Mark Whittington, The Hill
Joe Rafalowicz, Lowy Interpreter
Australia’s special ties with Pacific Islands and New Zealand
offer a chance to ensure mutual safety and prosperity.
Cal Thomas, Daily Signal
The destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent demise of the Soviet Union two years later lulled the West into a false sense of security. Many appeared to believe that an age of unending peace and prosperity had been ushered in.
Alex Ward, Vox
“It’s so mind-bogglingly dumb,” a former Navy SEAL told Vox about the plan.
Jim Webb, National Interest
There is no greater danger in military strategy than shaping a nation’s force structure to respond to one specific set of contingencies, giving an adversary the ability to adjust and adapt beforehand.
Edward Lucas, Times of London
As Beijing bullies countries around the world, the West should seize the chance to take a stand.
Freedom House
Stefano Marcuzzi, Carnegie
The EU must seize on the strategic opportunity presented by the coronavirus pandemic to take the initiative away from Russia and Turkey in Libya.
Shivshankar Menon, The Hindu
The most important improvements concern its national security structures and their work, and flexibility in thinking.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
A year ago, Iran marked its National Army Day with a flashy display of its military might. As new tensions flared with the Trump Administration, tanks and...
Ben Cahill, CSIS
The Covid-19 outbreak is wreaking economic havoc across the world, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are especially vulnerable. Oil revenues for the Gulf states will plummet for at least the first half of 2020. Both fiscal break-even oil prices (the price required to balance the budget) and external break-evens (the price required to keep the current account at zero) show large imbalances this year.
Ethan Paul, Responsible Statecraft
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s feature story in the latest issue of The Atlantic, “How China Sees the World,” is already drawing comparisons to George Kennan’s 1947 magnum opus on the Soviet Union, “
S. Carney, SMH
For 20 years, Australia had existed comfortably in a fog of delusion. Successive governments and most Australians convinced themselves that the emerging world order was one in which they could do pretty well.
Amy Mackinnon, FP
A coup attempt by a U.S.-based security contractor looks like a propaganda victory for the Venezuelan president.
David Gunnluagsson, Spectator
May 10, 1940 is known in Britain as the day when Winston Churchill became prime minister. In my home country of Iceland that same day, 80 years ago, is remembered for a very different reason. On the day Churchill took control of defending the United Kingdom against invasion, Iceland was invaded: by the United Kingdom.
Aryaman Bhatnagar, WPR
At the same time, it is not inevitable that China’s influence among poorer European countries, like those in the 17+1 grouping, will continue to increase. Many of these countries have already complained that some of China’s past promises have gone unfulfilled. In reality, Chinese flows of
Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council
On this week’s 70th anniversary of the European Union’s beginnings with the Schuman Declaration, the project that was launched to end centuries of war is in an existential struggle with a pathogen that knows no borders.
Wolfgang Münchau, Financial Times
A smart response would be for the EU to address the problems of the eurozone head on
Katharina Pistor, Project Syndicate
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, heedless of the political consequences for Europe and Germany, has issued a ruling that risks sacrificing the euro and possibly even the European Union. An institution that, under Germany's Basic Law, no one governs is now out of control.
