David Axe, National Interest
European missile-maker MBDA is working on a new high-altitude missile-interceptor, one that could represent the first step toward a uniquely European missile-defense system. But the new interceptor won't solve what is probably the biggest problem with Europe's missile-shield.
Lydia Polgreen, G'dian
The viral spread of misinformation, widening news deserts and the proliferation of fake news will threaten life as we know it
Edward Lucas, Center for European Policy Analysis
30 years later, Edward Lucas looks back to the Velvet Revolution and finds that the spirit of 1989 is still alive and still needed.
Stephen Rasche, RealClearWorld
While much of the West focuses itself inward, something astonishing is happening in Iraq, a country in which thousands of Western lives have been lost and more than one trillion Western dollars have been spent. Iraq's future as a free and responsible nation may well depend on its outcome. The future of pluralism in Iraq's political system may also hang in the balance, as may the long-term survivability of the country's Christians and other minorities.
Michael Tanchum, TPQ
In early September 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an surprised many in the international community with his declaration that it was unacceptable for nuclear armed powers to prohibit Turkey from acquiring nuclear weapons. While many analysts dismissed Erdo?an's declaration as more rhetorical posturing designed to advance Turkey's status in the regional security architecture, the president's remarks reveal Turkey's perception of its own deepening strategic vulnerability vis-a-vis its regional rivals. Читать дальше...
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Almost everyone agrees the country needs to take on more responsibility for security. Where they struggle is how to go about it.
Laurie Garrett, For. Policy
It's not the disease that's worrisomeit's the Chinese government's response to it.
A. Ramzy & C. Buckley, NYT
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
Julia Lovell, Globe and Mail
Statements of the past few weeks enunciate a zeal for moral micromanagement that we probably haven't seen since the last days of the Cultural Revolution in 1976
James Jay Carafano, National Interest
The crisis in Bolivia has an urgent message for environmental policy in the United States.
James Forsyth, Spectator
It will be the biggest moment of the campaign so far. On Tuesday night, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in an ITV debate. I say in The Sun this morning that this debate is the
M. Tasic, Dipl.
Western analysts might be fundamentally misreading North Korea's strategic thought, with huge implications for any future conflict.
James Marriott, New Statesman
My first memory of a historic event is from 2001. I was nine years old and just home from school. Sitting in front of the TV in my mum's living room I watched an aeroplane fly out of a cloudless blue sky and into the side of a tall building in New York. Then another aeroplane did the same thing. It looked like the end of the world. The terror attacks on 9/11 were a fittingly apocalyptic introduction to current affairs. The politics of the 21st century is haunted by intimations of looming world-historic crisis. Читать дальше...
Fyodor Krashennikov, Moscow Times
Opinion The swift collapse of the Evo Morales regime hands all the trump cards to adherents of harsh police tactics and tough responses.
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Paul Goble Staunton, November 14 Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, one of the most important questions has been wheth...
Tim Arango et al, NYT
Hundreds of leaked intelligence reports shed light on a shadow war for regional influence and the battles within the Islamic Republic's own spy divisions