Elliott Abrams
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 21, 2026
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How Trump’s Winning Coalition Sees Foreign Policy as the Midterms Approach | Council on Foreign Relations (opens the original)
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“It’s the economy, stupid” is a now-venerable line about why voters back a certain candidate—even when the choice appears unexpected. But it’s not only the economy; for some voters, and for very large groups of them at times, foreign policy issues can be important and even determinative. A study group at the Council on Foreign Relations spent the last year looking at the foreign policy views of several voting groups that contributed to President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. This
The Trump Coalition | Council on Foreign Relations (opens the original)
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A Council on Foreign Relations study group convened scholars and political analysts to examine the foreign policy views of several groups of 2024 Donald Trump voters: Hispanic, Black, Jewish, Muslim, evangelical, and white working-class Americans who supported Trump in that year’s election. The group found that Republican voters still support U.S. global leadership and military strength, as defined by the party since the era of President Ronald Reagan, though they are more wary of alliances and
More Persecution of the Baha’i in Qatar | Council on Foreign Relations (opens the original)
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One might have thought that a Middle East war that has badly reduced Qatar’s natural gas exports and greatly harmed its economy would fully occupy the Qatari government. Not so; it has found time throughout 2026 to persecute the small and law-abiding Baha’i community. “In recent months there has been a surge of refusals to renew residency permits and even curtailment of existing permits…. ‘Qatar’s small and law-abiding Baha’i community has been systematically reduced in size over decades through
Trump’s Iran Negotiations: Less Art of the Deal, More Art of Concealing Defeat | Council on Foreign Relations (opens the original)
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Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East. He later served as special representative for Iran and Venezuela in the first Donald Trump administration. Hamas’s assault on October 7, 2023, was the culmination of years of Iranian efforts to surround Israel with Tehran’s proxies. Hamas and Hezbollah controlled Gaza and Lebanon, Iran-backed Shia militias domina
To Base or Not to Base: The Iran War Exposes Flaws of U.S. Basing in the Middle East | Council on Foreign Relations (opens the original)
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Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East. He later served as special representative for Iran and Venezuela in the first Donald Trump administration. The conflict between the United States and Iran has illuminated a factor in U.S. policy that received too little attention until this year: the U.S. basing pattern in the Middle East. U.S. bases in the regio
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