Karl Sharro, The Atlantic
What if columnists wrote about the U.K. the way they do about the Middle East?
Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View
In the days following Britain's vote to leave the European Union, a perceptible gloom settled over its capital. In Underground stations, over a beer after work, in sandwich shops at lunch, I could hear dismayed Londoners wonder how Brexit could be good news for anyone.Well it is good news, in the long run, for some people. Indian companies and exporters are at the top of that list.
Sean Miller, Campaigns & Elections
British elections have until recently been pitting American consultants from the same party against each other. In 2015, Jim Messina worked with the Conservative Party while David Axelrod consulted for Labour. But for the European Union referendum, U.S consultants were on the same team. Strategists ranging from Messina to digital consultant Ian Patrick Hines, worked for the Remain side, which suffered a historic 52-48 loss in Thursday's vote.
Ariel Ben Solomon, Jerusalem Post
Besides Hamas not being able to carry out military activity from Turkish soil, everything else stays the same.
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
Russian intelligence and security services have been waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against U.S. diplomats, embassy staff and their families in Moscow and several other European capitals that has rattled ambassadors and prompted Secretary of State John F. Kerry to ask Vladimir Putin to put a stop to it.
Mark Stanford, Daily Telegraph
The Norwegian model -- which also applies to Liechtenstein and Iceland -- would fulfil many key Leave demands. Britain would be free of Brussels bureaucracy, and free from the stifling effects of the EU's Common Fisheries and Agricultural Policies. We would remain a participant in the single market, without any of the trappings of political union.
Damon Linker, The Week
Merkel's grand progressive-humanitarian gesture has backfired badly -- rekindling and potentially intensifying the very nationalistic solidarity that progressives once hoped the EU would dissolve or erase.
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
The world is entering a period where once-robust democracies have grown fragile. Now is the time to figure out where we went wrong.
Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg View
The divisions revealed by the EU vote will be hard to heal.
Philippe Legrain, NY Times
LONDON â A few weeks before Britons voted on whether to remain part of the European Union, Michael Gove, one of the leaders of the Leave campaign, was asked why he should be trusted over the overwhelming number of economists and international authorities who opposed Brexit. âÂÂPeople in this country have had enough of experts,â he replied.
Emily Tierney, Independent
On Thursday, I too participated in an act of national insanity and voted to leave the European Union. This is how the next 24 hours unfolded for me. I'd checked the polls again in the morning, and Remainà was ahead, just as it had been for the majority of the campaign. Sensible people were going to vote in, and I could have my protest vote. For me, the polls reflected reality:à I live in London, and I'm in my mid-twenties.à I barely knew anyone else who was considering... Читать дальше...
Dimitri Simes, National Interest
It's in the U.S. national interest to explore better relations with Russia from a position of strength.
Laurence Norman, WSJ
The plan calls for additional pooling of resources and more coordinated defense investment planning and EU-wide action to bolster the bloc's defense industry. The proposal says enhanced EU intelligence and surveillance is needed, including investments in drones and satellite communications.
Michael White, Guardian
We hired Cameron to make decisions on our behalf but by passing the buck back to us he has created a dangerous political vacuum.
Tara Palmeri, Politico EU
Proposal in the works would give more powers back to national capitals.
Alex Shepard, New Republic
There are many takeaways from Great Britain's decision to leave the European Union, but one of the simplest is that referendums are bad and, ironically, anti-democratic. Referendums are, by definition, simple yes-or-no answers to problems that are enormously complicated, or that have enormously complicated ramifications that voters may not entirely understand.Ã
Tom Switzer, Sydney Morning Herald
There are very few definitive rules in politics, but one of them is that whenever a media and intellectual consensus emerges it is almost always wrong. So it is today when so many journalists agree that the Prime Minister's declining poll numbers stem from his failure to implement more progressive policies.
Jerome Fenoglio, Le Monde
PARISà â Britain's vote to leave the European Union is a major repudiation of Brussels. That's the plain, brutal truth of the referendum organized by British Prime Minister David Cameron. It means the EU's second biggest economy after Germany will leave the European project. It means that one of the few EU countries to possess a substantial defense apparatus and heavyweight diplomacy is abandoning Europe.
Tony Karon, The National
Tony Karon looks at what the Brexit vote means for the elites and the existing world order.
Steven Metz, WP Review
To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill, the United States may not be at the beginning of the end of its presidential campaign, but it is at the end of the beginning. After a long, tumultuous series of primaries and caucuses, the two major parties have settled on their presumptive nominees, to be confirmed at each party's convention this summer. Now American voters must look âÂÂunder the hoodâ of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, exploring both candidates' policies and inclinations in detail... Читать дальше...
Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg View
The divisions revealed by the EU vote will be hard to heal.
