Frederick Kempe, CNBC
To get there, however, Trump will have to navigate the greatest perils in U.S.-Iranian relations in recent memory ?? something he has done so far with a military restraint that has confounded his critics, Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe writes
James Dorsey, LobeLog
by James M. Dorsey China's infrastructure and energy driven US$1 trillion Belt and Road initiative involves risky bets across a swath of land populated by often illiberal or autocratic governments
Elsie Eyakuze, The East African
Countries that have been practising democracy are flailing about wildly.
Emily Ashton, B-Feed
While Johnson focuses on Number 10, rival parties in his west London constituency are gearing up for the biggest fight of their life.
Shiraz Maher, New Statesman
There were probably Arabs before there was Arabia, writes Tim Mackintosh-Smith in his extraordinary new survey of these peoples. After all, what does the word Arab even mean? For Arabs themselves the term remains elusive: the Egyptian writer and public intellectual Taha Hussein argued that the people to whom the label applied were in utter confusion over its meaning. This etymological uncertainty is not immediately cleared up by the historical record. The first reference... Читать дальше...
Joshua Keating, Slate
Can Boris bully Brussels and bulldoze the backbenchers in the Brexit battle, or will he blink?
Wolfgang Mnchau, Financial Times
Europe's leaders have failed to anticipate the risks of an overnight UK exit.
Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch
Could Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don't know if such a possibility has been on your mind, but it's certainly been on the mind of this retired U.S. Army major who fought in that land so long ago. And here's the context in which I've been thinking about that very possibility.
M. Kofman, Russia Matters
This week Russia and China conducted their first joint long-range military aviation patrol, an event of strategic significance as part of a pattern of growing military-to-military cooperation between the two countries. Moscow showed it was willing to take on greater geopolitical risk in the region for the sake of this relationship: As has been widely reported, the flight involved a dangerous altercation between Russian aircraft and scrambled South Korean fighters over disputed territory in the Sea of Japan. Читать дальше...
Berman & Snegovaya, Journal of Dem.
Across Europe and many other parts of the world, traditional parties of the left seem to be in terminal decline. While there are many reasons for this, we argue that the most important was the left's shift to the center on economic issues during the late twentieth century. Although this shift made some sense in the short-term, over the long-term it had deleterious, perhaps even fatal, consequences: It watered down the left's distinctive historical profile;... Читать дальше...
Economist
What Europe does now will be a test of its foreign-policy seriousness
Larry Diamond, The American Interest
If one foreign power continues to shred, on an ever-more daring basis, the integrity and inviolability of our electoral process, other foreign powers will draw lessons and follow. And they won't all be pitching in on the Republican side.
Michael Fuchs, Foreign Policy
Searching for the next holy grail of foreign policy is stopping the United States from solving the world's most pressing problems.
