Jane Harman, RCW
Everyone knows that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I've spent three decades in the defense and intelligence space, and I remain vexed at how the policies designed to protect America are actually making us less safe. I call this "insanity defense:" doing the same thing again and again and expecting it to enhance our security.
David Uren, ASPI
The Australian and United States governments both ordered urgent reviews of their supply chains last week amid growing concern about their vulnerability to disruption by China.
PM Boris Johnson, The Times
It was in September last year that I felt the first stirrings of optimism about the coronavirus vaccine. I was at the Edward Jenner institute in Oxford, standing behind a scientist as she looked at
Tim Judah & Alida Vracic, Balkan Insight
Rural decline is often seen as inevitable in the Balkans - but one small hamlet in southeast Serbia has shown how to buck the trend.
Hal Brands & Zack Cooper, Foreign Affairs
Great-Power Competition Can't Be Won on Interests Alone
Asli Aydıntaşbaş & Cinzia Bianco, ECFR
Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are engaged in a decade-long feud that is reshuffling the geopolitical order in the Middle East and North Africa.
Mohamed Younis, Gallup
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-five percent of Americans now say China is the greatest enemy of the U.S., more than double the percentage who said so in 2020. That year, Americans were equally as likely to say either China or Russia was the U.S.'s greatest enemy. The current shift coincided with a period when the global economy and human activity were severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.
David Lepeska, The National
Turkey and Greece are set to hold their second round of exploratory talks on the eastern Mediterranean and maritime issues starting on Tuesday in Athens, just as regional tensions, and frustrations toward Ankara, may be on the wane.
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
Regional elections deliver a blow to Angela Merkel's party.
Frederick Deknatel, World Politics Review
It is probably the most documented conflict in history. Since Syria's civil war began following the Assad regime's suppression of a popular uprising a decade ago, activists, citizen journalists and everyday Syrians alike have uploaded videos and images of the conflict for anyone around the world to see. Reporters may have been widely barred from the country, but every day of the war, firsthand material has been broadcast from Syria on social media and on video-sharing sites like YouTube. Читать дальше...
International Crisis Group
15 March marks the Syrian uprising's tenth anniversary. In this Q&A, Crisis Group's Syria expert Dareen Khalifa says that with a political solution out of reach, consolidating the existing ceasefires and alleviating human suffering is the best possible way forward for now.
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P. Vaddi & A. Panda, Defense One
Threat inflation tends to lead to poor policy outcomes. When it comes to China's nuclear arsenal, it's important for American leaders to accurately understand the nature of the problem. Nuclear risks between the United States and China manifest differently than those of the past U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition, or that of the United States and Russia today.
Indian Express
It makes clear it is neither military alliance nor anti-China coalition. Broad-based agenda makes forum more sustainabca
Morten Soendergaard Larsen, Foreign Policy
Pyongyang's hacker armies have shown a proficiency to finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them—and the world needs to be prepared.
The Diplomat
Aravinda Korala, SCMP
Three months, it seems, is a long time in geopolitics. I
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Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Pro. Syn.
President Macky Sall's government has cracked down violently on recent countrywide demonstrations and restricted freedom of speech. It should instead seek to protect Senegal's hard-won democratic gains by de-escalating tensions and promoting economic recovery.
Economist
he price of food has soared in Syria, leaving many of its people at risk of going hungry. Yet from his office in Qamishli, in the north-east, a trader describes how officials make it hard to bring wheat to market. His lorries must cross scores of checkpoints on their way to Damascus, the capital. Most demand fees. Kurdish forces charge by the tonne at the de facto border between the territory they control and that of President Bashar al-Assad.
Ben Hall, Financial Times
French president faces tighter fight as his far-right opponent adopts more mainstream positions
Stephen Maher, Maclean's
In March of 2020, Canadians started dying of COVID-19 and the country shut down. This is a comprehensive report on the country's mishandling of the crisis of the century.
