Jon Hoffman

Jon Hoffman is a foreign-policy analyst at the Cato Institute and an adjunct professor at George Mason University.

Articles by Jon Hoffman

U.S. President Joe Biden, wearing a dark suit and holding sunglasses, embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photographers and other people are seen around them.

Israel Is a Strategic Liability for the United States

Argument

March 22, 2024, 10:07 AM

A protester sits cross-legged on the ground, wearing a keffiyeh, and flashes the victory sign. A fire rages behind the security gate of the U.S. embassy behind him. A person is seen behind him in the distance leaning over.

U.S. Middle East Policy Has Failed

Argument

January 11, 2024, 4:29 PM

Saudi women walk past a mural depicting Saudi King Salman (center), Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left), and late King Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman (right), the founder of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at a park in the capital, Riyadh, on Jan. 16.

The Arab Gulf’s New Nationalism

Analysis

August 7, 2023, 2:44 PM

A man wearing a traditional white Arab headdress stands inside a synagogue.

The Arab Autocrat’s New Religious Playbook

Analysis

April 11, 2023, 11:17 AM

The six men stand in a line holding hands with crossed arms, forming a chain of hand-holding.

The United States Doesn’t Need to Recommit to the Middle East

Argument

July 11, 2022, 2:38 PM

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan take part in a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, DC on October 13, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Washington’s Blank Check for the United Arab Emirates Must End

Argument

November 3, 2021, 11:48 AM

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sit slightly slumped in red chairs next to one another.

Neither Russia nor China Could Fill a U.S. Void in the Middle East

Argument

September 15, 2021, 9:45 AM

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