Economist
Both sides need to step back
Scott Ritter, Amer. Conservative
Recently dispatched B-52s and ships are an act of theatrical bravado that ignore the real threat.
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Economist Patrick Chovanec says it could still work, but the president could play a much better hand by bringing in U.S. allies.
Shahryar Pasandideh, World Politics Review
In late March, China held an international fleet review to mark the Chinese navy's 70th anniversary. In addition to the large Chinese contingent, 13 countries sent warships to the port city of Qingdao, on the coast of the Yellow Sea, while some 60 countries sent delegations to participate in the commemorations. The fleet review provided an opportunity to showcase the various advances in the Chinese navy and served as another public display of China's growing military might. Читать дальше...
Amin Saikal, Project Syndicate
The Iranian regime has worked hard to strengthen its national security within a supportive regional framework, and would be no pushover in a conflict with the United States. On the contrary, Iran's response to any major military assault could result in an uncontrollable regional inferno.
Michael Barone, New York Post
Once upon a time, May 1 May Day was a day for working-class parades in factory towns. This year, it was a day for Joe Biden, to set off on his third presidential campaign in 32 years, to make n
Bret Stephens, NY Times
The U.S. doesn't need a big, beautiful border wall. It needs a real foreign policy.
Sanam Vakil, Foreign Affairs
The announcement that Iran will limit compliance with parts of the nuclear agreement is proof positive that the Trump approach is not working.
Ted Bromund, Daily Signal
What Britain needs above all is to believe that it can thrive among friends as an independent, democratic, and sovereign nation.
Geoffrey Alderman, Spectator
Is Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite? I began researching the answer to this question well before Danny Finkelstein's recent revelation in the Times that eight years ago Corbyn had written a glowing
Rowena Mason & Rajeev Syal, Guardian
Candidates say the party is almost in denial' over vote and will not publish manifesto
Maximilian Hess, Riddle
How a group of Monroe Doctrine enthusiasts found themselves negotiating with the Kremlin in America's own perceived backyard'
Ardiana Prishtina, K2.0
And the Good European Award goes to?
Aveek Sen, LobeLog
by Aveek Sen Iran recently announced a series of steps to reduce its commitments to the nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). It announced that, invoking articles 26 and 3
Fred Weir, CS Monitor
Russia is involved in Venezuela not because of interest in Nicols Maduro, but because it wants to curb what it sees as ??meddling?? by the US.
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, PONARS
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The days of political promise the Russian liberal opposition enjoyed during 2011-12 when the angry urbanites protested against the regime, are long over. The Russian progressive era failed without even starting. Instead, the Kremlin undertook a conservative turn promoting the type of identity politics that enabled it to generate popular support for the country's political leadership.
Maya Jasanoff, New York Review of Books
The first visit I made to Calcutta that I can remember was over Christmas in 1981. I was seven. It had been exactly twenty-five years since my grandfather Sudhir had taken a job at the United Nations, moving my grandmother and their three children from India to New York. They had left India expecting to return, but now all five were non-resident Indians with American lives who emerged every few years onto the sweating tarmac of Calcutta's Dum Dum Airport bearing duty-free chocolate and perfume.
Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Post
The people living in the South and the people living in Gaza have little choice and are not asked what they think should be done.
Bernard Avishai, New Yorker
The question of whether a war of attrition should be thought inevitable depends not on the truths that each side tells about the other but on the half-truths that each tells about itself.
Adrian Pabst, New Statesman
The 20th century marked the downfall of empire and the triumph of the nation state. National self-determination became the prime test of state legitimacy, rather than dynastic inheritance or imperial rule. After the Cold War, the dominant elites in the West assumed that the nation-state model had defeated all rival forms of political organisation. The worldwide spread of liberal values would create an era of Western hegemony. It would be a new global order based on... Читать дальше...
