Oil Seems Remarkably Relaxed as Global Tensions Rise
Liam Denning, Bloom. View
The trade war's threats to demand help offset growing threats to supply.
Liam Denning, Bloom. View
The trade war's threats to demand help offset growing threats to supply.
Stephen Daisley, Spectator
In August 2007, three months after coming to power at Holyrood, the SNP launched its National Conversation on Scotland's constitutional future. We have been talking about little else since. Among the
David O'Byrne, World Politics Review
ISTANBULAfter 17 years in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing Justice and Development Party, the AKP, face perhaps their toughest test yet. Voters in Istanbul will head to the polls again on June 23 to elect a mayor for the second time in three months, after Turkey's Supreme Election Council controversially canceled the results of the March vote, which the opposition narrowly won. The Supreme Election Council cited irregularities... Читать дальше...
Simon Wren-Lewis, New Statesman
Most people think about Brexit as a binary divide. While true in terms of Remaining or Leaving, this framework is misleading when thinking about any Brexit deal. A better model is to think about three different groups. The first comprises Remainers who see no value in compromising over Brexit. The second is made up of people who will be satisfied with nothing less than a complete break, ie no deal. Finally you have a group that includes some Remainers who would... Читать дальше...
Tom McTague, Pol. EU
The party leaders are still talking, in a bid to hold onto a lost political landscape.
A. Papazoglou, NR
Headlines about Nazis could distract from a more pressing issue: current tensions within the EU.
Henri Barkey, Foreign Policy
Erdogan will come to bitterly regret his decision to overturn the Istanbul election, primarily because it demonstrates that he is losing power and is running scared. He is terrified of any potential mobilization of civil society. His paranoia leads him to see plots everywhere and to incessantly purge the bureaucracy, military, and society of real but mostly imaginary enemies.