J. Carafano, Nat'l Interest
Real strategies are born of hard choices.
Rina Bassist, Al Monitor
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett announced yesterday that he intends to join Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid to form a government of change that will end the yearslong rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Richard Haass, ASPI Strategist
It's been a year and a half since we started living with—and too often dying from—Covid-19. Although the pandemic is by no means over, it's not too soon to take a step back and draw some preliminary conclusions from the experience.
Pavel Luzin, Riddle
When Yuri Borisov, the Russian deputy prime minister in charge of the military industry, announced that Russia would withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project and set up a national orbital station starting from 2025, this made sensational news. Apparently, the announcement came as a surprise not only to Russia's partners in the ISS, but also to Roscosmos itself. A few days earlier, the head of the Russian ISS segment had said...
Andrés Velasco, Project Syndicate
The 155 members of Chile's new constitutional convention must cast aside everything they stand for in order to do their job well. A generation reared on direct participatory politics - whether via Twitter, on university campuses, or in the streets - now must build a representative democracy
Douglas Macgregor, The American Conservative
On the first of October 1939, just three days after the fall of Warsaw and Poland's destruction at the hands of Soviet and German forces, Stalin summoned Turkey's Foreign Minister, Mehmet Şükrü Saracoğlu, to a meeting in the Kremlin. For a brief period after the First World War the two states shared feelings of antipathy for the West. Stalin's meeting with the Turkish minister changed this condition.
John Ramming Chappell, Responsible Statecraft
US security assistance to partner militaries for counterterrorism missions further destabilizes the region.
Max Hastings, Bloomberg
"History makes clear that such periods of tumultuous change come with great peril," they warn. "Great-power contests over hierarchy and ideology regularly lead to major wars. Averting this outcome requires soberly acknowledging that the Western-led liberal order that emerged after World War II cannot anchor global stability in the 21st century."
Gideon Rachman, FT
The slump in relations between China and Australia sounds like a small detail in the great picture of world affairs. But this is a corner of the canvas that merits close attention. It provided an early indication of China's extreme sensitivity to international calls for an inquiry into the origins of Covid-19.
Brian Whitmore, Atlantic Council
It has been called an act of state-sponsored air piracy, a hijacking, and a kidnapping. It has led European leaders to order EU-based airlines to stop flying over Belarusian airspace and to ban Belarusian carriers from flying over EU airspace or using its airports. It has isolated Belarus like never before. And it will almost certainly spark a new round of US and EU sanctions against the country.
H. Conley & D. Saric, CSIS
Years of engagement by both U.S. and European policymakers have been largely ineffectual in bringing Serbia and Kosovo closer to normalization. Taking into account present-day dynamics in both countries and the problems that have beset negotiation efforts to date, this brief outlines a new U.S. strategy toward Serbia and Kosovo. To break the current stasis, the United States should temporarily decouple the joint normalization process, creating separate bilateral... Читать дальше...
