Week of February 2, 2015 Archives

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Monday, February 2
Only Guns Can Stop Putin's Guns
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
The Guns of Ukraine Won't Be Silenced
Pyotr Romanov, Moscow Times
Iran's Powerful non-Nuclear "Bomb"
G. Nuseibeh & E. Epstein, J-Post
A Manual for Postmodern Autocrats
R. Kaplan & D. Rand, Bloomberg View
Democrats Rebel Against Obama's Foreign Policy
Jackson Diehl, WaPo
The World's Best Sports Fans Live in Dortmund
Matt Negrin, Narratively
Hope from Europe's Left Field
Bleri Lleshi, EU Observer
The U.S. Does not Need Iran as an Ally
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, NOW
A Magna Carta Reunion in British Library
BBC
Indy Catalonia Might Be Investment-Worthy
N. Ottens, Atlantic Sentinel
In Castro's Cuba, a Safe Haven for Jews
Emily Shire, Daily Beast
The Dangers of Asian Multipolarity
Julian Snelder, The Interpreter
A New Hinduism Emerges
Akhilesh Pillalamarri, The Diplomat
ISIS and the Taliban Team Up in Pakistan
Tom Hussain, The National
Tuesday, February 3
Ukraine Brutality Is a Soviet Military Legacy
Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Escaping ISIS: Death or Prison
Lori Hinnant & Paul Schemm, AP
In Europe's Crisis, a Huge Opportunity for Tories
J. Forsyth, Spectator
Who Solzhenitsyn Really Was
Brian Anderson, New Criterion
Fry's anti-God Outburst: Illegal in 49 Countries
P Dhaliwal, Independent
Remember the Stakes in Israel-U.S. Relations
Nimrod Noy, Jerusalem Post
It's time to Compromise on Greece
Dirk Kurbjuweit, Spiegel
The Big Fuss Over Mugabe's AU Chairmanship
J. Schneider, Al Jazeera
China Unmoved by U.S.-India Courtship
Dingding Chen, The Diplomat
Explaining Erdogan's Pivot Away from West
Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Switzerland's Currency Battle Plan
M. Gilbert & J. Greiff, Bloomberg View
ISIS Is just a Death Cult with an Army
George Packer, New Yorker
Angela Merkel's Visit to Hungary
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Sizing Up the World's Largest Cities
Wendell Cox, New Geography
Read more on cities and urbanization
Wednesday, February 4
The Toxic Terror Brew: Land, Money and a Story
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Ghost Towns in Eastern Ukraine
Max Seddon, BuzzFeed
Guantanamo's Place in U.S. Caribbean Strategy
Sim Tack, Stratfor
An Embarrassment for Russian Intel
Samuel Bendett, RealClearWorld
Russia's Media-in-Exile Fight an Uphill Battle
Hannah Gais, FPBN
Italy' new anti-Corruption President
C. Gegout, The Conversation
Arming Ukraine Won't Help
Joshua Keating, Slate
The Disaster that Looms over the South China Sea
Sean Mirski, TNI
With ISIS Losing, Time for U.S. to Step up in Iraq
K. Pollack, NY Times
Harsh Realities for North Korean Diplomacy
Brian Benedictus, China PI
Scotland Didn't Kill the UK, but Cameron Might
Gordon Brown, Guardian
The World's Best International Relations Schools
D. Maliniak et al, FP
Gaza Has no Savior
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz
Why I'm Glad I Watched the ISIS Snuff Video
Piers Morgan, Daily Mail
Slain Prosecutor Had a Warrant for Argentine Pres
A. Chandler, Atlantic
Did Austerity Lead to a Suicide Spike in Greece?
