Week of February 13, 2012 Archives

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Monday, February 13
Don't Rush Into Syria
Leslie Gelb, Newsweek
A Free Hand for U.S. Special Forces?
Schmitt, Mazzetti & Shanker, NYT
Why Greece and Portugal Should Go Bankrupt
Wolfgang Munchau, FT
China's Political Star Xi a Study in Contrasts
Demick & Pierson, LA Times
Obama, Speak to Iranians on the Street
Azadeh Moaveni, The Guardian
Canadians Shun a Broke Quebec
Lysiane Gagnon, Globe and Mail
Coming Mediterranean Energy War
Julia Damianova, National Interest
Why Is China Hoarding Copper?
Gordon Chang, Forbes
Arab Spring Lessons from the Maldives
Miles Kellerman, RealClearWorld
Hong Kong's Mainland Worries
Trefor Moss, The Diplomat
Learning to Live With Global Violence
Martin Eiermann, The European
Israel Saved By Her Enemies
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Why Is China Getting Canada's Oil?
Rick Perry, Wall Street Journal
Vengeance Stalks Libya
Mustafa Fetouri, The National
Coping With the Tyranny of Distance
Patrick Porter, The Offshore Balancer
Tuesday, February 14
China Is No Harmless Tiger
Yu Jie, Washington Post
Washington's Free Pass for China's Rulers Must End
Scott Paul, Politico
Greece Must Leave the Euro
Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
Germany Faces a Machine from Hell
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Americans Should Pay Attention to Europe
Bruce Stokes, Yale Global
Liberal Hawks Ready to Soar over Syria
David Rieff, Foreign Policy
The Libyan Non-Model
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Syria's Kurds Could Lose in Post-Assad Scenario
Idris Ahmedi, WPR
Jihadist Opportunities in Syria
Kamran Bokhari, Stratfor
Bin Laden Gave Up on Jihad
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Kabul Risks Political Meltdown
Haroun Mir, New York Times
One Year Later, Bahrain Slow to Reform
Gregg Carlstrom, Al Jazeera
Canada Sells Out to China
Andrew Cohen, Ottawa Citizen
Giving BRICS a Non-Western Vision
Samir Saran & Vivan Sharan, Hindu
The Iranian Threat to New York City
Mitchell Silber, Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, February 15
Give Diplomacy With Iran a Chance
Dennis Ross, New York Times
Iran Menace a Black-and-White Choice
Benny Morris, Los Angeles Times
U.S. Should Root for Xi to Succeed
Jeffrey Bader, Foreign Policy
Beijing's Leadership Opera
Brian Rhoads & Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters
China's Biggest Challenge Is Itself
Jonathan Fenby, The Guardian
Old Habits Hinder U.S.-Russia Ties
Charap & Troitskiy, American Interest
Russian Arms Used to Slaughter Syrians
Sam Segev, Winnipeg Free Press
Assad Hoping for Unilateral Invasion
Salman Shaikh, The Daily Beast
Kosovo Shows How the West Can Intervene in Syria
Radwan Ziadeh, FT
Obama's Falklands Failure
Robert O'Brien, The Diplomat
Arab States More Stable Than They Appear
Ezzedine Fishere, Daily Star
Reality of Hamas-Fatah Unity
Ramzy Baroud, Gulf News
EU's Emissions Trading System Isn't Working
Alexander Jung, Spiegel
Canada Risks Being Left Empty-Handed in Asia
Jeffrey Simpson, G&M
An African Leader Whose Time Has Ended
G. Pascal Zachary, The Atlantic
Thursday, February 16
A History Lesson Could Deter Iran
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
A Callous EU Is Destroying Greece
Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
Can U.S. & China Build a Stable World?
Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
How I'll Respond to a Rising China
Mitt Romney, Wall Street Journal
Pakistan's Islamist Resurgence
Praveen Swami, The Hindu
The Far-Right Threat to German Democracy
Der Spiegel
Attack on Iran Easier Said Than Done
David Isenberg, Cato Institute
How the Iran Standoff Looks from Saudi Arabia
Mustafa Alani, Bloomberg
Rising Powers Can't Copy the West
Heather Horn, The Atlantic
Washington's War in Yemen Backfires
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
Moving Backward in Palestine
Houriya Ahmed, NOW Lebanon
Terrorists Often Botch Bangkok Bombings
Alan Dawson, Bangkok Post
India Must Draw a Red Line With Iran
B Raman, Times of India
Obama, Take the Offensive on Cuba
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Tribal Bonds Give Arabs an Edge in Syria
Hassan Hassan, The National
Friday, February 17
Where China Isn't Winning
David Lundquist, The National Interest
Why Isn't the U.S. as Serious as China?
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
A Year After Uprising, Militias Hold Sway in Libya
Maggie Michael, AP
Islamist Plot Behind the Libyan Rebellion
John Rosenthal, Nat'l Review
Striking Iran's Nuke Program Out of Israel's League
Yoel Marcus, Haaretz
Are Terror Plots Just Iranian Electioneering?
Con Coughlin, Telegraph
Muslim Bros. Threaten to Review Israel Treaty
David Kirkpatrick, NYT
From Bad to Worse in Egypt
Daniel Calingaert, Wall Street Journal
How a Local Scandal Highlights the New China
Alan Philps, The National
Winners, Losers in China Party Games
Rowan Callick, The Australian
Taliban Talks: Making Peace with the Guilty
Michael Hayden, CNN
Tribalism and the Arab Spring
Ruth Sherlock, Bitter Lemons
How the West Won Canada's Battle for Workers
John Ivison, Nat'l Post
In South Sudan, Oil Shutoff Sparks National Pride
Robyn Dixon, LATimes
Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012
Steve Coll, The New Yorker
Saturday, February 18
Why Iran Thinks It Needs the Bomb
Ray Takeyh, Washington Post
Iran's Fragile Leadership
David Frum, National Post
EU Needs More Countries Like Greece
Fabian Lindner, The Guardian
Europe's Proud Empire Enters Cul de Sac
Andrew Roberts, Financial Times
The Long March of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Economist
Don't Hype the China Threat
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
How U.S.-Iran Standoff Looks from Iran
Hossein Mousavian, Bloomberg
What's Behind a Leaky Vatican?
Stephan Faris, Time
Inside Free Syria
Jonathan Spyer, Weekly Standard
Russia's Not Completely Wrong on Syria
Edward Burke, CER
Are Egypt's Generals Losing Control of Their Officers?
Patrick Galey, FP
The GOP's Worrisome Belligerence
Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute
U.S. Naive When it Comes to Iran
Michael Rubin, Fox News
How Medvedev Boosted Russia
Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
Why China Is Winning in Africa
Richard Aidoo, The Diplomat
Sunday, February 19
The End of American Intervention
James Traub, New York Times
Asia's Game of Thrones Goes DC
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Pakistan and Osama bin Laden
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Libya Reveals Perils of Humanitarian War
Peter Beaumont, Observer
Syria Crisis Making Odd Bedfellows for West
Peter Oborne, The Telegraph
Syria's Christians Will Suffer After Assad
David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
The West's Religion in Government Problem
Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
Is Egypt's Government Malicious or Incompetent?
Eric Trager, TNR
Rising Democracies Take on Russia and China
Piccone & Alinikoff, TNI
Trade Is War, By Other Means
Irwin Stelzer, Weekly Standard
Afghan Women Fear Taliban Talks
Magsie Hamilton-Little, Daily Beast
Waiting for Spring in Central Asia
Scott Radnitz, Foreign Policy
Putin in the Hot Seat
Amanda Paul, Sunday's Zaman
Religion Increasing Source of Strife in Africa
Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
China's (Probably Doomed) Hollywood Partnership
Damien Ma, Atlantic
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