Amanda Tapp, Cairo Review
The two rival powers have been at loggerheads about the spread of the novel coronavirus, but maybe it’s time they cooperate for the greater good.
A. Zaman, Al-M.
While many pious Turks and some Muslims throughout the world celebrated the decision to revert the world heritage site to its pre-Ataturk status, others warned of the move's potential to create further domestic polarization.
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James Kynge, Financial Times
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Amb. A. Antonov with J. Heilbrunn, TNI
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov participated in a Webinar with National Interesteditor Jacob Heilbrunn. They discussed a variety of issues including the current controversy over Russia’s role in Afghanistan and alleged bounties. Antonov declared, “We are in close contact with our American official colleagues and we are of course discussing all issues regarding this provocation used [and] published by some mass media in the United States.”
Austin Doehler, War on the Rocks
Plans were set for the White House to host talks between Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovar President Hashim Thaçi on June 27. The American side hoped to play a key role in resolving the dispute that has plagued the Balkans since Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. Kosovo declared independence nearly a decade after the end of violent conflict between the ethnic Serb-dominated Yugoslav military and the ethnic...
Shay Khatiri, Strategy Bridge
Timothy Sayle’s Enduring Alliance, which chronicles the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) history from inception until the collapse of the Soviet Union, is a timely and important book. Since that collapse, NATO has never been more important, as Russia returns to the stage as a revisionist power. European security—and American interests by extension—are in peril more every day, and the challenges...
Erin Maglaque, London Review of Books
urely it is a great wonder’, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote to his friend Francesco Vettori in 1514, ‘to contemplate how blind human beings are in matters that involve their own sins.’ But it isn’t really very strange. Few of us have the strength to face our flaws. Machiavelli knew that he was the real wonder: a connoisseur of depravity; an atheist who passionately hated the clergy, who thought the institution of the Catholic Church should be dismantled and... Читать дальше...
