David Pilling, Financial Times
The platform's ban shows the problem with operating across multiple jurisdictions with differing politics and norms
Vladislav Inozemtsev, Riddle
Half a year ago, I wrote an article analyzing how Russian authoritarianism is maturing within its power structures. But it still left me wondering why Russian society allowed for the path of development that we all know.
Steven Pifer, The Bulletin
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16, at a time when US-Russian relations have hit a post-Cold War nadir. Biden can use the meeting to make clear the kinds of Russian actions that he considers unacceptable and for which there will be consequences while opening cooperative channels on the few issues where US and Russian interests converge. The White House seeks to keep expectations modest, correctly so.
Henry Hill, Spectator
Will Boris Johnson resist Washington's bullying?
John Gray, New Statesman
When the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945, the central problem was how to live with the dangerous fruits of human knowledge. Many believed we could not manage the task, and expected imminent catastrophe. They were wrong. We kept our nerve, and civilisation survived. The world has changed irrevocably since the virus appeared, but we will muddle through again.
Matthew Rojansky, WOTR
President Joe Biden is not known for being "soft" on Russia. In 2011, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't have a soul. Recently, he agreed with a reporter's characterization of Putin as a "killer." Putin, for his part, quipped in response, "it takes one...
Paul Brian, American Conservative
In April of this year, I was eating at a restaurant in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula when there was a shooting. Although the local media downplays such occurrences to keep tourism numbers up, they are actually quite common, especially in a large drug market such as Playa. I was sitting there with a date when men fired numerous handgun rounds in an attempted murder only several...
Matthew Gordon, World Politics Review
On May 18, the people of Somaliland celebrated the 30th anniversary of their decision to unilaterally declare independence. Like the 29 such occasions before it, the jubilant fanfare was tempered by a cloud of formal diplomatic exclusion. The government of this self-ruling republic in the Horn of Africa has yet to be recognized by any United Nations member state, despite offering functional, peaceful and inclusive leadership to its...
Mehul Srivastava, FT
Naftali Bennett made his name as a hard-right Israeli ultranationalist demanding more Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and harsher action against Palestinian militants.
Jonathan Guyer, American Prospect
The Biden administration has embarked on a global anti-corruption campaign. It should start with Washington.
Neri Zilber, Newlines
The very political figures Israel's longest-serving prime minister nurtured and elevated conspired to end his reign, not out of ideological resolve but out of exasperation.
R. Berg & M. Seminario, For. Policy
His arrests of opposition candidates could seal the country's political fate, but not if Biden fights back now.
Katy Balls, Spectator
Any hope that a solution to the Northern Ireland protocol could be found ahead of the G7 summit have been dashed. This morning, David Frost - the minister in charge of Brexit relations - met with European Commission vice president Maroš Šefčovič at Admiralty House on Whitehall to discuss the current impasse over Irish Sea border checks.
Robert Wilkie, 1945
On February 22, 1946, George Kennan, then a young American diplomat in the Soviet Union, penned a secret cable to the State Department. Kennan warned the United States faced an enemy dedicated to destroying its principal adversary by first weakening her allies through subversion, bribery, and intimidation and then achieving total military superiority.
Damon Linker, The Week
During his trip to Europe over the next week, Joe Biden can pronounce all he wants that "America is back." But his hosts will know it might not be true.
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Rajiv Shah, Foreign Affairs
Vaccinating the world will be arduous and expensive, but there is no time to waste.
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
The Chinese are keen to brush the historical reality of what happened in 1989 under the rug. Don't let them.
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Willis Krumholz, 1945
President Joe Biden recently met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in May, only the second in-person summit for the new U.S. president. The meeting focused on dealing with North Korea, denuclearization, cooperation on semiconductors, and climate change. But a change that was little noticed by the press could have big consequences. After the meeting,
Iván Llamazares, LSE
Pablo Iglesias, the leader and founder of Podemos, announced his resignation from politics following the Madrid regional elections on 4 May. Iván Llamazares assesses the impact Iglesias has had on …
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
There is no simple way to introduce the challenge that China's strategic presence and growing military capabilities pose in competing with the United States. China's capability to compete at given levels has generally increased radically since 1990 in virtually every civil and military area, and China has set broad goals for achieving strategic parity and superiority, although such goals are vague - and neither China nor the United States has published anything like... Читать дальше...
Stuart Lau, Politico EU
Orbán's government has invested heavily in a so-called "Eastern Opening" policy over the past decade, developing its links with countries such as China, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. At the same time, Orbán has nurtured friendly ties with the Kremlin, fueling discomfort among EU and NATO allies.
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Alex Hochuli, American Affairs Journal
It couldn't happen here." Pandemics and other threats to health security were supposed to be problems in and from the Global South. But the deficiencies Western states have faced in developing and executing coherent plans, coordinating state agencies, communicating with the public, or even just producing and storing sufficient medical and pharmaceutical equipment (to say nothing of the EU's scandalous vaccine rollout), have highlighted state failure in the very heartlands of global capitalism. Читать дальше...
Bradley Bowman & Morgan Lorraine Viña, FDD
Eager to assuage concerns about its growing power and portray itself as a responsible world leader, Beijing used its turn as president of the U.N. Security Council last month to publicize China's role in U.N. peacekeeping in Africa. Beijing emphasizes that China's contributions to U.N. peacekeeping are intended to...
