Mixed Signals on Engagement From North Korea
Robert Carlin, 38 North
Robert Carlin, 38 North
Deborah Mabbett, Political Quarterly
Watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime minister, even if
Matt Welch, Reason
Imagine being a U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of
Benedict Mander, Financial Times
Unable to focus his campaign on his economic achievements, Mr Macri has instead been busily unveiling infrastructure projects around the country, not only highlighting concrete achievements but also contrasting them with the previous administration's less impressive record on that front, just as a trial begins in which Ms Fernndez is accused of corruption in public works projects.
Karina Piser, The Nation
In Denmark, the center left returned to power only by lurching to the right on immigration.
Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman
Updating his 1976 triptych on the Main Currents of Marxism in 2005, the philosopher Leszek Ko?akowski predicted that Marx himself would become more and more what he already is: a chapter from a text book of the history of ideas, a figure that no longer evokes any emotions, simply the author of one of the great books' of the 19th century one of those books that very few bother to read but whose titles are known. That assumption seemed credible then. But one consequence... Читать дальше...
Amy Mackinnon, Foreign Policy
One of Europe's poorest countries plunges into crisis.
Liselotte Odgaard, Korea Times
The 2019 Shangri-La Dialogue was expected to display fireworks between the United States and China. The U.S. announcement of its free and open Indo-Pacific strategy and China's decision to send its defense minister for the first time in eight years set the scene for a wrestling match between the two strategic competitors.
D. Minzarari, Jamestown
Note to readers: Moldova is presently facing perhaps its worst political crisis in almost three decades. As a result of the complex and fast-moving developments surrounding this volatile situation, The Jamestown Foundation is releasing a special, extended-length article in Eurasia Daily Monitor, analyzing the details leading up to the crisis as well as its major implications and potential consequences.
National Review
The deal is welcome, and better than could reasonably have been expected.
T. Rogan, Exam.
President Xi Jinping says that the world should welcome China's rise as the new powerhouse of global economics. China's Belt and Road plan, Xi says, will make everyone more wealthy while respecting the individual freedom of each nation.
Semih Idiz, Al-M
Turkey is seeking to improve relations with the West to stave off further damage to its ailing economy, but wants to do so without appearing to concede any ground or make concessions.
Peter Brookes, Nat'l Int.
It's hard to conceive that the situation in Syria could get any worsebut it might.
Robert Delaney, South China Morning Post
The Chinese state may have turned its back on political liberalisation, but the US, too, has subverted its own proud traditions. The debate on whose culture is superior is one Trump's America can't win.
M. Hussain, The Intercept
Marriageology doesn't make a logician's case for marriage, nor does it articulate the institution's weird, heavy, persevering glamour.
Jonathan Cristol, Arc
The attempt to isolate and undermine the kingdom has backfired on every level
Yi-Zheng Lian, NYT
Judging by the crowds on Sunday, scorn for the government on the mainland has reached new heights.
James Stavridis, Bloomberg View
In the classic 1980s comedy Ghostbusters, the heroes have one serious rule for using their powerful anti-ghost weapons, which emit long beams of specter-killing electrons: Don't cross the streams. As the U.S. and its allies watch the continuing rapprochement between Russia and China, they would do well to heed that advice: each rival is dangerous, but as they converge they become a true global threat.