….

by | Apr 14, 2022

Progressive U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East deserves a tragicomic TV series called How to Undermine Friends and Empower Enemies. The plotline of How to Undermine Friends and Empower Enemies is formulaic. The president, his advisers, and members of…

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