Bilal Saab, Foreign Policy
Supporting anti-Taliban fighters will spark a return to civil war, antagonize Pakistan, and draw the United States back into a conflict it sought to put…
C. Raja Mohan, Indian Express
Delhi should take a hard look at the emerging challenges to the current space order and its interests on the moon, and develop strategies to pursue them through a national lunar mission.
Iryna Lysohor, Worldcrunch
KIEV — Nowhere could the the revelations from the Pandora Papers investigation hit harder than in Ukraine. The discovery of offshore accounts strike at the heart of the current government and power structure of a ruling class that rose to power on the promise of fighting corruption, including the television-star-turned-President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Davide Angelucci et al, LSE
What policy issues determined support for parties during the 2021 German federal election? Davide Angelucci, Lorenzo De Sio, Heiko Giebler and Werner Krause present conclusions from an analysis of …
Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor
Jordan's King Abdullah II, who backed regime change in Syria and allowed weapons to be funneled through his kingdom to opposition rebels, spoke to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. It was the first time the pair have communicated since the start of Syria's devastating civil conflict a decade ago. The thaw, which also saw Jordan reopen its sealed borders with its impoverished...
Tsai Ing-wen, Foreign Affairs
A Force for Good in the Changing International Order
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Can the West's newfangled development programs compete with China's?
Paul Wilson, The Scotsman
Boris Johnson gave perhaps as clear a signal as could be expected from him at the start of a Conservative Party Conference that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil more tax rises in his Budget later this month.
Eva Seiwert, FPRI
In recent weeks, observers worldwide have debated whether or not China will fill the multiple 'vacuums' that the withdrawal of U.S. troops has left in Afghanistan. Some expect Beijing to fill a "financial vacuum" by investing heavily in the country. Others focus on its role in filling the "political vacuum" by helping to legitimize the Taliban government on the international stage. And others debate whether or not China will step in to fill the "military vacuum" left by the NATO withdrawal... Читать дальше...
Christopher Caldwell, New York Times
The Christian Democratic Union was Germany's great, stabilizing bourgeois party.
Olaf Scholz with Der Spiegel
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats, the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, discusses his plan to create a stable government and reveals what he has in common with Angela Merkel.
Pepijn Bergsen, Internationale Politik Quarterly
The European Union has been very active in recent years in its engagement with Asia and the Indo-Pacific region. In line with where the bloc's competencies lie, the form this engagement takes is mostly that of building or extending economic relations. Over the past decade the EU has concluded bilateral trade agreements with several countries, including Japan and Vietnam, and it is currently negotiating further ones with, among others, Indonesia and Australia. Читать дальше...
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Lessons learnt from its 20th century history have helped it to avoid the perils of populism.
Daniel Davis, 1945
Between Friday and Monday, China launched an unprecedented 155 warplanes into the skies near the Taiwanese coast. "Time to warn Taiwan" that the threat of war "is real," blasted the headline on Monday from the Chinese Global Times.
David Starkey, The Critic
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back."
Matthew Mai, RealClearWorld
U.S. President Joe Biden was reportedly rebuffed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September when Biden offered to hold a summit meeting with the Chinese leader. While the administration has been relatively successful at engaging regional allies and partners—the landmark deal to equip treaty ally Australia with nuclear-powered submarines...
James Durso, The Hill
In the wake of Meng Wanzhou's departure, after almost three years in detention, Canadians are probably asking "Was it worth it?"
