B. Kristian, RCW
President Trump’s recent hospitalization with COVID-19 raised a litany of questions: How will this affect the election? Would the 25th Amendment be invoked to make Vice President Mike Pence our acting executive? And while so much uncertainty swirled through Washington,
Y. Mohmad Abdalla, Afr. Arg.
The agreement is promising, but two influential rebel groups have refused to sign it, while paying for it will be challenging.
J. Quinn, National Review
Today’s election suggests that the council is not any better than the commission that it replaced -- and it might even be worse.
L. Broers, CH
Whether a ceasefire is possible in a new Armenian-Azerbaijani war and talks can meaningfully resume depends on an elusive international commitment to a long-neglected conflict.
Patrick Jenkins, Financial Times
2020 marks the year when Beijing finally threw open its doors to US banks despite broader Sino-American tensions.
Economist
A fleet of cheap Turkish drones is slicing through Armenian defences
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
IMF analyses point to more co-operation between governments and the private sector
James Holmes, TNI
It’s crucial to remember and learn from defeat.
Bruce Hoffman, CFR
Heavily armed, right-wing groups are poised to rebel against the election if President Trump loses, an extraordinary danger to U.S. democracy.
Pavel Luzin, Riddle
Pavel Luzin explains why the Russian approach to disarmament of chemical weapons is so controversial
Steven Cook, FP
The United States is threatening to close its outpost in Baghdad. It should have done so yesterday.
David Herszenhorn, Politico EU
EU leaders worry the transatlantic relationship won’t survive another four years.
N. Tucker & A. Cohen, Atlantic Council
For the third time in fifteen years, citizens in Kyrgyzstan rose up in protest, as opposition groups took over government buildings amidst charges of vote rigging in the recent parliamentary elections. Demonstrations on October 6 saw hundreds wounded and one person killed, as protestors broke into government buildings, freed imprisoned ex-president Almazbek Atambayev, and forced President Sooronbai Jeenbekov into...
Djoomart Otorbaev, Project Syndicate
A popular uprising has overthrown a Kyrgyz government for the third time in less than two decades, confirming the country as a political outlier in Central Asia. But this month's events put Kyrgyzstan in real danger of sinking into an abyss of confusion and chaos.
Hal Brands, Bloomberg
Small wars can tell you a lot about the biggest geopolitical and military issues of the day. Consider the present conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Most Americans have probably never heard of that disputed region in the Caucasus. But the fighting there reveals key fault lines in an increasingly disordered global environment, and it underscores crucial trends in the evolution of modern warfare.
Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures
For such a historic transition of power, the handover from Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving and most powerful postwar prime minister, to Yoshihide Suga was always going to be short on drama. Suga, Abe’s longtime chief of staff, faced only token competition from a handful of other ruling party bigwigs. His ruling Liberal Democratic Party commands large majorities in both houses of the Diet and doesn’t need to call for elections right away, diminishing... Читать дальше...