Новости за 07.12.2019

Chris Milligan, Foreign Service Journal
Here are the highlights of USAID's ongoing Transformation initiative, undertaken to better meet the development challenges of the 21st century.

Armin Rosen, Tablet Magazine
I first heard of David Zaikin on June 12, 2017, when an acquaintance of mine, a consultant with a suite of exotic international clients, told me he knew someone who had been smeared in Politico, the respected clearinghouse for insider political news. The article, published on April 25, 2017, was headlined, Flynn's Turkish Lobbying Linked

Luke Lischin, East Asia Forum
Author: Luke Lischin, National War College With the announcement of President Joko Jokowi' Widodo's latest cabinet on 23 October 2019, prospects for liberal government reforms have all but vanished. Whether or not Jokowi's appointment of former high-profile members of Indonesia's military and police into cabinet posts was a cunning bid to neutralise his rivals or just a lapse in judgement, the President empowered a national security community set on clawing back influence lost since 1998. Читать дальше...

Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic
GOP lawmakers used to oppose the president's embrace of Putin and the Kremlin. Not anymore.

David Hutt, Asia Times
Hanoi is finding it increasingly difficult to strike a non-aligned balance between the rival superpowers.

Joseph Bosco, Taipei Times
Like no other US president since and including Richard Nixon, Donald Trump has taken bold initiatives to put communist China and North Korea on the strategic defensive.

Ramin Jahanbegloo, The Hindu
Demonstrations in the country, usually triggered by high living costs, invariably end up targeting the religious autocracy

Doug Bandow, National Interest
Quite simply, it makes no sense for U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the defense of nations capable of defending themselves. Shared interests will continue to justify military cooperation. However, the alliance as today constituted no longer serves American interests.

Jonathan Tobin, NRO
While Emmanuel Macron was complaining of NATO's brain death,' European efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions on Iran continued apace.

Asli Aydntaba, ECFR
Rifts over Turkey were on full display in London this week, but the country's place in NATO remains secure. Here's why.