Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
The West is ignoring an ongoing crisis in Egypt, as painful austerity measures stoke outrage against the Sisi government.
Will Moreland, Vox
Turns out this isn't the first time Russia has done this sort of thing.
Gordon Chang, World Affairs Journal
China's Communist Party has begun its Sixth Plenum meetings on Party rules and standards, and its outcome may shed light on whether Xi Jinping has been successful in consolidating his power.
David Bosco, FP
With three African countries giving notice that they intend to abandon the ICC, a coordinated exodus might soon be coming.
Fabio R. Fiallo, RCW
They are so recent, and yet they seem so far away; those 20-odd years during which the United States happened to be the sole hegemon of global stature. Now,à a new cold war between Moscow and Washingtonà is taking shape at an alarming pace. Never, since the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, has direct military confrontation betweenà Russia and the United Statesà --à and not only conflict through proxies -- appeared to be as plausibleà as it looks today.
Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz
Despite the claims that the battle is proceeding as planned and that all targets have been achieved, some even ahead of schedule, the reality is that the forces are proceeding very slowly. The battle forà Bashiqa is already in its third day, with the Peshmerga having cleared only a small part of the town. This battle, one of many before the actual battle of Mosul, is far from over.
Maysaa Shuja al-Deen, ALM
The recent missile attacks on U.S. vessels off Yemen's coast as well as the limited U.S. response suggest that Washington may be disengaging from the war in Yemen and putting pressure on Saudi Arabia to follow suit.
Barkha Dutt, WP
If she's elected president, Hillary Clinton may need to do some plain-speaking with Pakistan much sooner than she had bargained for.
Dominique Moisi, Project Syndicate
Throughout the Cold War, George Kennan's policy of containment shaped the West's approach to the Soviet Union. At a time when Russia is bombing Aleppo, occupying parts of Ukraine, and meddling in Western politics, a new containment doctrine is needed.
Paul Pillar, National Interest
The current election campaign has done more to set back U.S. foreign relations, and the cause of good foreign policy, than has any other American presidential election within memory.
James Holmes, Foreign Policy
Why asymmetric warfare on the high seas is so tricky for great powers.
Michael Khodarkovsky, New York Times
Propaganda-driven war hysteria in a vast land with imperial nostalgia, one-man rule, ethnic divisions and a weak economy cannot be taken lightly.
Robert Lieber, World Affairs Journal
Retrenchment and disengagement have not yielded peace, stability, or global orderâÂÂrather, growing instability, expanding terror's reach, surging floods of refugees, and intensifying civil war.
Tanja Hofbauer, Worldcrunch
BRAUNAU AM INN â With its church spires and colorful facades, my hometown has a certain postcard charm. But growing up in this corner of northern Austria, near the German border, I learned early that my town was well-known for a very different reason: Adolf Hitler was born here. In school
Will Edwards, The Cipher Brief
With a familiar turn of phrase that still finds the world collectively raising its eyebrow, Rodrigo Duterte has added to his list of people and organizations that he feels should âÂÂgo to hell.â The latest to earn this distinction is the
Josh Lowe, Newsweek
The LPGU's program is sober, and strikingly different from the populists surging across the West.
Jakub Eberle & Benjamin Tallis, Politico EU
Relying on the West to solve problems only makes them worse.
David Wise, Reuters
During the Cold War, the Soviet KGB coined the term âÂÂdesinformatsiya,â or disinformation, which the CIA defined as "false, incomplete or misleading information" fed to various targets. Both the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in the same game, though the Russians played it far more vigorously.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The âÂÂModel Tâ internet developed without any real planning. I watched it grow, having no idea what it would become. It now contains our weapons, our hopes and our secrets. It wasn't meant to, but this has become a major vulnerability. Wars have been started over and with less.
R. Diamond, USA T.
America's spies and Democrats show an incredible lack of technological sophistication.
Fred Kaplan, Slate
The founders considered security provisions too much of a burden.Ã
