| | | | Fareed: The Left Needs an Answer to Nationalism | | As populist nationalism surges across the globe, liberals have yet to find an answer to it, Fareed writes in his latest Washington Post column.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's victory in Israel is just the latest example, Fareed writes; the "danger for liberals is that they underestimate the power of these raw, emotional appeals," as populist leaders play up nationalist grievances.
In the US, Democrats "still don't seem to get it," Fareed writes, as they move to the left on economics while President Trump continues to score points on immigration. "What if Trump understands the mood of our times better than [Bernie] Sanders?" Fareed asks. | | How to Restart Talks With North Korea | | After South Korean President Moon Jae-in's meeting with President Trump this week, The Atlantic's Uri Friedman lays out Moon's strategy as a go-between seeking to restart US/North Korea talks. The key, it seems, will be getting the US to scale back from its proposal of a grand bargain (complete denuclearization in exchange for peace and economic welcoming), and North Korea to go a bit further than its small-scale offering in Hanoi (destroying its main enrichment facility in exchange for sanctions relief).
Moon will seek to get a "good enough" deal on the table—ideally, a series of incremental steps (North Korea's preferred method) toward a grand finale (America's preferred end state). After South Korea's high hopes were dashed in Hanoi, he has a good deal riding on it. | | Turkey's Opposition Finds a Star | | | President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's opponents have struggled, amid his popularity and tight grip on media, but Ayla Jean Yackley writes in Foreign Affairs that they may have found a rising star.
Though results are contested, Ekrem Imamoglu appears to have secured Istanbul's mayorship, and he did it by focusing on "everyday grievances, such as traffic congestion and job creation." He won over Kurdish votes, which may have swung the election, offering a broad appeal. A talented politician, Imamoglu didn't attack Erdogan personally, but he railed against Turkey's ruling elites and found a winning message in doing so, Yackley writes. | | Europe Comes Back Together | | For all the talk about Europe coming apart, it turns out European "cohesion" has returned to levels not seen since before the global financial crash.
The European Council on Foreign Affairs measures "cohesion" in all EU countries every two years, in terms of things like country cooperation with EU policies and individuals' support for the union. The latest data show overall EU cohesion at a high point since 2007. The group's new comparison spans 2007 to 2017—as of the latest data, the UK ranked lowest, and Luxembourg and Belgium (the latter, fittingly, as the seat of EU governance) topped the list—and they tell a story of "breathtaking resilience" in the face of turmoil, the group writes. | | The UK: A Potential Hotbed of Right-Wing Extremism | | The UK has become fertile ground for right-wing extremists, The Economist warns. "Taboos have shifted," the magazine writes, with politicians labeled "traitors" much more casually, and a virulent strain of right-wing politics becoming more and more mainstream, in a country where attitudes toward the far-right have been "complacent," historically.
The trend comes as Britain has enough political introspection on its plate, with Brexit posing fundamental challenges to the current party system. | | | | | | |
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