The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East

, | Sep 4, 2025

Jonathan Guyer on Background Briefing

Then finally we speak with Jonathan Guyer, program director at the Institute for Global Affairs at the Eurasia Group. A reporter and editor focused on foreign policy, national security, and the Middle East, he is an Arabic and Hebrew speaker and spent 5 years as a correspondent in Egypt. He is regular contributor at The New Republic, New York Magazine, and The Guardian among others, and we discuss his latest article at The New Republic, “America’s Gaza Policy Is a Bipartisan Catastrophe”.

Written by Jonathan Guyer

Jonathan is the Program Director of the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group’s Independent America program.

This post is part of Independent America, a research program led out by Jonathan Guyer, which seeks to explore how US foreign policy could better be tailored to new global realities and to the preferences of American voters.

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