Matthew Heiman, RealClearWorld
D. Slater & M. Tudor, FA
It turns out pluralistic nationalism isn't enough.
D. Linker, The Week
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is calling for realism and restraint in diplomacy
Karnitschnig, Pol EU
The woman nominated for Commission chief has plenty of critics back home.
Rafael Behr, Guardian
The Labour leader no longer looks like the hero who had Glastonbury calling his name, says Rafael Behr
Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic
In Greece, a cycle is ending, and the country is returning to political normality. But across Europe, the legacy of its crisis is still a factor.
Justin Shapiro, NRO
From George III, Louis XVI, and Napoleon, to Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping, meeting with unsavory leaders can advance American interests.
Alex Thurston, WPR
It may be the first peaceful transfer of power between elected heads of state since Mauritania won its independence from France in 1960, but the victory by Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in presidential elections on June 22 really represents the latest phase of control by a ruling clique of military officers and businessmen whose influence reaches back to the 1980s. With 52 percent of the vote, Ould Ghazouania former defense minister and the handpicked successor of outgoing President... Читать дальше...
David Keene, Washington Times
Good news and something bordering on the unique took place on June 22 in Mauritania of all places. Voters in this northwest African nation of less than 4 million went to the polls peaceably to elect a new president to succeed a retiring elected president.
Kenneth Pollack, RealClearWorld
Stephen Kollie, African Arguments
Following the 7 June protests, the organisers gave President Weah a one-month ultimatum to act. That deadline is fast-approaching.
C. Marang, WOTR
It's rare to hear firsthand accounts of daily life amid the conflict in Donbass. But we do have a few. The photographer Paula Bronstein captured the
Z. Kanno-Youngs, NYT
WASHINGTON Overcrowded, squalid conditions are more widespread at migrant centers along the southern border than initially revealed, the Department of Homeland Security's independent watchdog said Tuesday. Its report describes standing-room-only cells, children without showers and hot meals, and detainees clamoring desperately for release.
Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times
Police tactics of standing by while demonstrators trashed legislature seemed deliberate.
Mark Galeotti, Moscow Times
Opinion May was right to take the G20 meeting with Putin at Osaka, even if she hated doing so.
Peter Zeihan & Melissa Taylor, ZoG
President Donald Trump has a knack for making Prime Ministers and Presidents hope to remain unnoticed. It's a stunning ability given that national leaders aren't exactly wallflowers. The past few days have seen a flurry of news releases indicating the Trump administration has turned its focus to Japanese Prime Minister Shinz? Abe. Specifically, the DC community is abuzz with leaks out of the White House that Trump is considering abrogating the American-Japanese security alliance. Читать дальше...
James Wood, London Review of Books
Even at a place like Eton, it didn't seem likely that anyone in my year would actually become prime minister. At school, everyone is ambitious', everyone loudly stretching upwards, but perhaps true ambition has a pair of silent claws. None of us identified David Cameron as the boy . . .
Henri Fron, National Interest
Xi Jinping's unprecedented show of support to Pyongyang has made clearer than ever the limits of a sanctions-based policy that would fail to include engagement. Since Beijing accounts for the quasi-totality of the trade and aid bound North, it can single-handedly make or break the effectivity of the U.S.-led sanctions regime.
W. Hill & D. Kramer, The American Interest
Tiny Moldova remains stuck between East and Westbut an unprecedented new coalition offers a chance for change within its borders and beyond.
Philip Shull, Foreign Service Journal
To reach a new understanding with Beijing, we need to appreciate China's historyand the worldview and expectations that motivate its leaders.
