Новости за 30.06.2016

Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph
The classicist in Boris will reach for many an ancient allusion of betrayal – Caesar in the forum, “et tu Gover?” – but while he is still relatively young at 52, the political historian in him will know that his moment has gone. There will be no Churchillian crescendo, no “my whole life has been a preparation for this moment”, no “glad confident morning again”. The lost leader.

Michael Dougherty, Week
It's time to talk about how absurdly dishonest both parties are being about American foreign policy.

Justin Fox, Bloomberg View
This rapid rise in the number of Chinese students crossing the Pacific is the product partly of rising affluence in China and frustration with the relative inflexibility of the Chinese higher-education system. But it's also been driven by U.S. colleges and universities looking to counter a decline in the number of college-age kids in the U.S. and, in the case of state universities, big cutbacks in government aid, especially since the financial crisis of 2008.

Michael Bliss, Globe and Mail
Marxist theories of class and class struggle are as useful as any others for trying to explain what is happening to us.

Jonathan Marcus, BBC News
Rapidly changing diplomatic ties in the Middle East do not disguise the continued chaos in the region, says Jonathan Marcus.

Andrew Grice, The Independent
What a difference a day makes. As Boris Johnson prepared on Wednesday to launch his campaign to become Conservative leader, his team was confident that he would defeat Theresa May in the run-off among the party's 125,000 members after Tory MPs chose a shortlist of two. Johnson acolytes were totally convinced that he had made the right call by heading the campaign for a Brexit vote. “It was a win/win,” they said.

Iain Martin, Reaction
Even those of us who write about how ruthless the Tory party is are standing, staring, open-mouthed at what has just happened. At 9am this morning, Boris Johnson was pretty sure that he was going to become Prime Minister, or at least make the final two in the leadership contest and be in with a 50-50 chance. Then, at 9.02am an email landed that signalled he was done for, ruined. Johnson and his team had no warning – no call, no text – from Michael Gove that he was... Читать дальше...

Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy
Britain's departure meant the end of an era. France's departure would mean the end of the EU.

Daniel Davis, National Interest
The United States is not a magician. It can't grant democracy wishes.

Maxim Trudolyubov, Wilson Center
The single most important consequence of the vote, from Russia's perspective, is the effective ban on any future expansion of the European Union. It would be politically impossible for the EU to expand further East when it is crumbling in the West.

James Tozer, 1843
Buying property can be a lottery. You might covet a second home below the Eiffel Tower or the Swiss Alps. But data from Knight Frank show that prime properties in Paris and Geneva – the top end of the market – have lost more than 5% of their value in nominal terms since 2013. It could be worse: prime prices in Singapore dropped by 18%.

Tom Ridge, Washington Times
About two days after an Orlando gunman carried out the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, the Iranian foreign ministry issued a statement purporting to decry the incident. Speaking via the state-run IRNA, a spokesperson said the Iranian regime “condemns” the attack “based on its principled policy of condemning terrorism and its strong will to seriously confront this evil phenomenon.”

Borzou Daragahi & Mitch Prothero, BuzzFeed
The attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport shows how the country has gone from a destination for international commerce and tourism to becoming a magnet for terrorist violence.

Mustafa Akyol, New York Times
ISTANBUL — ON Tuesday night, just as millions of Muslims here were breaking their Ramadan fasts, three terrorists attacked the city's busy airport. They fired randomly at passengers with automatic weapons before blowing themselves up. They killed 41 innocent people, most of them Muslims, supposedly in the name of Islam.

Patrick Cockburn, TomDispatch
All of these have a number of things in common: they are endless and seem never to produce definitive winners or losers. (Afghanistan has effectively been at war since 1979, Somalia since 1991.) They involve the destruction or dismemberment of unified nations, their de facto partition amid mass population movements and upheavals -- well publicized in the case of Syria and Iraq, less so in places like South Sudan where more than 2.4 million people have been displaced in recent years.

Jennifer Lynn McCoy, The Conversation
Venezuela sits at the edge of a humanitarian calamity. A GSU international mediation expert explains how outsiders can play a critical role in resolving the cause – a deeply rooted political battle.

Clemens Wergin, Die Welt
BERLIN — The outcome of the Brexit referendum is a shock for Germany too.

Jonathan Powell, Guardian
If the Tories are to be led by an anti-European, then someone must speak for the 48% who want to remain in the EU

Allister Heath, Telegraph
No, my dear Remainer friends, I don't have buyer's remorse.

Karen Donfried, German Marshall Fund
WASHINGTON—The implications of the Brexit vote are stark, not only for the United Kingdom and for the European Union, but also for the United States. Since the end of World War II, successive U.S. administrations have strongly supported the project of European economic and political integration – initially, to ensure peace among the continent's great powers; more recently, to enlarge the area of democratic stability and economic prosperity across... Читать дальше...

Andrew Michta, Carnegie Europe
The last NATO summit, in Wales in 2014, was defined by the recognition that with Russia having just seized Crimea and expanded war into Ukraine, the post–Cold War security regime in Europe was effectively being dismantled. Moscow was redrawing borders in Eastern Europe while accelerating its military modernization and pushing for a sphere of privileged interest along its periphery. Since then, the Baltic states, Poland, and Romania have called for NATO to... Читать дальше...