Robert Shrimsley, Financial Times
Hardliners now pose the biggest threat to the UK leaving the EU.
Daniel Finkelstein, Times of London
This week the Labour campaigning group Momentum produced another of its very effective social media videos promoting and defending the interests of Jeremy Corbyn. This one was an attempt to argue...
Taavi Urb, Proceedings
Small states can use creative solutions to overcome challenges and build navies for coastal defense.
Megan Janetsky, New Republic
Depends whom you ask, and depends on what kind of help.
A. Oppenheimer, M. Herald
Following the Cuban script, Venezuelan dictator Nicols Maduro will try character assassination, because they know that fighting Juan Guaid's ideas is a lost cause.
Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs
The United States is not better for withdrawing.
Gustav Gressel, ECFR
Berlin's handling of the controversial Nord Stream 2 project reveals double standards and neglect of the pipeline's security repercussions.
H. Shah & J. Schaus, CSIS
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
Turkish officials claim they are waging an exemplary struggle against the Islamic State (IS), but their struggle appears ridden with black holes as IS militants are able to sneak into Turkey aided by smugglers, and IS suspects often receive a more lenient treatment than other prisoners.
Graham Allison, National Interest
To understand the value of the Hanoi Summit, remember what occurred between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik.
Emily Rauhala, Washington Post
China weighs in on an the ethics scandal rocking Ottawa.
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
As a non-native English speaker who works in the Anglosphere, though, I'm not worried about that; Americans and Brits are merely facing increasing competition from within their accustomed domain rather than from without.
Guy Verhofstadt, Project Syndicate
There is little doubt that US and Chinese industrial and digital champions will dominate large shares of the global economy in the decades to come. But whether they will be competing with European multinationals depends on the EU's willingness to update its antitrust policies and expand its digital strategy.
Christian Esch, Der Spiegel
Yulia Tymoshenko was once Europe's best-known political prisoner. Now, five years after the revolution in Ukraine, she is hoping to win the country's presidential election. Is she too rooted in the old system to win?
David Herman, NS
Isaiah Berlin was one of the best-known intellectuals in post-war Britain. A leading philosopher and historian of ideas, he broadcast on the BBC, was a prolific essayist and received numerous awards. But there is a curious twist. As the waspish Oxford don Maurice Bowra famously said, like Our Lord and Socrates, he does not publish much.
David Graham, The Atlantic
A new book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland is a detective story about an unsolved murder. It's also an examination of the cost of achieving peace.
Graeme Dobell, The Strategist
The vast construct of the Indo-Pacific and the limited grouping of the Quad (the US, Japan, India and Australia) share a few significant traits. Both are attempts to define and direct the emerging regional power ...
Wolfgang Mnchau, Financial Times
Berlin is paying for its political choices on public sector debt reduction
Arthur Brooks, New York Times
The problem in America today is not incivility or intolerance. It??s something far worse.
Adam Tooze, Foreign Policy
The EU has committed to outsourcing its dirty work to authoritarians in the Middle East and Africaand to confusing dependence for maturity.