Amar Toor, The Verge
Thursday, February 5
ISIS Just Overplayed Its Hand
Hassan Hassan, The National
The God of Thunder Returns to Iceland
Nina Strochlic, Daily Beast
Jordanians Are on the Warpath
Martin Chulov, The Guardian
Recession Curbs Russia's Propaganda Push
R. Orttung & E. Nelson, MT
Let's not Start a U.S.-Russia Proxy War
Michael Kofman, National Interest
Kofman writes in response to this report on arming Ukraine. 
Debating the Theology of Immolation
T McCoy & A Taylor, WaPo
London Dashes the Urbanist Train Fantasy
WR Mead, American Interest
China Has no Need to Confront the West
Wang Yawei, Asia Sentinel
The Future of Force
Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate
Indonesia's Great Hope, or More of the Same?
Economist
Squatters Save a Classic Roman Theater
Marcelle Padovani, L'Obs
Cameron Easily Outclasses Labour's Leaders
Lloyd Evans, The Spectator
A New Political World Emerges in Europe
Neal Lawson, New Statesman
Putting Greece in the Penalty Box
Dan Davies, Medium
Why Obama's Asia Pivot Is Failing
Harry Kazianis, China Policy Institute
Friday, February 6
Can U.S. and China Redefine Great Power Relations?
K. Rudd, HuffPo
Draghi Hands Off the Crisis
Kaj Leers, RealClearWorld
What Cuba Has Cost the World
Carlos Alberto Montaner, RealClearWorld
Obama: We Will Continue to Move Slow
Gopal Ratnam, Foreign Policy
The Danger if Jordan Destabilizes
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Europe's Moment of Truth Approaches
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Uruguay's Too-Good-To-Be-True President
Eve Fairbanks, New Republic
Putin Makes a Joke of History
Natalie Nougayrede, The Guardian
The Quiet War in Sinai
Ramzy Baroud, Asia Times
Did Saudi King Set the Stage for a Royal Row?
F.G. Gause, Foreign Affairs
Thai General Seeks Japan's Blessing
P. Chachavalpongpun, Japan Times
A Plane Crash Across the Strait
Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat
Obama Has no Red Lines on Iran
Abraham Ben-Zvi, Israel Hayom
Syria, the Ultimate Example of Realpolitik
Marc Pierini, EU Observer
Is the BBC's Tudor Tour de Force a Flop?
Michael Leapman, Telegraph
Saturday, February 7
Why the ISIS Videos are Getting Worse
Simon Cottee, The Atlantic
Syrian Civil War Persists Despite ISIS Threat
Zeina Karam, Miami Herald
Obama's ISIS Strategy? Wait It Out
Fradkin & Libby, Am. Interest
Will China Join the Fight Against ISIS?
Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, NI
Is China Preparing for Currency War?
William Pesek, Bloomberg View
Iran's Middle East Goals Go Beyond Israel
Anthony Cordesman, Reuters
Will the West Sell Out Ukraine?
Charles Crawford, Telegraph
The Pentagon Diagnosed Putin with Asperger's
Elizabeth Ralph, Politico
Nothing Changes for Tibet Despite Obama's Meeting
Jay Michaelson, DB
Chechnya Has an Image Problem
Ivan Sukhov, Moscow Times
Boko Haram, and Massacres Ruled by Whim
Adam Nossiter, NYT
Australia's Leadership Crisis
Michael Gordon, SMH
Sunday, February 8
Europeans Laugh at Russia's Foreign Minister
J. Rogin, Bloomberg View
Considering a Punitive Expedition Against IS
Steven Metz, WPR
At Calais, a United Nations of Misery
Darius Bazargan, The European
Can China Build a Eurasian Empire?
Artyom Lukin, The Diplomat
Syriza Hits Many of the Right Notes
Manfred Ertel et al, Spiegel Online
World War II Debt Could Strain Greek-German Ties
The Local
Fleeing a Promised Land in France
Griff Witte, Washington Post
India's Top-Cop Novelist
Prashant Agrawal, Ozy
Maps that Shaped the World
Paul Kerley, BBC
The Houthis Now Run Yemen
Joshua Keating, Slate
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