Larbi Sadiki, Al Jazeera
For Ennahdha, in national politics - as well as party politics - important challenges loom on the horizon.
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Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Post
ENCOUNTERING PEACE: THIS IS not a shallow argument of one state or two states; the political solutions of the future will probably be much more complex.
Mmusi Maimane, News24
K. Andrabi & Z. Amin, FP
Under the smokescreen of electoral redistricting, New Delhi is using gerrymandering to politically neuter the region's Muslim majority.
Yun Sun, War on the Rocks
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and leaves a security vacuum there, is China moving in by cozying up to the Taliban? On July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a high-profile official meeting with a delegation of nine Afghan Taliban representatives, including the group's co-founder and deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. This was not the first visit by Taliban members to China, but the meeting was unprecedented in its...
Kenny MacAskill, Scotsman
The re-elected SNP administration's first 100 days are fast approaching, and they're resembling a government in power, but with no idea for what purpose.
Noah Gordon, Internationale Politik
Price-based or quantity-based mechanisms, which offer the more effective and fairer way to achieve carbon neutrality? In fact, the debate is somewhat artificial—EU climate policy needs both.
Christian Whiton, 1945
Did China cause the coronavirus pandemic?
Ngaire Woods & Anna Petherick, PS
OXFORD - G20 leaders will meet in Rome at the end of October, in part to discuss how to deal with future pandemics. But the truth is that their countries' actions have largely fueled the current one.
Speakman Cordall, FP
Two weeks after suspending parliament, what road map will Tunisian President Kais Saied gin up?
Gehrke & Treeck, Politico EU
Conservative insists he's up for the fight as Greens and Social Democrats close in.
Fred Kaplan, Slate
The only thing surprising about the Taliban's rapid advance is that anyone is surprised.
Paul Stronski, WP Review
The Taliban's rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan have surprised and unnerved many Central Asian officials. Particularly worrying has been the inability of government forces in the northern part of the country, long considered relatively resistant to the Taliban, to halt the insurgents' onslaught. Over the weekend, the Taliban captured Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan province, where they looted and burned the home of the controversial—and ethnically Uzbek—warlord Gen. Читать дальше...
Doug Bandow, National Interest
The worst case would be a bitter faction fight that turns violent, with military clashes and let loose nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
Stephen Bartholomeusz, SMH
How the world's second-largest economy and Australia's major trading partner fares in dealing with the Delta outbreak and the threat to its people, growth and stability may be of, not just great interest, but real consequence for the rest of us.
Jörg Schindler, Der Spiegel
Thousands of people died in the Northern Ireland conflict. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson now wants to put a stop to all court proceedings related to the violence. The families of the dead are appalled.
Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest
There is another possible future for Afghanistan, and while not pretty, it is strategically far preferable for the United States: a military stalemate, in which the Taliban holds some of the country and the government while friendly militias hold another big chunk.
