Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
In politics, we are often asked to believe in unicorns, mermaids, or goblins and to vote for politicians who say they are either going to produce one (if it's something we want) or eradicate them (if we think they're dangerous). In other words, we're being asked to believe in things that don't exist and then being promised that our future leaders will make policy as if they were real.
L. Todd Wood, Washington Times
As a former military officer, I learned decades ago that when taking command of new unit, an officer has to be a strict disciplinarian. Rules have to be enforced and your subordinates need to respect and understand you are a determined person who takes your oath of office seriously. In reality, these first few months are a negotiation with your troops. First impressions count, they set the stage for your entire command.
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
The NSA whistle-blower is speaking up about the repressive drift of the country that granted him asylum.
Anna Fifield, Wash. Post
Advances could enable North Korea to outsmart missile defense systems.
Phil Torres, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
An existential risk refers to any future event that would either trip our species into the eternal grave of extinction or irreversibly catapult us back into the Stone Age. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom formalized this concept in 2002, and it has since become a topic of growing interest among both academics and the public.
Economist
Theresa May's ministers are carefully avoiding specific answers. But she is systematically disowning many of the Brexiteers' promises
Nigel Farage, Irish Times
The European Commission's attack on Irish tax sovereignty using the weapon and subterfuge of state aid rules is deeply harmful toà Irelandand a foretaste of more damaging trouble ahead.Ã
Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative
Washington must accept that the Turkish leader is only loyal to his domestic supporters.
J.L. Castro, RCHealth
The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, opening next week, promises to be among the most difficult in recent memory. As the world faces rising challenges and an increasingly...
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Only after the Second World War, and the role played by women in the French Resistance, did the political status of women begin to change. With the enfranchisement of women in 1945 -- signed by the deeply conservative and Catholic Charles de Gaulle -- the iconography of Marianne was also liberated. Over time, public figures ranging from Brigitte Bardot to Catherine Deneuve have served as the official models. The resistance that the few efforts to introduce a black... Читать дальше...
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
The Visegrád countries believe it's time for theà European Union to have its own army. The Visegrád Four, which consist of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, had already been toying for some time with the idea of having their ownà battle group. These battle groups, first conceived in 2003 by Britain and France to provide the EU with flexible forces that could deploy rapidly, do little else except train.
Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
National-security experts should be delighted that there is any debate at all.
Economist
China still struggles to stuff the Great Helmsman underground
Sergey Radchenko, For. Policy
Communist China's founding father died forty years ago. His country still struggles with his legacy.
Arthur Beesley, Financial Times
Brussels is advancing an ambitious plan to bolster EU military co-ordination as European leaders seek to rally the bloc after Britain's vote to leave.
Afshon Ostovar, For. Affairs
The IRGC is at once both a champion of Iran's revolutionary ethos and a pragmatic organization, with an approach to strategic affairs that comes closer to realpolitik than Islamism.
Casey Michel, Intersection Project
The American far-left and hard-right, supported by Moscow's media, have coalesced on a Kremlin-friendly platform
Bulent Aliriza, CSIS
The meeting between President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 4 at the G20 provided the two leaders with their first face-to-face opportunity to discuss the aggravated tensions in the U.S.-Turkish relationship since the July 15 coup attempt.
Peter Robert Woodward, The Conversation
Since 1991, and the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia, the region has declared itself independent. But should it? The examples of the secession of South Sudan and Eritrea raise serious questions and doubts about the outcomes of breakaway states.
Lawrence Korb, The American Prospect
Our core national-security interests and the limits of military force.
A. Lucas, El Pais
Deep below the city is a history lesson dating back more than five millenia, complete with Roman waterways, tombs and labyrinths