Rachel Ellehuus et al, CSIS
Three Northern Perspectives on Balancing External Interests
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
BERLIN — Whoever wins the U.S. election, Europe has already lost.
Adam Tooze, FP
Divided government could mean four years of financial instability and stagnation.
Gillian Tett, Financial Times
Shareholders should learn lessons of adaptation from business leaders
Shelly Kittleson, Al Monitor
The Islamic State's gruesome killing of a sheikh and some of his relatives by rigging his corpse with explosives has led to security concerns in the multiethnic region bordering Iran, long a hotbed for extremism and susceptible to sectarianism.
Economist
But prisons are serving as a new incubator of extremism
Ethan Kim Lieser, National Interest
“What we do know is that North Korea’s fragile health-care system would be ill-equipped to deal with a full-blown outbreak of a virus that has taxed even the most sophisticated health-care systems in the world.”
M. Bryza, Atlantic Council
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan would be wise to embrace the political cover their Russian and Turkish counterparts might provide.
Jacob Nagel & Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
The Arab-Israel conflict appears to be waning. Three Arab countries—the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan—recently announced normalization agreements with Israel. More (Oman, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait and other African or Asian states) may soon follow. This suggest that Israel, an embattled country since its founding in 1948, is safer. But the reality is more complicated.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
No matter who becomes America’s next president, certain things will follow. The world will wonder what President Donald Trump’s foreign policy will be in his second term, or it will wonder what President Joe Biden’s foreign policy will be. Alongside this will be the eagerness of those Americans who are interested in the rest of the world wondering what the old or new president’s intentions will be. Nowhere will the wonder be greater than in Washington... Читать дальше...
Edoardo Siani, The New York Times
The protests can be tongue-in-cheek, but they are earnest, and they are dangerously daring given the severity of punishments for any criticism of the monarchy. They are also both cosmopolitan and exquisitely Thai. The symbols they borrow from the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2015 and last year — umbrellas, black T-shirts, flashlights in the night — have taken on a uniquely radical significance.
