Gady & Stronell, WPR
Last week’s Russia-brokered agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended 44 days of bloody clashes over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh—the first interstate war fought by conventional forces in recent years. The deal calls for Armenia to give up large swathes of territory in and around the breakaway region, which lies within Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized...
Janice Turner, Times of London
n TV interviews, Sir Keir Starmer can’t shake his rabbit-in-the-headlights unease, but on Desert Island Discs he unfurled. Quirky choices like Orange Juice and the northern soul legend Dobie Gray didn’t feel too focus-grouped. He described a childhood darkened by his mother’s chronic illness with rawness yet restraint; his passion for football, marked by the anthem Three Lions, was not some faux-everyman pose.
Mustafa Akyol, Foreign Policy
By championing freedom from religion while trampling freedom of religion, Macron is discrediting the Enlightenment in the eyes of Muslims—and strengthening the Islamists he vows to defeat.
Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
PARIS — When it comes to talking about foreign policy, Emmanuel Macron is definitely a world leader. But the more he talks, the more the French president also reveals his own shortcomings on the international stage.
Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor
Turkey's continued cold war with the Saudi bloc is adding fuel to the brewing conflict in Western Sahara between Algeria and Morocco.
Joe Sestak, TNSR
No country owns the “great commons” of the seas, but when America assumed international leadership after World War II, the U.S. Navy’s primary raison d’être became command of those seas in support of U.S. global interests. Command of the seas meant that the Navy’s mastery of the oceans would assure access almost anywhere for American sovereign power. This would enable the military guarantee of security, political, and economic interests whenever needed, while denying...
Colm Quinn, Foreign Policy
A quarrel over the EU coronavirus fund threatens to stall economic recovery efforts.