Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post

Ishaan Tharoor

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Past articles by Ishaan:

Who is responsible for the disaster in Libya? Everyone.

Libya’s two regimes left critical infrastructure in a state of neglect. But the intervention of myriad outside powers laid the groundwork for disaster. → Read More

30 years later, the Oslo accords are an evident failure

Three decades later, invoking “Oslo” in the context of the Middle East conjures up a feeling of defeat. → Read More

U.S. is far more globally popular under Biden than it was in Trump era

New polling from the Pew Research Center underscores a shift in international attitudes toward the United States. → Read More

The death toll in Ukraine is huge. The casualty count in Tigray may be higher.

For all the weight of its brutality and violence, the war in Ukraine was not even the single deadliest conflict in the world last year. → Read More

Sudan nears ‘breaking point’ as foreigners evacuate

In recent days, Western media's focus has centered on the evacuations of foreign nationals from Sudan. Ordinary Sudanese citizens seeking an escape are not so lucky. → Read More

Eyeing China, Biden official floats a new ‘Washington consensus’

National security adviser Jake Sullivan last week delivered an address viewed as the clearest illustration yet of the Biden administration’s big picture view of the way forward on trade, the global economy and the dilemma of confronting China. → Read More

In Israel, DeSantis reveals that his foreign policy mirrors Trump’s

The trip’s highlight may be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s loss of composure when asked by reporters about his poll numbers. But we also got a glimpse of his foreign policy thinking. → Read More

South Korea’s Yoon has a crucial, if awkward, summit with Biden

Amid fallout over the U.S. spying scandal, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives in Washington and will discuss a diverse agenda with President Biden. → Read More

Sudan slides toward civil war and state collapse

People who have navigated Sudan’s tortured politics fear an even darker turn in a nation that is no stranger to ruinous war. → Read More

Increasingly authoritarian Arab leaders are burying the Arab Spring

Developments in Tunisia are the latest iteration of what Nadim Houry, executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative, described as an “authoritarian restoration” that got underway in the years after the Arab Spring. → Read More

Brazil’s Lula reaches out to China and Russia, stoking U.S. unease

Away from the West, the “nonaligned” world is finding its voice. → Read More

Behind violent clashes in Sudan is a broader global power struggle

As dueling warlords remain locked in a classic internecine conflict in Sudan, outside players are fueling the discord. → Read More

Good Friday Agreement of N. Ireland is rare success story of 90s U.S. diplomacy

The 25th anniversary of the pact is a reminder of the relative failure of two other Clinton-era diplomatic agreements in the Middle East and the Balkans. → Read More

China’s new world order is taking shape with Xi Jinping

A bumper week for diplomacy in Beijing helps show the contours of the new world order China is imagining. → Read More

France's Macron and Europe hedge their bets on Beijing with China trip

Frances Emmanuel Macron heads to China on a complicated mission, keen to enlist Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the pursuit of checking Russia’s war while hoping to boost economic ties. → Read More

Donald Trump’s indictment saga is part of a wider global ‘age of impunity’

A recent ranking of countries by levels of impunity found the United States in the middle of the pack, far behind many of its peers in the West. → Read More

Under Biden, U.S. sees unions as key ally in democracy agenda

The importance of organized labor in the life of democracies and how to bolster unions were main themes on the last day of the Summit for Democracy. → Read More

Biden’s Summit for Democracy is a tough hill to climb

Some U.S. officials and foreign policy experts see President Biden's Summit for Democracy as an inconsequential talk shop. → Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel follows illiberal governments in Hungary, Poland

The desire of Israel’s ruling far-right coalition to overhaul the judiciary is, in part, inspired by the success of illiberal nationalists elsewhere. → Read More

Israel’s democratic crisis is about more than just Benjamin Netanyahu

The maelstrom unleashed by Israel's prime minister comes after he mainstreamed extremist factions, giving further momentum to a hard-right, illiberal agenda. → Read More