Новости за 07.10.2019

Monica Duffy Toft, IPD
Is America a bully?As a scholar, under the auspices of the Military Intervention Project, I have been studying every episode of U.S. military intervention from 1776 to 2017.Historically, the U.S. advanced from a position of isolationism to one of reluctant intervenor, to global policeman. Based on my research since 2001, I believe that the U.S. has transformed itself into what many others view as a global bully.I do not use the word lightly. But if by definition, a bully... Читать дальше...

Andris Banka, WotR
Fifteen years ago, NATO opened its doors to the Baltic states. In the United States this momentous historical decision is commonly framed either as one of the greatest U.S. foreign policy achievements or an ill-advised move that diluted the alliance by taking on indefensible nations. Meanwhile, Russian contemporary discourse on this matter revolves around broken Western promises not to expand the alliance towards its borders. Either way, the story of Baltic NATO membership is... Читать дальше...

Benoit Faucon, Wall Street Journal
Exit follows broader Chinese pullback from Islamic Republic amid U.S. pressureChina National Petroleum Corp. has pulled out of a $5 billion natural-gas project in Iran as escalating tensions threaten to sever Beijing's trade with Tehran, a key lifeline for the Islamic Republic.The exit by Beijingwhich had vowed to resist U.S. restrictions on Iranis a blow to Tehran's attempts to fight growing economic isolation and comes after Washington brought new sanctions on Chinese companies still trading with Iran.

Marcus Colla, The Interpreter
The anger directed against liberal democratic institutions today is so rarely attached to any specific objectives.Even in a world characterised by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, a renowned political theorist once wrote, people will nevertheless struggle against that peace and prosperity. Despite relative contentment with the general state of affairs, a certain boredom will drive people to strike against the status quo, tearing at the fabric of the system they inhabit... Читать дальше...

The Economist
China's leader is stoking hair-trigger nationalism with his idea that the Communist Party never makes mistakes

L. Thompson, Forbes
This week's media coverage of the World Trade Organization's decision to approve U.S. tariffs on European products in response to illegal subsidies of jetliners has followed a familiar pattern.The dominant themes are that there are no winners in trade wars; that America and Europe both have legitimate complaints against how the other side's aerospace sector has operated; and that the tariffs the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) plans to impose later this month are part of a... Читать дальше...

Abhishek Kumar Sushil, DKODING
China's lure to countries with its apparent cause of a global trade route of the 21st century threatens India's external sovereignty and future trade route security.

Amitai Etzioni, National Interest
A nuclear-armed Iran is going to be one of Donald Trump's going-away presents to the international community.

J. Fund, NRO
Elites ignore at their own risk voters who want political accountability and more control over national borders.

Illia Ponomarenko, Kyiv Post
A week after the ill-fated Steinmeier Formula was agreed on in Minsk, Ukrainians stay flustered and angered about it. An estimated 10,000 persons gathered on Independence Square in Kyiv, joined by many more in other cities, to protest fiercely against what they see as deadly concessions to Russia over Donbas by President Volodymyr Zelensky. A

Shak Hill, Washington Times
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since the 1947 partition created the two states; two of the three were over Kashmir. None of those wars occurred when either country possessed nuclear weapons.

Gregory Aftandilian, LobeLog
by Gregory Aftandilian Although large-scale protests succeeded this past spring in forcing the resignation of Algeria??s aged and feeble President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, his removal from office has n?

A.Miller & R. Sokolsky, CNN
It appears that if there's anything Secretary of State Mike Pompeo learned from his predecessor Rex Tillerson, it's not to oppose President Donald Trump or make him unhappy, write Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky.

Jan Techau, The American Interest
It's neither pacifism, nor a proclivity to free-riderism, nor (strictly speaking) a sense of moral certainty that leads Germans to shirk their security responsibilities. It's actually a profound psychological sense of self-doubt that's to blame.

Bassem Mroue, AP
BEIRUT (AP) U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces said American troops began pulling back Monday from positions along the border in northeast Syria ahead of an expected Turkish invasion that the Syrian Kurds say will overturn five years of achievements in the battle against the Islamic State group.The Syrian Kurdish fighters also accused Washington of failing to abide by its commitments to its key allies in the fight against IS. It's a major shift in U.S. policy.

Humphrey Hawksley, Nikkei
Looking to regional neighbors for closer trade relationships is bearing fruit

Chad O'Carroll, NK News
Update: North Korea late on Sunday said negotiations with the U.S. would not resume until Washington conducts a complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy threatening DPRK security and preventing its economic development. The first working-level DPRK-U.S. talks to have taken place since the Hanoi summit ended on Saturday with a deeply negative North

Henry Boyd & Meia Nouwens, IISS
For Henry Boyd and Meia Nouwens, China's 2019 national day parade placed the military within a broader context, highlighting the importance of leveraging both military and civilian talent to progress towards becoming a military that can fight and win wars.

Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
It's been a long time since he delivered such a chilling and ominous speech at a festive occasion, the swearing-in of the 22nd Knesset on Oct. 3. A faltering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the event to make the following remarks: We are facing an enormous security challenge, which only intensifies from week to week. It increased profoundly in the last month or two, and, in particular, in the last few weeks. This isn't spin, it's not a whim, this is not Netanyahu trying to scare us,' said the prime minister... Читать дальше...