Tom Greenwood & Owen Daniels, WOTR
The Pentagon has committed to competing with China and Russia — but it’s not training that way. If the United States is to be truly prepared for great-power competition, its forces need to train as they expect to operate in theater. The U.S. Cold War experience offers valuable lessons, positive and negative, about how best to equip the joint force to handle near-peer adversaries. Relearning the mechanics of great-power competition will require changing exercises and experimentation... Читать дальше...
Yevgenia Albats et al, Foreign Policy
President Vladimir Putin has transformed his country and its relations with the world. We asked 11 leading experts to look back at his 20-year reign and predict what the future may bring.
Antonia Colibasanu with Atlantic Anchors
This week, geopolitical analyst Antonia Colibasanu joins the Anchors to give an Eastern European perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for the broader Transatlantic community.
Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic
The country just reported zero new domestic coronavirus infections for the third day in a row. What’s behind its dramatic success?
Constantin Eckner, Spectator
Angela Merkel unveiled a new phase of Germany's strategy for dealing with coronavirus last night. Much of what she said was already widely known, but the nuances of what she announced were still revealing. Two households will now be able to meet up with each other. Football – albeit behind closed doors – is back on. Restaurants and hotels will reopen within the next few weeks. And people in care homes will be allowed one visitor. ‘All in all, it is a balanced decision’, Merkel said in typical Merkel fashion.
Stephen Roach, Financial Times
The death of inflation has been exaggerated and after the pandemic we may need it
Ilona Kickbusch & David Heymann, Chatham House
A weekly series of interactive webinars on the coronavirus with Professor David Heymann and special guest Professor Ilona Kickbusch helping us understand the facts and make sense of the latest developments in the global crisis.
Terry Glavin, National Post
Why is Canada the silent outlier among the world's leading democracies in not demanding an independent inquiry into the pandemic?
Zachary Paikin, Global Brief
For the past several years – if not decades – the international order has been situated in a period of transition. As such, the specific impact of the novel coronavirus on global politics remains largely to be determined. Nonetheless, it is possible to identify some early implications for Canadian foreign policy and international strategy.
James Crabtree, New Statesman
Daily updates pointedly break down the infections into subcategories, making it clear that only a small proportion of cases are Singapore citizens. Most are poor immigrant workers residing in dormitories.
Mark Katz, Resp. Statecraft
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has pursued an increasingly assertive — even aggressive — foreign policy. In addition to rebuilding Moscow’s influence over most, if not all, the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union, he has also revived Moscow’s great power role not just in the Middle East, but even in Africa and Latin America, which it had lost at the end of the Cold War. Putin has also gained friends in many European countries that have been American allies since World War II. Читать дальше...
A. Ibrahim, Center for Global Policy
As damaging as the COVID-19 pandemic has been in China and the West, it is set to devastate developing countries through death tolls, economic hardships and instability.
Tatyana Stanovaya, Moscow Times
Vladimir Putin has become increasingly disengaged from routine matters of governing and prefers to delegate most issues.
Matthias Gebauer et al, Der Spiegel
In the global jostling amid the coronavirus crisis, Beijing is extending its influence while U.S. President Donald Trump continues to squander America's leadership role. The pandemic could mark the beginning of a new Chinese era.
Daniel Drezner, Washington Post
The term soon became omnipresent in foreign policy discussions as its definition expanded in scope. It came to mean the foreign policy “establishment” that included those working in government, think tanks, and academia. Four years later, the term, like “globalization” or “neoliberalism” or “populist” or...
