By Daniel Gouré, RealClearDefense: “While it is important to ensure that the U.S. military has the weapons systems needed to deter, if possible, or win, if necessary, any war, this nation has numerous other advantages that must be brought into play as elements of a comprehensive strategy for competing with revanchist and rogue nations.”
(Nikkei Asian Review) China and India's new Great Game has reached the playing field of the original imperial power rivalry in the 19th century: Iran and Central Asia.
(Al-Monitor) Now that direct commercial flights have been restored between their capitals, Russia and Egypt are looking to expand their affiliations. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s re-election enables Cairo to continue the same foreign policy toward Moscow. In a congratulatory cable to his Egyptian counterpart, Vladimir Putin expressed hopes for further cooperation, which is already rather comprehensive, between the two countries.
quoting Niall Ferguson, Russell A. Berman via Telos
With contributions by Étienne Balibar, Annette Becker, Russell Berman, Jörn Leonhard, among many others, Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism focuses within Europe on the conflicts between nationalism and cosmopolitanism as a universalist political project and globally on the conflicts between European imperial politics and universal ideals.