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Japan may also face a new journey. For years, the country’s role on the international stage has been limited to providing humanitarian aid. Now the country faces two choices: pulling back into a new kind of isolationism or casting off its pacifist principles, a direction the Abe camp has been campaigning for. Critics of the prime minister say his new assertiveness in foreign policy is what put Goto and Haruna Yukawa, another hostage killed a week earlier, at risk in the first place.
CNN's Nic Robertson rides along with Saudi border police as they patrol the border with Yemen.
Several of Saudi Arabia’s largest listed companies said they would pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, days after Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman ordered a handout to Saudi state employees to mark his accession.
"But I think my first job is to try and keep this country safe from terrorism and if that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes you don't always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that is the way I do it. And that is the best way I can explain it."
Another possible wave of reforms might be aimed not at resolving those long term issues, however, but at making the state provide better services and reduce corruption, say people who know the new king.
We have little sense of what Salman’s long-term goals are, or if he has any yet. His first appointments, however, do give a few indications of where he might be leaning.
Obama has succeeded in changing the underlying politics of the matter. The debate over Iran sanctions is no longer about Iran, but about war with Iran. Diplomacy with Iran is the best way of avoiding both a nuclear Iran, and bombing Iran. Any measure that undermines diplomacy, such as new sanctions, automatically enhances the risk of war. Passing sanctions on Iran used to be the safest political move in Congress. But today, imposing sanctions means supporting war, which is a move that carries a tremendous political cost. So high that Hillary Clinton chose to come out against AIPAC and Netanyahu instead.
Whether it is the war against the Islamic State or threats to Israel’s security, Americans have strong and often wildly different views about the Middle East and the U.S. role there, and we’re sure to see these expressed as election season gets into full gear. Yet Americans agree on many things about the Middle East, and political party differences don’t give the full story. Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland as well as a colleague here at Brookings, and Katayoun Kishi of the University of Maryland show that views of human rights, faith communities, and other belief systems and communities give Americans similar views, leading to clustering on seemingly disparate issues.
President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans.
Islamic State militants are withdrawing from areas around the Syrian town of Kobani, a group monitoring the war said on Monday, after Kurdish and Arab fighters met little resistance as they seized new ground overnight.
