Jonathan Spyer, Foreign Policy
The fight to depose Assad is over. The battle over his regime's boundaries has no end in sight.
Emre Erdogan, GMF
As Turkey heads for municipal elections on March 31, there is an effort to understand how different factors, first and foremost the ongoing economic crisis, will impact voter behavior. A crucial, but the often neglected factor is political tribalization. While sociological cleavages or class-based alignments are still accepted as the most useful analytical tools for many political analysts, the current zeitgeist opens up avenues for more unorthodox approaches, such as taking... Читать дальше...
Carole Naggar, New York Review of Books
For their attention to everyday life and their tender spirit, Antanas Sutkus's photographs in Planet Lithuania often evoke the spirit of Robert Doisneau, Andr Kertsz, or Paul Strandbut Sutkus only discovered their work and that of other photographers of the humanist school much later in life, when he first traveled outside his country in 1992. Cultural isolation meant there was no access to photography books in Lithuania. Sutkus's vast collection of images... Читать дальше...
A. Fouad, Al-Mon
Some Egyptians have been calling for the government to seize Turkish and Qatari assets, but so far that hasn't seemed to sour foreigners on Egypt's investment offerings.
Jed Babbin, Washington Times
The war between India and Pakistan over the possession of Kashmir simmers constantly but doesn't boil. It flames but doesn't explode for one overarching reason: Both nations have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. India and Pakistan have concluded that, although their peoples and leaders obsess over Kashmir, control over the region isn't worth a nuclear war between them.
Peter Mller & Jrg Schindler, Der Spiegel
Any Article 50 extension delaying Britain's withdrawal from the EU would come with its own set of problems. There is plenty of disagreement among the remaining 27 EU member states on how long the delay should be.
Arthur Herman & Lewis Libby, Hudson
US must react firmly to Beijing's growing maritime reach or risk losing out...
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Reason
Fretting over deficits and intellectual property will do no good and much harm.
Sean Kelly, SM Herald
Scott Morrison meant well. But what he said was absolute rot.
Graeme Wood, The Atlantic
The New Zealand shooter's text is unoriginal, but the ideology is potent.
M. O'Toole, NS
Can England get out of Ireland, or indeed can Ireland get out of England? Every 17 March, Kate Middleton dresses in green and travels to outer West London to ceremonially affix a sprig of foliage to a large dog. The canine in question is Domhall, a wolfhound who serves as the mascot of the Irish Guards, a senior regiment of the British Army. Usually after this gesture is performed she and her husband, who is known as Baron Carrickfergus when in Northern Ireland, ceremonially swig Guinness for the cameras.
Jessica Batke, ChinaFile
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's flight from Tibet. His departure exposed the rift between the Tibetan faithful and the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), one which has not closed in the six decades sinceand which threatens to become even deeper once the current Dalai Lama, 83-year-old Tenzin Gyatso, passes on.
Miglani & Jorgic, Reuters
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said.
L. Shriver, Spec
In my 2010 short story Prepositions', a woman has lost her husband not in 9/11 but on 9/11 when coming to the aid of a family whose distress had nothing to do with the World Trade Center. Composed
Jacob Aasland Ravndal, Foreign Policy
The attack in New Zealand was inspired in part by the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but the real threat is lone wolves lurking
Peter Mattis, WOTR
Can Angela Merkel persuade China not to spy on Germany? German magazine Wirtschaft Woche is reporting that she is trying to do just that. The report seems
Andrew Rawnsley, Guardian
European leaders now get to dictate terms to a supplicant Britain
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Politico EU
Washington and Brussels fear Rome is getting too close to China.
Judy Twigg, TNI
These sanctions were supposed to punish Moscow's elite, but instead they've spurred economic development and patriotism.
