Новости за 17.10.2016

Will McCants, Jihadica
When the Turkish-held noose tightened around Dabiq over the past few weeks, ISIS' followers began to frantically explain why the approaching showdown in Dabiq would not be THE showdown.

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
The shrinking of Greenland's ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis. The floodgates may already be open.

Mohammed Hanif, NYT

Most reports on Indo-Pak tensions remind us that the two countries have gone to war over Kashmir three times. What they fail to mention is that all these wars achieved was to obliterate the aspirations of Kashmiri people. In the din of conflict, the first voice to be silenced is theirs. In the current noise hardly any one notices that since July some 1,000 Kashmiris have sustained eye injuries because Indian forces are firing at them with pellet guns.

Joshua Kurlantzick, Project Syndicate
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's death, though long anticipated, still came as a profound shock to the country. Following the death of a unifying – if not always pro-democratic – political leader who reigned for 70 years, what comes next for Thailand and its military junta is unclear.

Beverley Milton-Edwards, AJE

While appearing attractive in the abstract, partition could make matters worse, not better, in fragile states.

Nick Danforth, Wash Post
Why Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya are in so much turmoil.

Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
The Obama administration is sending a very strong message to Russia through Biden that it is going to be sending a very strong message. Putin is sitting back and watching the show, chiding the U.S. for its “hysteria.” It makes you wonder who is sending what message to whom.

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prosp.
Jill Stein and Jeremy Corbyn have been among the apologists for Russia's crimes in Syria -- alongside Donald Trump.

Dan De Luce & Reid Standish, Foreign Policy
Washington and Moscow used to keep arms control separate from other crises around the world. But that era is over and the next president will have to decide how to deal with it.

Jason Pack, Al-Monitor
The expected liberation of Sirte in the near future is overshadowed by Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the Libyan National Army, steadily gaining power and territory through the militarization of the governance of much of eastern Libya.

Ben Dooley, AFP
Even as U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump aggressively condemned Beijing, his hotel firm pursued a lucrative business deal with a giant state-owned Chinese firm headed by a top Communist official, sources say.

Danica Kirka, AP

Descendants of those who fled Hitler rethinking long-held beliefs about a country that once sought to destroy their families.

J.E. Lendon, Weekly Standard
Having blessed Carthage as diverse and multicultural, Hannibal's author unconsciously imagines Carthage's great opponent to be as monolithic in race, creed, and outlook as a white-shoe law firm in 1950s New York—and therefore (by an inevitable implicit logic) greedy, perfidious, and belligerent. But the real Romans imagined that their city had been founded from a flotsam of the accursed, exiles, and broken men. And loyal to those origins, Rome energetically split her citizenship into rights and ranks... Читать дальше...

Mohamed Asim, Independent
As an association born in the twilight of the empire, the Commonwealth has shown surprisingly little empathy towards the struggles of post-colonial states such as the Maldives.

Brian Monteith, The Scotsman
Scottish exports to the British single market are more than four times as important as the EU.

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
There's are reasons Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aren't talking about U.S. failures in Afghanistan. They're just not good reasons.

Ted Galen Carpenter, The National Interest
A wise realist foreign policy has a strong moral component.

Shawn Snow, The Diplomat
As Afghanistan limps on from one its bloodiest fighting seasons that has witnessed almost 4,500 casualties from March to August, many fingers have pointed at Pakistan's support of Taliban militants for much of the instability and discord ravaging the countryside.

Phillips & Holmes, Guardian
The Philippines president is visiting China but whether his focus is on building relations or his country's infrastructure remains to be seen.

Lily Kuo, Quartz
A state of emergency declared in Ethiopia grows more draconian by the day.

Lucas Destrijker, Politico EU
From the city in central Niger, hundreds of thousands attempt to cross the Sahara and reach Europe. But more die in the desert crossing than do in the Mediterranean.