Oh Young-hwan, JoongAng Daily
C. Nelson, National Interest
Harry Truman’s decision to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot be judged by modern-day nuclear war concerns.
Felix Chang, FPRI
Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. That raised concerns among U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific as to whether the new American president was intent on further retrenchment from the region at a time when his predecessor’s “pivot to Asia” had already proven disappointing. But the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing efforts to remake the terms of...
Charles Dunst, The Diplomat
President Trump has done damage to America’s image, but the U.S. can still secure its abiding regional interests.
Sholto Byrnes, The National
The US wants the region to gang up on China, but such ideas are fantasy
Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
In POLITICO interview, French president lays out his strategy.
Clara Ferreira Marques, Bloomberg
Vladimir Putin's support for Alexander Lukashenko paves the way for slow decline.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
The outgoing Japanese prime minister was right to reject appeasement
Neri Zilber, Foreign Policy
How a dispute over an arms deal complicates normalization between Israel and the UAE.
Mark Episkopos, TNI
This much seems clear: Even as Japan's political landscape stands on the cusp of seismic changes, the long-sought window of opportunity for a diplomatic ‘reset’ between Japan and North Korea remains elusive.
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs
France Gets the Spire It Seems to Want
Alex Wickham, Politico EU
British MPs return on Tuesday with a very busy few months ahead.
Michael Green & Nicholas Szechenyi, CSIS
Today Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan announced his intention to resign due to a recurring illness. He recently became Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and will step down about a year before his current term was set to expire. Abe’s successor will be determined in September after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) selects a new party leader and schedules a vote in a special session of the Diet (parliament), which the LDP controls. Читать дальше...
Barak Seener, The American Interest
Don Vito Corleone, Don Licio Lucchesi, Hyman Roth, and the coming international realignment.
H. Shatz, WOTR
Elizabeth Ralph, Politico
S. prestige could falter, the administration could take deadly risks, the world will have to rethink its alliances — and those are just a few of the possibilities.
P. Dickinson, Atl. Council
Is Vladimir Putin about to invade Belarus? This question has dominated geopolitical discussions ever since pro-democracy protests first broke out in the country three weeks ago following a deeply flawed Belarusian presidential election.
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Economist
Kumar & Constant, RCW
A recent explosion in Beirut captured headlines all over the world. It killed hundreds of residents and injured thousands more, and it has led to to yet another round of calls for political and economic reforms in Lebanon. While such reforms are...
Brad Glosserman, Japan Times
