Joshua Mackenzie-Lawrie, The Commentator
The neo-authoritarian Remain camp is not content to trample on democracy, it is now encroaching on the rule of law itself. The Supreme Court has become a political tool for those opposed to Brexit. This shabby new strategy must not succeed
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Trump has destroyed our reputation for good governance.
Philip Hammond, Times of London
For the first time in 35 years I am not packing my bag to travel to the Tory party conference tomorrow. The party I joined as a student and first campaigned for in the 1979 general election is...
Sarah Chayes, The Atlantic
Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense, but prominent Americans also shouldn't be leveraging their names for payoffs from shady clients abroad.
Daniel Kennelly, The American Interest
Sixty years on, Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz, offers a poignant rebuke to the political extremists of our own time.
Tridivesh Singh Maini, NoL
After the drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities Iran's ties with the rest of the world, especially Washington, have witnessed some interesting developments in recent weeks. While there was a possib
Stephen Nagy, Japan Times
Liberal democratic societies such as Japan should see the Hong Kong protests as the first volley in a protracted cyber struggle that could undermine their open societies.
Sarah Chayes, The Atlantic
Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense, but prominent Americans also shouldn't be leveraging their names for payoffs from shady clients abroad.
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Our two-party system has its flaws, but at least US voters are never held hostage ?? as Israeli voters are ?? by minor parties.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Once firm friends and allies, the two old partners are drifting apart and that's not just down to Trump.
Con Coughlin, The National
The Iranian leader's uncompromising comments make the prospect of curbing the regime's aggression even more remote
Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute
A policy of restraint backed by strength is better than either the passivity advocated by non-interventionists or the Obama administration??s weaker st...
W. Hartung & M. Smithberger, T-Dispatch
For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come.
Sebastien Peyrouse, PONARS Eurasia
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Notwithstanding twenty years of increasingly prominent political, economic and security relations, China remains poorly understood and even feared among Central Asians.
Thomas Schaffner, Russia Matters
John Mearsheimer is a leading American international relations scholar and one of the foremost living proponents of an offensive realist model of international relations. According to Mearsheimer, this model posits that states strive to maximize their power in the world and seek hegemony, at least in a given region, to protect themselves against the intrinsic anarchy of the international system. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor... Читать дальше...
Rmi Carayol, LobeLog
by Rmi Carayol The French army takes pride in regularly announcing ??victories?? in the Sahel, where it has been operating for five years under the name ??Operation Barkhane.?? These may be the destru?
Dmitri Stratievski, Riddle
Dmitry Stratievski on German media coverage of the recent Moscow City Duma elections
Michael Green, FP
On Beijing's doorstep, Ulaanbaatar continues to defy the geopolitical odds.
Peter Pomerantsev, The American Interest
The "marketplace of ideas" looks as corrupt in 2019 as the "free market" did in 2008.
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, Worldcrunch
It would not be the first time Brazil and Argentina vie to clinch privileged ties with Washington, though for its economic weight and its president's conservative fervor, Brazil may be ahead in this game.
Emily Feng, NPR
A government crackdown on China's Muslim minorities has reached the Hui. "The pressure on not just one's religious behavior, but how one lives one's daily life, is unbearable," says a young Hui man.