Week of February 15, 2016 Archives

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Monday, February 15
No European Border, No Schengen
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Diplomacy as Anesthetic in Syria
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
Turkey's Civil War Is Escalating
K. Kuntz & O. Burcak Belli, Der Spiegel
Europe Extends a Hand to Belarus
G. Dudina & M. Korostikov, W-Crunch
Technocrats Are Not the Answer for Ukraine
Christopher Miller, GMF
Beware the Bouncing Cannonball of Rage
Boris Johnson, Telegraph
On Left, on Right, Europe Organizes Hatred Once More
M. Nawaz, DB
Stop Blaming Russia for Europe's Political Mess
Scott Radnitz, FP
Hillary Rewrites History on Iran
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Requiem for a Great Waterway
Economist
Brexit and the Special Relationship
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
China Crouches, America Slouches
Peter Navarro, World Affairs Journal
Is the British Pub Dying, and Might Starbucks Kill It?
Mark Gilbert, BV
An Important Day for Iran and the Middle East
M. Sahimi, Nat'l Interest
Why Is Australian Health Care so Good?
Ranjana Srivastava, Guardian
Here Is Why Europe's Jews Are so Worried
Harold James, Reuters
Tuesday, February 16
Why Obama's Middle East Policy Is Failing
K. Pollack & B. Walter, WSJ
In Syria, Russia Is in Charge
Marc Champion, Bloomberg View
Eurasia's Coming Anarchy
Robert Kaplan, Foreign Affairs
Is Humanity Getting Better?
Leif Wenar, New York Times
Giving Scotland What It Wants
Alex Massie, Spectator
Saudi Arabia Should Not Send Troops to Syria
Alex Decina, Daily Beast
The Changes in Europe's Politics Are Permanent
M. Newland, National
Make in India Can't Catch Made in China
T.N. Ninan, Quartz
Trudeau's Baffling Omission in Holocaust Remembrance
Marmur, Star
This Election Ends American Exceptionalism
C.A. Montaner, RCWorld
More Trouble Ahead for MENA Economies
Sami Karam, New Geo.
War Redraws Syria's Demographic Map Forever
E. Dubuis, Worldcrunch
Deceit and Hypocrisy in the South China Sea
Mark Valencia, Japan Times
After Scalia's Death, UK Should Focus on Its High Court
H. Zeffman, NS
Podemos Wants a 'Plural National State' in Spain
F. Manetto, El Pais
Showdown in the South China Sea
CNN
Wednesday, February 17
Russia Wields the Kurdish Weapon
Walter Mead, American Interest
Syria Cease-Fire Brings Turkey Closer to War
R. Gutman, Foreign Policy
Spring Could Bring a Surge of Refugees to Europe
Witte & Faiola, WaPo
Is Next Steve Jobs Really Among Syria's Migrants?
Ed West, Spectator
The Forgotten Truth About Why America Invaded Iraq
Max Fisher, Vox
Friendly Dictators Can't Save the Arab World
David Blair, Telegraph
The GOP's New Foreign Policy Populism
Jacob Heilbrunn, Natl Interest
What 'The Donald' Would Mean for Asia
John Lee, Nikkei Asian Review
David Cameron Can't Win on Brexit
John Rentoul, Politico EU
Narendra Modi and the Fine Art of Screwing Up
Devjyot Ghoshal, Quartz
India Must Choose Freedom over Intolerance
P. Gopal, The Guardian
Why Poland Needs American Support
Witold Waszczykowski, NY Times
Healing the Scars of Bataclan
Julia Heyer & Petra Truckendanner, Spiegel
Iran's Revolutionary Grandchildren
Robin Wright, The New Yorker
How Cows Can End the South Sudan War
Justin Lynch, The Daily Beast
Thursday, February 18
Europe's Political Center Is Caving in
G. Wheatcroft, National Interest
The U.S., the EU, and NATO
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The Problem With ISIS
Aaron David Miller, RealClearWorld
Will Lebanon Ever Pick a President?
