Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy
The United States wants to mend fences with NATO—and revamp the defense alliance to face new threats like China.
Council on Foreign Relations
Con Coughlin, The National
No vote has yet been cast, but already the outcome of Iran's upcoming presidential election is considered by many to be a foregone conclusion, with victory unquestioningly being claimed by hardliners.
Amberin Zaman, Al Monitor
Is any feasible deal on the S-400 deployment in Turkey in the works?
Mati Tuchfeld, Israel Hayom
Personal ambition, not ideology, is what led Naftali Bennett to the PM's Office. Once in office, his greatest challenge will be proving he hasn't abandoned his right-wing values.
Tom Rogan, Ex.
On Friday, the G-7 summit will get underway in Cornwall, England. But we're already getting a bit of news. On Thursday, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed to sign a new Atlantic Charter on the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Adnan Abu Amer, Al Jazeera
The latest confrontation with Israel saw Hamas emerge victorious and Fatah appear weaker than ever.
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Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
The belief that history brought it to power is one of the few ideological constants in the Chinese Communist Party's hundred-year saga.
Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
PARIS — Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump didn't see eye to eye on anything much. But in some ways, life was simpler for the French president before Joe Biden entered the White House.
Bill Wirtz, The Dispatch
The decision by the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords has the rest of the world thinking globally ahead of the Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP26) scheduled for November. Attending countries will discuss the ongoing process of reduction targets on global carbon dioxide emissions. But a look at the EU shows that in decentralized systems, changes are costly and require a considerable amount of political wrestling.
Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Thant Myint-U, Foreign Affairs
As the stalemate continues, the economy will crumble, extreme poverty will skyrocket, the health-care system will collapse, and armed violence will intensify, sending waves of refugees into neighboring China, India, and Thailand. Myanmar will become a failed state, and new forces will appear to take advantage of that failure: to grow the country's multibillion-dollar-a-year methamphetamine business, to cut down the forests that are home to some of the world's most precious zones of biodiversity... Читать дальше...
Kris Osborn, National Interest
It's not just NATO leaders and soldiers talking to each other. It's their platforms.
Anton Shekhovtsov, Mos. Times
If one sees Europe this way, what is the point of engaging in dialogue with it? It makes more sense to talk to the puppeteer, that is the U.S., rather than the puppets who have no ambition for global leadership. Or you can simply buy influence.
Kevin Rudd, Project Syndicate
Echoing recommendations made by earlier commissions that studied the growing risk of pandemics and the inadequate global system for dealing with them, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has released precisely the policy blueprint that we need. World leaders must not dither in implementing it.
