Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg View
The protest group has proposed a slate of candidates for the European parliament elections. It will further fragment the French far left and far right.
Masha Gessen, New Yorker
With its vast collection of surveillance devices, the museum promises visitors a journey back to socialism. The problem is that it is blithely morally neutral.
Miguel Otero Iglesias, El Pais
Divisions exist, and they are serious, but a calm and collected analysis, with historical perspective, shows a much better situation
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Guardian
The US and rightwing regimes may seek an excuse to intervene in Guaid??s support, says Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, who teaches at Birkbeck College
Katrina Lantos Swett, RCW
Ivan Krastev, New York Times
The Balkans has once again become a playground for great power politics.
Andy Puzder, Fox News
President Trump is exposing China's economic vulnerability, showing that the communist nation cannot maintain its rapid growth without it patently unfair mercantilist trade policies.
Endy Zemedines, Kathimerini
When Donald Trump nominated Wess Mitchell to serve as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs in July of 2017, the American press and foreign policy community had spent months being extremely critical of the US president for leaving such a key post vacant for so long.
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
While Venezuela's dictator Nicolas Maduro still controls the armed forces, his rival Juan Guaid widely recognized as the country's legitimate president has been able to unite the opposition, and has formidable economic weapons.
Dany Bahar et al, The Hill
The political crisis in Venezuela has reached a tipping point that may lead to a peaceful return to democracy or yet more violence and despair.
Mustafa Sonmez, Al Monitor
Declining production in key industrial sectors is seen as an omen that the worst of Turkey's economic crisis might still be to come.
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela's once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago.
S. Kinzer, Boston Globe
Winter is rolling into Syria, but many families have no oil or gas to heat their homes. American sanctions prevent almost all trade, including petroleum shipments.
Marc Pierini, Carnegie Europe
Four big issues will dominate Turkey??s policy agenda this year. The net result is growing uncertainty about the country??s reliability among its Western allies.
Deepak Gopinath, Yale Global
Steven Metz, World Politics Review
During the 2016 U.S. presidential race, then-candidate Donald Trump didn't talk much about the specifics of foreign and national security policy, with one exception: a pledge to defeat the Islamic State. Once elected, Trump ramped up the anti-ISIS military campaign that President Barack Obama had begun and increased support to local militias in Syria, including many Syrian Kurds, and security forces in Iraq. Eventually, this paid off. Through a grueling campaign led by the militias and the Iraqis... Читать дальше...
Benjamin Silliman, CFR
This is a guest post by Benjamin Silliman, research associate for Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier thi
John Wilson, First Things
A review of Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978.
Tom Chang, Washington Examiner
In his recent Washington Examiner op-ed, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, recently lamented Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Year's address, in which Xi vigorously insisted that Taiwan should rejoin China on China's terms.
Nick Butler, Financial Times
Further conflict could see the energy industry become the focal point of unrest.
Brian Hioe et al, ChinaFile
In a major speech in early January, China's leader Xi Jinping called unification across the Taiwan Strait the great trend of history, and warned that attempts to facilitate Taiwan's independence would be met by force. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen immediately condemned Xi's speech and countered that Taiwan absolutely will not accept one country, two systems,' Beijing's formula for governing Taiwan after a putative unification with the mainland.
