Новости за 16.11.2016

Jackie Friedman, The Week
One of the world's oldest ecosystems is under siege by a tiny, deadly force.

Gerry Adams, Irish Times
Brexit need not mean Brexit for the North's citizens, who have a right to EU citizenship.

Mikheil Saakashvili, New York Times
Few politicians in the world have had to undergo the same experience twice in their career and in different countries. Yet this is exactly what happened to me in Ukraine and Georgia.

Marwan Muasher, Project Synd.
If Middle Eastern countries do not start making real progress on fundamental political and economic reforms, further regional turmoil is inevitable. With the region's decades-old rentier systems now at a breaking point, policymakers must begin the difficult, but not impossible, process of establishing new social contracts.

Maxim Suchkov, Al-Monitor
Russian officials do not expect President-elect Donald Trump to roll over for President Vladimir Putin and are pondering a wide range of options the new US leader will present on the Middle East.

Owen Matthews, Newsweek
Trump will likely face a binary choice: continue to engage in that intensifying shadow war, as his predecessor chose to do, or end sanctions against Russia -- essentially allowing Putin to expand his influence in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Christian Whiton, Fox News
In just over a week as president-elect, Donald Trump has done more for peace and economic security than eight years of Barack Obama.

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Clinton gave cooperation a shot. So did Bush. Obama, too. Hmm, there's a pattern.

Denis MacShane, The Independent
When Prime Minister Theresa May repeats her favourite incantation -- "Brexit Means Brexit" -- what does she actually mean?

J. Lester Feder, BuzzFeed
Well before victories for Brexit and Trump seemed possible, Bannon declared there was a “global tea party movement” and praised European far-right parties like Great Britain's UKIP and France's National Front. Bannon also suggested that a racist element in far-right parties “all gets kind of washed out,” that the West was facing a “crisis of capitalism” after losing its “Judeo-Christian foundation,” and he blasted “crony capitalists”... Читать дальше...

Sudha Ramachandran, The Diplomat
The 2003 agreement is falling apart amid a sharp decline in India-Pakistan relations.

Thomas Piketty, Guardian
Rising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option

Shadi Hamid, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump has restored American politics to its default setting — a fight over identity, morality, and religion.

Beppe Severgnini, NYTimes
Americans still want to give their leader the benefit of the doubt. Italians now know better.

Andreas Umland, Atlantic Council
Making Western assistance to Kyiv more effective is crucial to Ukraine's future. Yet the West's current approach is plagued by a strategic defect. When Western aid and Kyiv's reforms reach a tipping point, they will trigger increasingly aggressive...

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View
Poor execution has dented the government's reputation for efficiency.

Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books
I never thought I would see this opera again. ‘Rule Britannia!' peals, the curtain parts, and there is a mad queen poling her island raft away into the Atlantic. Her shrieks grow slowly fainter, as the mainland falls behind. The first performance was in the 1980s. Who could forget . . .

Mike Giglio, BuzzFeed
“We are going into the unknown.”

Economist
Both countries are continuing a long-standing game of playing Russia and the West against each other

Nick Turse, TomDispatch
Under an inky sky ablaze with stars, the type of night you see only in the rural world, I looked toward the man who asked the question and half-shrugged. Everyone including me, I said, thought Donald Trump was going to flame out long ago. And he hadn't. So what did I know?Â

Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
For years, Putin has played his intelligence and military cronies off against the so-called liberal elites he nurtured as well. Now their fight is out in the open.