Samuel Teixeira, RCWorld
Haiti welcomed a new leader this month after mercenaries, including some who received U.S. training, allegedly helped assassinate President Jovenel Moïse. While not directly tied to the Moïse assassination, U.S. government investments have helped create the infrastructure for operations like the one that allegedly led to the assassination of Moïse.
Francesca Ebel, Newlines
How mass disillusionment with the ruling Islamist party led to its undemocratic overthrow
Will Todman, CSIS
On Sunday July 25, Tunisian president Kais Saied invoked emergency powers, fired the prime minister, and suspended parliament for 30 days. Saied declared that he would govern alongside a new prime minister. In a televised address, he said the measures would remain in place "until social peace returns to Tunisia and until we save the state." Tunisia, long hailed as the only success story of the Arab Spring uprisings, now faces its most dangerous political crisis since the revolution a decade ago. Читать дальше...
Richard Haass, CFR
What makes these developments all the more frustrating is that we know what to do about COVID-19 and possess the means to do it. Several safe and extraordinarily effective vaccines exist. What remains to be done is to scale up production to meet global demand.
Harry Kazianis, National Interest
What are the factors that most affect Kim's grip on power?
Valery Dzutsati, Jamestown
On July 19, Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated that the deputy ministers in his cabinet will each oversee one of the country's eight Federal Districts. These subnational macro units are comprised, on average, of a dozen neighboring federal subjects (republics, oblasts, krais, etc.) in the Russian Federation. The decision followed the initial announcement made by President Vladimir Putin in June, during his phone-in press conference; but it appears... Читать дальше...
John Glaser, Cato
President Biden is playing hide the ball with America's Forever Wars. In his public pronouncements, he depicts his administration as diligently rolling back the numerous post‐9/11 U.S. military misadventures. He delivered a number of speeches declaring an end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan and specifying a timeline for a withdrawal of U.S. troops by September. In April, the administration reached a tacit agreement with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al‐Kadhimi to officially... Читать дальше...
Dan Wang, Foreign Affairs
How Washington Boosted Beijing's Quest for Tech Dominance
Steven Cook, Foreign Policy
If Westerners are shocked at political developments in Tunisia, it's because they described it as a straightforward success for too long.
Dinesh Bhattarai, Indian Express
The coming together of leaders, even at the height of tensions, in a region laden with congenital suspicions, misunderstandings, and hostility is a significant strength of SAARC that cannot be overlooked
Sukjoon Yoon, The Diplomat
The threat from North Korea (and beyond) has changed. The ROK-U.S. alliance must change as well to keep pace.
Sholto Byrnes, The National
Politics in Malaysia has always been noisily adversarial, as was shown when the country's parliament met for the first time this year on Monday, after a state of emergency was declared in January. MPs talked over each other, the speaker of the lower house received a verbal battering from the opposition, and some observers described the session as ending in chaos when the government refused...
Robert Wilkie, American Greatness
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, we have traveled from George H. W. Bush's New World Order to Trump's America First to the Biden Adminstration's rehash of Obama's "Don't do stupid stuff" policy.
D. Pletka & B. Schaefer, RCW
Colombia's Juan Carlos Salazar will have his work cut out for him when he takes over as Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO, on August 1. His predecessor, Fang Liu of China, is leaving the place a shambles.
Jacob Nagel & Mark Dubowitz, Newsweek
Senior Israeli officials will be in Washington next week to prepare for newly elected Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett's first meeting with U.S. president Joe Biden. Bennett knows the importance of public comity between himself and the American...
Carlos Escaffi, Worldcrunch
A source of major concern for investors and the economic and political elite, Peru's freshly-inaugurated leftist president is now trying to make nice. What happens next, though, is anybody's guess.
Carmen Geha, ECFR
The magnitude, nature, and timing of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion could not have been worse for Lebanon's faltering economy, pandemic-plagued hospitals, and crushed revolution. It felt like the final nail in the coffin for a generation of people whose parents endured a civil war and rebuilt their lives from scratch. "How many times will we have to go through this?", my friend asked as we walked over broken glass amid the stench of blood and sweat in the summer heat. Читать дальше...
Michael Shuman, The Atlantic
J.D. Tuccille, Reason
Without a Bill of Rights, the land down under quickly goes where America may eventually follow.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Following the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, and at a time when inequality is worse than during apartheid, mob violence is threatening the country's constitutional order.
Howard French, WP Review
When I became a correspondent covering the Caribbean and portions of Latin America—my first overseas job for the New York Times—in the spring of 1990, Cuba's then-leader Fidel Castro already seemed like an antiquated figure to many observers, a literal greybeard at the age of 63.
Robert Merry, Amer. Conservative
We can't know the answer to that, but it's worth pondering. In the meantime, we are left to console ourselves with the thought that Biden's action on Nord Stream 2, even if merely a recognition of reality, represented at least a recognition of reality. That's better than we got from Obama or Trump on that issue.
Hussein Ibish, Business Day
Constitutional crisis raises the question whether Islamist parties have a legitimate place in the democratic space
Mackenzie Eaglen, 1945
"More tooth, less tail" is a common refrain from defense leaders in search of more combat power as budgets have flatlined. No matter the topline, it seems defense continues to get less for more. Except when it comes to civilians.
