K. McFarland, RS
Sultan Qaboos bin Said died recently at the age of 79. The enigmatic Sultan skillfully led Oman since he overthrew his father, with Britain’s help, in 1970. Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, Qaboos’s 66-year old cousin and...
Harbans Mukhia, The Hindu
A consequence of civil society’s direct involvement is that it is refusing to buy the current regime’s divisive Hindu-Muslim formula. This formula has already fetched the National Democratic Alliance two terms in Parliament but seems to have hit a wall. Resistance began with society’s response to uncalled-for police brutality on students in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. And soon the chief target of resistance became the Citizenship Amendment... Читать дальше...
Aaron Stein, War on the Rocks
The United States got very lucky, but there’s no reason to think its luck will last. Any one of the Iranian ballistic missiles fired at Iraqi bases could have killed an American. President Donald Trump had, before the strike, warned that an attack would prompt a U.S. counter strike, purportedly at up to
William Hauk, The Conversation
More than merely tossing aside the EU, this vote represents a rejection of globalization and the implicit trade-off of some democratic control over economic policy for prosperity. It’s an exchange that more citizens across the world, including the United States, are unwilling to make – often believing they can earn the same gains without a loss of economic control.
Amy Wilentz, The Nation
Despite the current respite from months of protests and government violence, the country’s rampant corruption threatens to unleash chaos once more.
Akem Kelvin Nkwain & R. Maxwell Bone, AA
The government says a new bill removes Anglophone separatists’ reasons to fight, but what’s actually in it?
Stephen Rakowski, The National
Over a decade of worsening economic indicators has wreaked havoc on the African giant – and politics seems to be the root cause.
Andrew Green, WPR
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, this week to demand the government salvage the country’s cratering economy. Police met them with water cannons and tear gas, and dozens of demonstrators were taken to the hospital in the...
Richard Javad Heydarian, National Interest
Beijing has flexed is military and political muscles in its neighborhood of distrust again and again and again. But now, one of those neighbors has leverage over Xi Jinping's kingdom thanks to a precedent set by the Philippines.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
The Islamic Republic marks its forty-first anniversary next month. Historically, Washington has been able to inflict greater pain, but Tehran has shown a greater capacity to absorb it. The United States has figured out how to react to a militia or to kill a commander, but it still hasn’t figured out how, creatively or proactively, to deal with the nation of...
Weijian Shan, Foreign Affairs
Beyond these accomplishments, however, the victory rings hollow for both sides. The December agreement doesn’t mark a major breakthrough, nor does it come anywhere close to resolving the real contentious issues that separate the two countries. To reach the next phase will require each side to determine what fundamental concessions it might be willing to offer the other. But in the interests of Chinese and American prosperity—not to mention the health of the global... Читать дальше...
Gary Schmitt, The American Interest
On the ground, among the remarkable crowds, there was nevertheless a sense of foreboding among some Taiwanese about how these elections would turn out.
Amy Zegart, The Atlantic
The United States faces genuinely new global challenges—but tries to understand them using outmoded theories from a bygone era.
