Luis Fernando Mejía, Am. Quarterly
Decades of bipartisan support from the U.S. have resulted in billions of dollars invested through many programs including Plan Colombia, as well as more recent initiatives that have supported the implementation of the peace accord with the FARC and have helped cope with the nearly 1.8 million Venezuelan migrants currently living in Colombia. The U.S. is also Colombia's main trading and investment partner, leveraged by preferential access through the U.S.-Colombia... Читать дальше...
Frank Herfort, New York Times
It was a cold day in December 2014, and I was waiting for the train at Shchukinskaya, a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.
Katy Balls, Spectator
As the COP26 summit gets underway, a diplomatic Brexit row is escalating on the sidelines of the conference over fish. After France threatened to block British boats from its ports and increase checks on vessels over a disagreement on fishing licences, the UK warned it could retaliate if France goes through with it. Suggestions from the French over the weekend that a solution in the form of 'practical operational measures' had been found were quickly shot down by the UK side. Читать дальше...
John Rentoul, Independent
At a time when global cooperation is needed more than ever, the war of words over something so trivial seems like poor judgement
Ido Vock, New Statesman
Were relations between France and the UK not already so frosty, an ambiguously worded sentence would not have sparked such a row.
Daria Impiombato, Foreign Policy
Militarization is being scaled down as internal surveillance and propaganda increase.
Oliver Stuenkel, Foreign Affairs
Ever since Jair Bolsonaro came to power in Brazil, observers have warned that the former army captain posed a serious risk to the world's fifth-largest democracy. Those fears have proved well founded. Since taking office, the president has joined demonstrators calling for military intervention in Brazil's politics and the closure of Congress and the Supreme Court, promoted the large-scale militarization of his government, and systematically undermined public trust in the country's voting system. Читать дальше...
Robert Service, FS Journal
Paraguay has a long history of authoritarian rule and little experience with democracy. In 1989 democratic elements deposed Alfredo Stroessner after 34 years of dictatorship. They elected, first, another general to replace him and then, in 1993, a civilian, Juan Carlos Wasmosy.
Peter Hartcher, SMH
Within two days, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the US President, Joe Biden, separately said or implied that Morrison had misled or deceived them. And they said so publicly.
Barnett Rubin, War on the Rocks
"Everyone is failing us." These were the first words that Ashraf Ghani uttered — not as he fled the advancing Taliban on Aug. 15, 2021, but in March 2002 as we sat down to dinner on a chilly and wet night on my first post-9/11 visit to Kabul. I had known him since 1984, first as an academic colleague and then as a World Bank official. We had collaborated as informal advisors to U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi during his first assignment from 1997 to 1999, and then as part of the United Nations team in 2001... Читать дальше...
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
The problem is not fish, or Northern Ireland — it's Brexit. And it's time for the US to stage an intervention
Anna Akage, Worldcrunch
Last week Vladimir Putin complained that even without accepting Kyiv into its ranks, NATO could place missiles in Ukraine near Russia's borders. Russian media was quick to help prove Putin's point, writing about Washington's current military aid to Kyiv, Ukraine's talks with London on obtaining Brit
Benjamin Cohen, Project Syndicate
Two recent books by renowned economists have set the stage for today's great debate over the future of money in a digital age. In particular, public and private moneys are entering into a sustained rivalry, with far-reaching implications for markets and politics.
Tony Connelly, RTE
The sudden escalation in tensions between the UK and France over fisheries is part of a worrying pattern linked to Brexit and wider geopolitical concerns.
Cameron Hudson, Atlantic Council
US diplomats had barely cleared Sudanese airspace when the country's military began deploying across the capital, Khartoum, in the early hours of Monday and rounding up the civilian leaders it believed betrayed the democratic revolution that toppled long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
To succeed as a Western leader today, it's enough to not look like a whack job.
Economist
Kishida Fumio may now show what his "new model" of capitalism means.
Rainer Zitelmann, TNI
Advocates of a strong state in Europe and the United States want the public to believe China's economic success confirms that economic growth is inextricably linked with a strong state. Weiying Zhang's analysis proves that the opposite is true
Jonathan Miller, Spectator
Once upon a time, the insolence demonstrated by Emmanuel Macron in his fish war with the United Kingdom would have been met with a firmer response than inviting the French ambassador to the Foreign Office for a chat.
Michael Rubin, 1945
In his first major foreign policy address as president, Joe Biden declared, "America is back, diplomacy is back." It was welcome rhetoric, but two episodes of diplomatic negligence may adversely affect Europe's security for decades to come. The first decision was high profile. As Biden moved to reverse the policies of his predecessor, he lifted […]
Bob Feferman, Times of Israel
From the blog of Bob Feferman at The Times of Israel
A. Michta, 1945
Hard security concerns are again front and center in Europe as Vladimir Putin pushes to revise the post-Cold War settlement, regather the Russian imperial dominion, and compete for influence on the Continent. Two decades of Russian military modernization, combined with the disarmament of a majority of European NATO members, has tilted the military equation along NATO's periphery against the alliance....
H.R. McMaster, National Review
he warrior ethos that emerged in the modern Western world has its origins in the warrior myth as embodied by Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War in the Iliad. In America, the warrior ethos evolved into a covenant that binds warriors to one another and to the citizens in whose name they fight and serve. It is grounded in values such as courage, honor, and self-sacrifice. The ethos reminds warriors of what society expects of them and what they expect of themselves.
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Luka Ivan Jukić, Newlines
Barely known in the West, Lev Gumilyov's theories electrified 1990s Russia and made him an intellectual celebrity — and led to nothing less than a new national story for the post-Soviet world.
James Palmer, Foreign Policy
Fear of coronavirus outbreaks and recent manufacturing struggles are causing disruptions with global ripple effects.
