Frank Snowden with Council on Foreign Relations
Owen Jones, Guardian
As millions are ‘encouraged’ to return to work, there is a glaring divide between those who can stay at home and those who can’t.
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail
Francis Fukuyama, The American Interest
The coronavirus is unlikely to clear the decks for long-term policy reforms. If anything, it may put them further out of reach.
Robert Lighthizer, New York Times
The pandemic, and Trump’s trade policy, are accelerating a trend to bring manufacturing back to America.
Katherine Voyles, War on the Rocks
We’re in the middle of experiencing COVID-19 and we’re not sure how it will end. In the face of this deep uncertainty, we seek indications about how things might turn out. The powers and limitations of fiction, especially fiction about pandemics, are on full display today. Fiction about past outbreaks, with completed story arcs and rounded out finishes, show us endings when we are still in the middle of an outbreak. Even fiction about a pandemic that is... Читать дальше...
Afif Abu Much, Al Monitor
Contrary to past emergency situations, the COVID-19 crisis seems to have helped improve the relationship between the Jewish and Arab communities.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/05/israel-arabs-benjamin-netanyahu-yitzhak-rabin-joint-list.html#ixzz6MB8dDS5t
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
The US and China are not merely failing to provide global leadership, they are obstructing the cause of multilateralism.
Alex Vines, World Politics Review
The announcement in late April that Guinea-Bissau’s prime minister, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, and four other senior government officials had tested positive for the coronavirus was just the latest crisis for the fragile West African state. Guinea-Bissau has experienced four coups—the most recent one in 2012—and 16 attempted coups since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974.
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Mike Gallagher, National Review
The U.S. must show its support for the democracy that defies the Chinese Communist Party.
Sarah White, RealClearWorld
On April 19, even as the pandemic disrupted Europe, it was reported that Russia had intercepted a U.S. Navy aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea. The U.S. and Russian governments issued conflicting statements on the incident. Washington stated that the Russians had flown in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner when intercepting the Navy plane. The Russians denied this, claiming that they were simply escorting the aircraft.
Tyson Barker, Foreign Policy
Berlin’s floundering tells an ominous story about Europe’s technological leadership during the pandemic—and afterward.
National Endowment for Democracy
This report explores the compromising effects of sharp power on the civil society institutions that democratic societies depend on for knowledge production, including universities, publishers, and think tanks. Authoritarian regimes—China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and...
Sergey Sukhankin, Riddle
Russia`s Arctic territories are large, sparsely populated, and resource-endowed. The area generates up to 14% of Russian GDP, yet is beset by economic, social, political and ecological problems. Administratively, it spans Murmansk Oblast, Chukotka, Yamalo-Nenets and Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Republic of Karelia and Komi. Much has been written and will still be written of the geo-economic and geopolitical importance of this vast area. Читать дальше...
Andreas Kluth, Bloomberg View
By undermining Europe’s top court, Germany’s constitutional judges may have opened Pandora’s Box.
