M. Heikkila, Pol. EU
Sweden wants Amazon’s cutthroat efficiency to adapt to its labor and sustainability protections.
S. Sierakowski, Project Syndicate
After showing relative restraint on the night of Belarus's fraudulent presidential election, police and security forces have now started going on the offensive against opposition protestors. And, despite EU sanctions against the regime, they are using ammunition supplied by a Polish company.
Wade Davis, Rolling Stone
Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era
A. Montalvan, Al Jazeera
Duterte's new anti-terror law is strikingly similar to the draconian security legislation China imposed on Hong Kong.
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
The diplomatic track ongoing between Turkey, Malta and Libya’s Tripoli government has sparked questions whether Valletta’s diplomatic support can serve as a much needed jumping point for Ankara to break the Libya stalemate, but the European country’s only focus in the talks seem to be limited with prevention of illegal immigration.
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Sreeram Chaulia, The Hindu
Self-reliance is the theme of India’s 74th Independence Day. This concept is commonly associated with the economy and production of key goods and services within the country in light of the global ‘supply shock’ caused by the pandemic. But it also has a parallel dimension in the domain of foreign policy. If the domestic goal is to reduce dependence on imports for critical commodities, the foreign policy corollary is to...
A. Vassigh, W’crunch
The powers that be responded to the pandemic with an array of life-altering directives that, to an astonishing degree, people quietly accept. So what happens next?
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Even if Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as US president, Europe will have to learn to carry its share of the burden.
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
The latest crisis in the Mediterranean appears entirely driven by Ankara’s desire to create a crisis where none existed before.
J. Mitnick, FP
Netanyahu might be seeing an opportunity to evade his corruption trial by dissolving his coalition and calling yet another election.
Robert Blackwill, National Interest
Henry Kissinger observes that the current state of U.S.-China relations reminds him of the period before World War I when Europe’s leaders would not have made the decisions they did if they had known the horrible consequences—twenty million dead.
Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs
A. Garza, L. Collins & D. Kramer, Bush Center
Former Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza, the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative's Laura Collins, and Florida International University's David Kramer discuss the destabilizing forces of nativism, protectionism, and isolationism.
Mark Leonard, ECFR
The shock of covid-19 in Britain may end the culture-wars politics set off by the Brexit referendum – which split the country between Leave and Remain, town and city, old and young.
Alexi Drew, WPR
In mid-July, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were hijacked by a small group of hackers, apparently led by a teenager in central Florida. They were able to take over some of the social media service’s most prominent handles—including those of Kanye West, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk—and use them to scam...
Paul Goble, Jamestown
Mahatma Gandhi may never actually have said of colonized peoples that “first, the imperial authorities ignore you; then, they laugh you; then, they fight you; and then, you win”; but this observation nonetheless aptly fits Moscow’s evolving relationship with the Circassians. The Russian center had previously dismissed and derided this group, but now it finds itself compelled to both combat the Circassians in their North Caucasus homeland as well as attack member of their... Читать дальше...
M. Jorgensen, Lowy Institute
By contesting basic principles of international law, China
is doing far more damage than is often recognised.
Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty
The idea of the past as nothing but a nightmare, specifically one of injustice, is probably the prevailing historiographical trope of our time. Certainly no one could reasonably claim that nightmares have been lacking in human history. And yet, at the same time, it is undeniable that there has been progress: very few of us would care to take our chances in the kind of conditions, either political or material, that prevailed in, say, the 16th century.
