Peter Scaturro, FP Blogs
As the United States matures as a global power, how should America assert itself in the world?
Henry Foy & Max Seddon, Financial Times
The police's violent response to protesters' demands in Moscow has intensified anger over a flatlining economy.
Shamard Charles, NBC
Informants have penetrated inaccessible areas occupied by the ISIS-linked sect, vaccinating many of the 66,000 children in the northern state of Borno.
Lauren Risi, Wilson Quarterly
Dire predictions of nations battling over water have not come true. The bitterest conflicts over water are closer to home.
Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
Before being elected president, Donald Trump had already disparaged many American allies during the 2016 campaign, questioning the point of NATO and suggesting he might abandon defense treaties with countries like Japan and South Korea, among other criticisms of longstanding U.S. foreign policy. So there were immediate questions, and lots of angst, about what effect his presidency would have on U.S. relations around the world.
Ernest Moniz & Sam Nunn, Foreign Affairs
Unless Russia and the United States resume some form of regular diplomacy and dialogue, any sudden crisis might escalate into nuclear war.
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
In 2017, Labour gained just 9,860 votes in Scotland just 700 more votes than it gained in Wes Streeting's Ilford North constituency but picked up six extra seats. Why? There were two factors at work: the first was that almost half a million people who voted for the SNP in 2015 did not vote in 2017. Politicians in the SNP, Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Labour and Scottish Liberal Democrats all suggest the same set of factors, albeit in very different orders. They are... Читать дальше...
EurasiaNet
After a night of unrest in Kyrgyzstan, neither side in the standoff between the government and the disaffected former president appears prepared to stand down and defuse tensions
Anton Shekhovtsov, Riddle
Anton Shekhovtsov on why Russia needs Europe, and Europe needs Russia
Richard Preston, New Yorker
This July, the World Health Organization declared that an outbreak of Ebola in the provinces of Ituri and North-Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a public health emergency of international concern. This particular strain of the virus, which first appeared in the region in 2018 and hasn't been given a formal nameI'll call it Kivu Ebolais a variant of a species known as the Zaire Ebola virus. As of last Saturday, 2,753 cases of Kivu Ebola have been reported, with 1,843 deaths. Читать дальше...
Stephen Glover, Daily Mail
STEPHEN GLOVER: Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told an audience in Edinburgh on Tuesday that a Corbyn government 'would not block' a second Scottish independence referendum.
Tom Peck, Independent
What is the Conservative Party for, after all, what is Conservatism, if it's not to smash everything to bits and rebuild it in accordance with the blog posts of some wide-eyed zealot?
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
To deal with Iran and the Middle East, Britain needs EU support as much as the EU needs a serious defense and security policy. Neither will materialize when the summer pause ends.
Metin Gurcan, Al Monitor
Targeted killings of PKK Central Committee member Diyar Gharib Muhammed in Qandil on June 27 and Turkish intelligence agency-affiliated Turkish diplomat Osman Kose in Erbil on July 17 mark a major shift in the characteristics of the armed conflict between Turkey and the outlawed Kurdish militant group.
Nick Witney, ECFR
Europeans have responded to the death of the INF treaty with seeming indifference - and are expressing their reluctance to accept that nuclear issues are back on the agenda
Haseeb Drabu, New York Times
For India??s new rulers, Muslim-majority Kashmir was the perfect place to announce the rise of India??s new muscular nationalism and unabashed majoritarianism.
Niall Ferguson, Boston Globe
The president has turned the tables on once-mighty central bankers.
Seth Cropsey, The Hill
Continued harassment of international shipping presents the U.S. with a difficult challenge.