Mark Galeotti, Moscow Times
The current electoral process, however rigged and policed, will help the next generation to shape Russia.
A. Kolesnikov, Carnegie
David Brewster, ASPI Strategist
A new ASPI report, The Pacific Fusion Centre: the challenge of sharing information and intelligence in the Pacific, finds that much remains to be done in this area. The report examines the Australian-sponsored Pacific Fusion ...
Scott Reid, The Walrus
Is Erin O'Toole trying to beat Justin Trudeau at his own image game?
Terry Glavin, National Post
Of the many obstacles that have been strategically placed in the path of the voting public's comprehension of where the parties situate themselves in the federal election campaign that's just now heading into its final lap around the track, there's nothing quite so peculiar as the cordon sanitaire Justin Trudeau's Liberals have been allowed to construct around any serious discussion of foreign policy.
Thomas Wright, Foreign Affairs
Why great-power competition and transnational threats amplify each other.
Daniel Hoffman, Cipher Brief
OPINION — On the morning of September 11, 2001, my then-CIA colleague Rob was in Manhattan on the subway, headed to a 9 a.m. meeting in the World Trade Center. At 8:46 a.m., moments before he exited the subway, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the Center's North Tower.
James Romm, The New York Review of Books
Like Tantalus, classical scholars are forever glimpsing things they cannot taste, or experience, themselves. Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient
Eberle, Hickmann & Medick, Spiegel
Angela Merkel's conservatives could be facing an historical debacle at the polls in this year's election. Their candidate, Armin Laschet, has been anything but inspiring, and his stumbles could have deep consequences for the stability of German politics.
Vanessa Rubio, Am. Quarterly
The government's latest economic package falls short of the reforms needed for sustained growth.
Fazelminallah Qazizai, Newlines
Newlines Magazine interviews the engineers-turned-assassins working the drone unit that enabled the Taliban to win the war in Afghanistan.
Bill Wirtz, The American Conservative
Germany is getting ready for its federal elections on September 26, known as the easy-to-pronounce Bundestagswahl. This year marks the end of the reign of Angela Merkel, who's been serving as chancellor since 2005. Her party, the Christian Democratic Union, might wish for her to stay on for another four years, not least because it is competing against the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party in the polls, all hovering slightly above the 20 percent mark. Читать дальше...
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Despite his past support for attacking Hamas, the meeting between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid's plan to rehabilitate Gaza signal a very different policy.
Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
After Merkel, the incoming coalition will have to prove that democracy can meet Europe's great challenges
Daniel Drezner, Foreign Affairs
In theory, superpowers should possess a range of foreign policy tools: military might, cultural cachet, diplomatic persuasion, technological prowess, economic aid, and so on. But to anyone paying attention to U.S. foreign policy for the past decade, it has become obvious that the United States relies on one tool above all: economic sanctions.
Michael Rubin, National Interest
The possibility that a future American administration may try a "Kuwait" solution with Balochistan is growing.
Edward Alden, Foreign Policy
A thoughtless, unscientific policy of closed borders—even to vaccinated travelers—does a little more damage every day.
Daniel Runde & Ryan Berg, CSIS
In a region that often makes headlines for lackluster governance and rampant corruption, Ecuador stands out as a notable example of a country where democratic norms appear to be not only on the mend but consolidating. President Guillermo Lasso recently finished his first 100 days in office, charting a delicate path through Ecuador's complex regional and domestic constituencies. Rather than clashing with a National Assembly where his own center-right Creating... Читать дальше...
