Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic
"We’re just rife with cash and it has led to a decent amount of guilt.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan, CapX
The one silver lining of Covid has been rehearsing for a potentially far worse outbreak.
Johan Norberg, Spectator
A ‘temporary’ expansion of government power is hardto reverse
Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor
For the Blue and White Party, the normalization agreement with the UAE is yet another justification for continuing its complicated partnership with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Andrew Bacevich, Los Angeles Times
Americans have lots on their minds these days — a deadly pandemic, a devastated economy, urban unrest, a national reckoning with racism, hurricanes and wildfires and, at the highest levels of government, epic dysfunction. Oh, yes, and a presidential election. But they would do well to pay at least a modicum of attention to the latest plot twist in what used to be called the global war on terrorism.
Tyson Barker, Foreign Policy
The German government beat back the coronavirus pandemic—but has largely given up against conspiracy theories.
Zack Cooper, AEI
The Pentagon has just released the 2020 China Military Power Report, one of the leading sources of reliable information on China’s military. This year’s version marks the 20th anniversary of the report and provides a unique perspective on how China’s military has changed over the first two decades of the 21st century. Here are some key changes in the...
Garima Mohan, Berlin Policy Journal
A bloody border clash exposed how tensions are building between India and China. With Europe reassessing its own relations with Beijing, it should pay more attention.
Jonathan White, LSE Blog
For much of its history, the EU has been portrayed as an attempt to move beyond the ideological divisions present at the national level. Yet in recent decades, European integration has increasingly been criticised from the standpoint that it functions as an ideological project itself – whether as an expression of neoliberalism, federalism, or other ‘isms’. Jonathan White...
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
Will Donald Trump's presidency mark a major turning point in world history, or was it a minor historical accident? Trump's electoral appeal may turn on domestic politics, but his effect on world politics could be transformational, particularly if he gains a second term.
Michal Matlak, New York Review of Books
Interviewers are not always keen to sit down with Lech Wałęsa. His answers are not always clear, his line of thought can be difficult to follow, and his self-assurance is sometimes offputting. Yet there remains something truly fascinating about this man, so full of contradictions. The simple worker with a very basic education who rose to lead the biggest social movement in the Communist bloc; the charismatic leader who attracted the leading intellectuals... Читать дальше...
Thomas Traumann, AQ
Life in Brazil returns to normal, even if it shouldn’t.
Robin Harding, Financial Times
Shinzo Abe’s three arrows programme has valuable insights into what to do and not do.
James Stavridis, Bloomberg
NATO is caught in a combustible mix of oil, Libyan arms and longstanding grievances between Greece and Turkey.
John Lichfield, Politico EU
A. Chernyshev et al., Der Spiegel
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's condition is apparently improving as he receives treatment in Berlin. But was he really poisoned at the behest of the Kremlin? There is plenty to indicate that he was.
Richard Haass & David Sacks, Foreign Affairs
To Keep the Peace, Make Clear to China That Force Won’t Stand.
