Erin Durkin, Guardian
Four members of Venezuelan national guard have defected as a second person dies from injuries when military opened fire on protesters Friday
D. French, NRO
It looks like Donald Trump has changed his mind again with Syria.
Jack Detsch, Al Monitor
With the Islamic State down to its last few miles in Syria, the Pentagon hopes to get the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to assist with the American withdrawal.
Dov Zakheim, National Interest
It is a shame that demagogues in both countries are doing their best to wreck Israeli-Polish relations.
Heather Conley, CSIS
Ryan Berg, RealClearWorld
Quentin Sommerville, New Statesman
Its fighters may have behaved like a terrifying army but the self-styled caliph, Abu Bakhr al-Baghdadi, who is still at large, also commanded battalions of bureaucrats. Serving under the black flag, the IS proto-state had ministries of health, justice and even foreign affairs. They left behind scores of documents, some revealing military secrets, but most containing a steady and neat record of alms to the poor, widows and veterans. The Baathist origins of many... Читать дальше...
Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View
A defeat for the president's Space Force proposal was typical and telling.
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
The surge of hatred is increasingly hard to ignore.
C. Obioma, Guardian
When the last dictator, General Sani Abacha, died in 1998, nearly everyone became persuaded that only a civilian will save us! A year later a civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, took office. Two terms later, Nigerians were so disillusioned that the next idea took off with even greater fervour: We have been ruled by military elites most of whom had no higher education. We need a president with a good education! So we got that in 2007, in Umaru Yar'Adua, who had a master's in chemistry. Читать дальше...
M. Tanchum, Jer. Post
As long as the collision between China??s agenda in Xinjiang and Pan-Turkic solidarity forms an inherent limit to Sino-Turkish cooperation, Turkey will shy away from China's Belt-and-Road initiative.
Andrew Michta, The American Interest
The growing problems in the Transatlantic community long precede the Trump Administration, Brexit, and the rise of populist movements.
Jackson Lears, London Review of Books
FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought an extraordinarily effective style of leadership to the crises of the Great Depression and the Second World War: a combination of charm and exuberance that inspired millions of Americans with hope in grim times and allowed him to pursue skilful . . .
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
He's challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are.
Andy Greenberg, Wired
Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency.
Jennapher Lunde Seefeldt, The Conversation
With ExxonMobil set to begin oil production in Guyana next year, this tiny South American country will soon become unthinkably rich. But neighboring Venezuela shows how an oil boom can go bust.
Jos Crdenas, Foreign Policy
Thoughtful U.S. policies could help restore Venezuela's democracy.
Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative
Rather than seeing 'far into the future,' American elites have struggled to discern what might happen next week.
Umair Jamal, The Diplomat
Who benefits from the Pulwama attack?
Robert Zaretsky, Zocalo Public Square
There has been, quite literally, much ado about nothing of late. Shadowing the rise of Donald Trump is the rise of what Friedrich Nietzsche called the unc
Janan Ganesh, Fin. Times
Looking back, pivot was always a silly word for the transfer of American attention to Asia. Minted by Barack Obama's administration almost a decade ago, it implied athletic speed, when so epic a process can only ever be slow, fitful and liable to interruption by events elsewhere.
Adriana Abdenur, AQ
Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in Latin America have unveiled ambitious crime reduction plans. Despite coming from both left-leaning and right-wing governments, these packages have a surprising common denominator: They prescribe an intensification of the mano dura approach to public security that entails an ever-tougher stance on law enforcement and a heavy reliance on the military.
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
This year??s Munich Security Conference ended as it begun: a bickering West reluctant to address the new geostrategic realities.
Jeff Spross, The Week
The president's currency policy is in free fall
Andrs Caizlez, Global Americans
Juan Guaid, who only a month ago was little known on the international scene, has positioned himself as the leader of a generation of service-oriented young Venezuelans who today represent the best option for unleashing a democratic transition in the country.
