Life After Fidel at Miami's Most Famous Cuban Restaurant
Gabe Ulla, New Yorker
Versailles, a de-facto town square for generations of Cuban exiles, confronts what Fidel's death, and Trump's rise, will mean for Cuban-American relations.
Gabe Ulla, New Yorker
Versailles, a de-facto town square for generations of Cuban exiles, confronts what Fidel's death, and Trump's rise, will mean for Cuban-American relations.
Francisco de Borja Lasheras, ECFR
This weekend's parliamentary elections in Macedonia are, ironically, an exercise in strengthening anti-democratic forces.
Economist
The West African country's democracy is far from perfect, but it is still an example for the continent
Michael Stothard, Financial Times
Europe is prepared to fight back against economic protectionism by theà Donald Trumpà administration with policies akin to those used to combat Chinese anti-competitive practices, according to France's industry minister.Ã
Kamran Bokhari, Geopolitical Futures
Jihadist attacks on minority religious and ethnic groups are part of a deeper strategy to destabilize regimes.
Norman Bailey, Asia Times
With the disastrous foreign and defense policies followed by the last two administrations in Washington, power vacuums have emerged throughout the world, and as we all know, nature (and politics) abhors a vacuum. Europe can no longer even be considered a significant player in the global geopolitical context.
Scott Cendrowski, Fortune
âÂÂOne Belt, One Road,â China's $3 trillion infrastructure-building campaign, could be a windfall for some Western companies and investors.Ã
Liz Peek, Fox News
President Obama has searched high and, increasingly, low, for the reasons he and Hillary Clinton lost the election.
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
Ideological and civilizational conservatives united in opposition to the Soviet Union, but divide on whether Putin's Russia is a totalitarian enemy, or a defender of the Christian west. Ã
Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
A new report highlights the complexity of the challenge.
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg View
The countryâ??s ouster from a regional trade bloc reveals Latin Americaâ??s shifting balance of power.
Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
Time is running out for Isil.
N. Cheeseman, G. Lynch & J. Willis, Newsweek
Polling day passed off almost entirely peacefully in the west African country.
Ashton Carter, Nat'l Interest
"The U.S. military's excellence is not a birthright. It must be earned again and again in this changing and fiercely competitive world."
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Weekly Standard
What we don't know can hurt us.
Paul Gregory, Forbes
As Putin followed the drip-drip of disclosures, he would have concluded that Hillary Clinton would enter office as a severely wounded US President. He may have begun to relish the prospect of Hillary sitting opposite him at the negotiating table.
Michael Hayden, The Cipher Brief
As the United States and the international community absorbed the news that the CIA believed Russia had interfered in the recent Presidential election to help Donald Trump's candidacy, President-elect Trump dismissed the assessment out of hand, describing it as a result of partisan politics. As part of The Cipher Brief's special coverage of these developments, Executive Editor Fionnuala Sweeney spoke to former CIA and NSA Director General Michael Hayden about the implications for the agency... Читать дальше...
Patrick Cockburn, Independent
The bombings that killed 38 people and injured 155 after a football match in Istanbul is the latest episode to underline Turkey's violent instability. Government officials blame the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), with which the Turkish state has been fighting a guerrilla war since 1984.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Al Jazeera
As isolationism is sweeping through the West, China is to become the unlikely champion of globalisation.
Der Spiegel
For decades, American nuclear weapons have served as a guarantor of European security. But what happens if Donald Trump casts doubt on that atomic shield? A debate has already opened in Berlin and Brussels over alternatives to the U.S. deterrent. By SPIEGEL Staff
Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, RCWorld
Trump's trade policy may not be as radical in practice as he described it on the stump, and his win is an opportunity to address the shortcomings in the current global trade system.