Daniel DePetris, National Interest
British politics have been upended by Brexit ever since that fateful day in June 2016, when the British public surprised the world and voted to leave the European Union. The last three years and seven months have consisted of two British prime ministers, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, trying to figure out how to implement the Brexit separation with the least amount of damage to the UK’s economic and diplomatic power as possible.
De La Baume & Piccinelli, Pol.
The center-right European People’s Party is the biggest winner from the Brexit reshuffle.
Justin Ling, Foreign Policy
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Navigating the outbreak in a world of endless unverified information.
J. Stephen Morrison et al, CSIS
The explosive outbreak of a novel coronavirus (now known as 2019-nCoV) in China’s Hubei province is advancing at a breakneck pace. The case count stands, as of early Tuesday, January 28, at 4,474, with 107 fatalities. Cases have spread across China and to more than a dozen other...
Aubree Gordon, Conversation
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern is a formal declaration from WHO that an ongoing outbreak or epidemic is a serious risk to multiple countries and needs concerted international effort in order to control the disease. PHEICs (pronounced “fakes”) have been called multiple times before and are used to help control outbreaks of disease.
David Smilde, WP Review
Juan Guaido is on tour and looking presidential, visiting some of the more than 50 countries around the world that have recognized him as Venezuela’s legitimate interim president. In the past two weeks, the 36-year-old opposition leader made an official state visit to Colombia; met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London; addressed the European Parliament in Brussels and met with the EU’s new foreign...
Gen. John Allen with Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
General John Allen, head of the Brookings Institution and former Nato forces commander, talks to Gideon Rachman about the importance of clear objectives and staying power in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
