France's Right Turn
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week
After Brexit and Trump, could Marine Le Pen be next?
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, The Week
After Brexit and Trump, could Marine Le Pen be next?
Max Fisher, NYT
Behind much of the Middle East's chaos -- the wars in Syria and Yemen, the political upheaval in Iraq and Lebanon and Bahrain -- there is another conflict.
Jacqueline Charles, MH
Haiti's long-awaited presidential rerun and legislative elections finally arrived Sunday, with a few committed voters in line ahead of 6 a.m. opening time.
Knights & Schweitzer, Foreign Policy
Pro-Iran militias are looking to settle an old grudge in one of the Islamic State's strongholds in northern Iraq.
Anna Nemstova, The Daily Beast
The war profiteers' answer to critics who say they're fueling carnage in the world's newest country? Somebody's gonna do it.
H.A. Hellyer, Al-Monitor
While President-elect Donald Trump took a strong stance against Islamists during his campaign, his openness to Turkey's Justice and Development Party-led government shows that the coming administration's approach to Islamists is still unknown.
Jinghan Zeng, Diplomat
The world is counting on China to lead on climate change. Our future is in the hands of Beijing.
Nicholas Farrell, The Spectator
PM Matteo Renzi is on course to lose a referendum -- plunging the country into even more chaos than normal.
Harry Kazianis, RealClearWorld
Donald Trump and Mitt Romney: political allies? Now there is an idea I never thought I would put to paper or pixel. And yet, there it is.Ã
Zeeshan Aleem, Vox
Iran has already gotten what it wants, but the U.S. hasn't.
Suzanne Maloney, BI
The uncertainty around the future of the Iran nuclear deal under a Trump presidency is just one aspect of the recalibration of America's approach to the world. But it also underscores the agreement's implicit vulnerabilities.
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
New models might better predict the outcomes, but expect some surprises, too.
Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
We're about to enter a period where a lot of the world's mightiest countries are not going to be at the table.
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Obama's advice to Europe rings hollow in the face of his myriad foreign policy failures.
Natalie Nougayrede, The Guardian
Mr President, we bid farewell to you with mixed feelings: your lack of interest in our continent has cost us dear.