Vanessa Newby, Lowy Interpreter
Owning Iraq
Thomas Donnelly, Weekly Standard
What Do We Know About the Saudis and 9/11?
Max Fisher, Vox
What Happens Now in Syria?
Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
China's Weird, Empty Malls
Adam Minter, Bloomberg View
Bolivia's Scandal: Sex, Politics, and China
A. Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
The Love Scandal That May Doom Bolivia's Leader
E. Londono, NYT
Pope Francis Goes to Juarez
Teresa Puente, Vice
Obama Refuses to Hit ISIS's Libyan Capital
Nancy Yousseff, Daily Beast
Anti-Semitism in the British Left Is Rife
Jonathan Marks, Commentary
Trump Didn't Oppose the Iraq War
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
Is an ISIS Attack on U.S. Inevitable?
CNN
Friday, February 19
The War of Western Failure
Der Spiegel
The Turbulent Rise of Syria's Kurds
Amberin Zaman, Foreign Policy
Crafting a U.S.-China Dream
Maurits Elen & Kevin Rudd, The Diplomat
Did the EU Meddle With Turkish Elections?
Jasper Mortimer, Al-Monitor
What Tiny Bahrain Tells Us About Today's Mideast
Kevin Sullivan, RCW
Islam Versus Islam
Shahid Javed Burki, Project Syndicate
Spain's Politics Are Being Reinvented
Omar Encarnacion, WP Review
Spain's Own Game of Thrones
Miguel-Anxo Murado, Guardian
What China Covets - Space Aliens and Scientists
A. Minter, Bloom. View
The Two-State Solution Is Dead. Now What?
Alan Philps, The National
A Clash of Foreign Policies
Maxim Trudolyubov, Wilson Center
Trump's Iraq Flip-Flop
Andrew Kaczynski & Nathan McDermott, BuzzFeed
Trump Was Right on Iraq
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Obama Tries to Understand Cyberwar
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Obama and Asia's Autocrats
C-Span
Saturday, February 20
Why NATO Would Lose Most of Europe to Russia
Robert Farley, TNI
Putin Makes a Powerful New Enemy
Owen Matthews, Spectator
Cameron Strikes a European Deal
Economist
The Global Case for Staying in the EU
Charles Grant, New Statesman
The EU Deal: A Global Loss
Charles Moore, Telegraph
Getting North Korea Wrong
Yevgen Sautin, The American Interest
An Icon of Peace in Burundi Turns to War
Farah Stockman, Boston Globe
Syria, Land of the Dead and Dying
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Melting Glaciers Reveal Swiss Treasures
Xavier Lambiel, Worldcrunch
The Scramble to Save the Anti-ISIS Coalition
Lake & Rogin, Bloom. View
The Pope, Dope, and Mexican Satanic Cults
Jeremy Kryt, Daily Beast
France's John Kasich Is Winning
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy
Change for Argentina Won't Come Easy
Lally Weymouth, Washington Post
How a Thai Leader Learned She'd Been Deposed
CNN
Inside a Besieged Aleppo
BBC News
Sunday, February 21
Fight or Flight: America's Mideast Choice
Ken Pollack, Foreign Affairs
Why Did the US Really Bomb Libya?
Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor
The Media Are Misleading the Public on Syria
Stephen Kinzer, Globe
America and Saudi Arabia Need Each Other
Hussein Ibish, The National
The UK Wasn't a Real EU Member Anyway
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Brexit Debate Can't Be Left to Tories
Andrew Rawnsley, The Guardian
What's Going on in Spain?
Joel Weickgenant, RealClearWorld
How US Muscle Brought Iran to Heel
Richard Nephew, Chatham House
Iran Isn't Sweating Saudi Intervention in Syria
J. Matthew McInnis, TNI
Ukraine's Grim Slide
Walter Russell Mead & Damir Marusic, American Int.
Low Oil Prices May Be Good News for These Countries
C. Groskopf, QZ
Debunking the Myths of China in Africa
Jonathan Dove, The Diplomat
The Dominican Republic of Baseball
Michael Hanson, New York Times
Walking a Cabbage in Kashmir
Parul Abrol, Narratively
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