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“Countries may be refusing to repatriate their citizens from Syria in the name of protecting against terrorism, but in so doing, they are setting in motion a new cycle of suffering and alienation.”
From the archive: In a 1934 essay, Leon Trotsky described an interwar Europe trapped by its capitalist systems, with economic nationalism fueling the rise of fascism, and fascism threatening to bring “nothing except ruin.”
“Can the reimagining of the dawn of today’s flawed societies help foster new, better ones?” Read @WalterScheidel ’s review of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s new book “The Dawn of Everything.”
“A free-world strategy can eventually produce a happy ending. But ‘eventually’ may be a very long time.” @HalBrands discusses how the Biden administration can refine the democracy-versus-autocracy framing behind its foreign policy.
“Putin has turned Victory Day into his own personal holiday, but even Russians could see that this year’s edition came without a victory, and that he was utterly alone.”
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How Spain's overreaction to the Catalan referendum legitimized the call for independence:
In a review of “City on Fire” by Antony Dapiran and “Unfree Speech” by Joshua Wong with Jason Y. Ng, @JanePerlez discusses Beijing’s tightening grip on Hong Kong and the waves of protest the crackdown has inspired:
Under Xi, the Chinese political system is becoming ever more closed—making the service provided by the foreign press corps even more valuable. @JEPomfret discusses the implications of China’s decision to expel some American reporters:
When rising powers have suffered economic slowdowns in the past, they became more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. China seems to be headed down just such a path, argues Michael Beckley.
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