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In “From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine,” authors Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man present concrete steps for how to transform Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system into a government that provides for the equal rights of all people in Israel-Palestine. The authors explain that their blueprint is not a plan for achieving national self-determination; it is a plan to create the conditions under which achieving self-determination and deciding political issues of governance are possible.
Join the authors in a discussion with Annelle Sheline, research fellow at the Quincy Institute, about the failures of the Oslo process and the need for a fundamentally different approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict that centers justice and equality.
These developments raise the question of whether the longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity, which contains the possibility of U.S. military intervention to defend Taiwan against China, remains the best approach to preventing war over the island.
Quincy Institute senior research fellow Michael Swaine recently published two policy briefs arguing that Taiwan is not a sufficiently vital interest for the United States to go to war over. He contends that Washington should begin transitioning to a policy beyond strategic ambiguity — a new approach that seeks to enhance support for Taiwan but rules out the possibility of joining a war over the island.
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In “From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine,” authors Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man present concrete steps for how to transform Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system into a government that provides for the equal rights of all people in Israel-Palestine. The authors explain that their blueprint is not a plan for achieving national self-determination; it is a plan to create the conditions under which achieving self-determination and deciding political issues of governance are possible.
Join the authors in a discussion with Annelle Sheline, research fellow at the Quincy Institute, about the failures of the Oslo process and the need for a fundamentally different approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict that centers justice and equality.
These developments raise the question of whether the longstanding U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity, which contains the possibility of U.S. military intervention to defend Taiwan against China, remains the best approach to preventing war over the island.
Quincy Institute senior research fellow Michael Swaine recently published two policy briefs arguing that Taiwan is not a sufficiently vital interest for the United States to go to war over. He contends that Washington should begin transitioning to a policy beyond strategic ambiguity — a new approach that seeks to enhance support for Taiwan but rules out the possibility of joining a war over the island.
Quincy Institute is an independent, nonprofit think tank. To support our work:
Help fund our research: quincyinst.org/donations
Read our reporting: ResponsibleStatecraft.org
TikTok: / quincyinst
Twitter: https://x.com/QuincyInst
Facebook: / quincyinst
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Website: quincyinst.org
