Новости за 12.07.2016

Ben Judah, New York Times
The dreamers, unwitting, sickened with nostalgia, have torn down that last, threadbare vestige of Great Britain. This is the queen of England's England no more.

William Booth & Ruth Eglash, WP
Are the Israelis and Palestinians getting ready to return to peace talks? Take a very deep breath and hold it.The decades-long stalemate is being nudged forward.The latest player is Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who sent his foreign minister to Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon.

Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
With the government of Justin Trudeau, we have finally given the boot to the generation that has dominated Canadian life for four decades.

Mary Dejevsky, The Independent
Theresa May has two reasons to thank Margaret Thatcher. The first is that there is far less hullaballoo surrounding the arrival of a female prime minister. The second is that a host of preconceptions about how a woman might change foreign policy – kinder, gentler, less upfront, more devious, and averse to armed conflict – have been thoroughly dispelled.

Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Conspiracy theories keep Turkey's new ruling class in a bubble of self-delusion, blinding them to the bitter and complex realities that Turkey faces.

Nicholas Vinocur, Politico EU
Newly revealed testimony from security chief focuses on ISIL's changing tactics.

Masha Gessen, Vanity Fair
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and then its most famous political prisoner, now has his eye on the future—his country's. Can he invent a new Russia from exile?

Joyce Karam, Al Arabiya
Whether it's Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the next U.S. President will be faced with new realities on the ground in Syria, in Iraq and in Yemen, that make any settlement proposals and promises on the campaign trail sound too ambitious.

Ben Judah, New York Times
The dreamers, unwitting, sickened with nostalgia, have torn down that last, threadbare vestige of Great Britain. This is the queen of England's England no more.

Zahra Alipour, Al-Monitor
A controversial bill on eligibility for appointment to “sensitive" positions would give the IRGC's Intelligence Organization vetting authority parallel with that of Iran's Intelligence Ministry.

James Goldgeier, War on the Rocks
Surely the Kremlin watched with no small amount of bitterness last Friday as NATO's heads of state and government gathered for dinner at Warsaw's president

Zahra Alipour, Al-Monitor
A controversial bill on eligibility for appointment to “sensitive" positions would give the IRGC's Intelligence Organization vetting authority parallel with that of Iran's Intelligence Ministry.

Richard Eichenberg, The Conversation
The NATO summit in Warsaw that wrapped up on July 9 demonstrated once again that the defense spending effort of European allies remains a contentious issue in the alliance.

Michael Hayden & James Stavridis, Miami Herald
Leadership on the refugee crisis would both reflect American ideals and serve U.S. national security, but the United States has taken in only a few thousand Syrian refugees, a miniscule fraction of those who need protection.

Michael Bratton & Eldred Masunungure, Foreign Affairs
Zimbabwe faces an uncertain future as President Robert Mugabe approaches the end of his life.

Steve Mollman, Quartz
Demonstrators in the Philippines want China out.

Ben Norton, Salon
Amnesty International report: Syrian rebel groups "committed serious violations of international humanitarian law"

Robert Kelly, Lowy Interpreter
The US Republican Party will gather from July 18–21 to formally nominate Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. This may be contested — the ‘Never Trump' movement is searching for a way to open the convention — but regardless, Trump has already altered the Grand Old Party (GOP) dramatically. He will likely lose in November. But ‘Trumpism' — white nationalism, America First, overt hostility to Islam and the growing diversity of the United States... Читать дальше...

Ian Birrell, Guardian
As the new prime minister, Theresa May's challenge will be to avoid the ‘death by Europe' of her three Tory predecessors

Rachel Cunliffe, CapX
Andrea Leadsom was out of her depth. A resourceful woman with a successful (but, as the country discovered, not outstanding) career in the City and six years' experience as an MP, she was virtually unheard of even in political circles until a month ago.Â

Kelly McParland, National Post
Should Hillary Clinton win November's U.S. election, the leaders of the western world's three biggest powers — the U.S., Britain and Germany — would all be women.