Week of September 5, 2016 Archives

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Monday, September 5
A U.S. History Lesson for Turkey and Saudi Arabia
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
Nationalists Overtake Merkel's Party in German State Vote
Geir Moulson, AP
Merkel's Fight Against Europe's Far-Right Begins at Home
Peter Foster, Telegraph
Forget Containment: Saudi Arabia Wants to Roll Back Iran
Arash Reisinezhad, TNI
Rouhani May Be Iran's First One-Term President
Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor
Life in Apple's Ireland
Jennifer Duggan, Foreign Policy
Labour Is Poised to Back Corbyn Again, Even if Britain Isn’t
Steven Erlanger, NYT
Mapping Britain's Exit From Europe
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
A Shaky Holding Operation in Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid, Financial Times
Mexicans Gave Trump the Hostile Welcome He Deserved
Vicente Fox, Guardian
Why Mexico’s Outreach to Trump Was Smart
Laura Ingraham, LifeZette
Desire for Independence Alive and Well in Hong Kong
Emily Rauhala, Wash Post
China Heads West: Beijing's New Silk Road to Europe
Erich Follath, Der Spiegel
How Both Sides Got Cambodia Wrong
Donald Beachler, The Daily Beast
Tuesday, September 6
In One Week, Obama’s Ambitious Trade Pacts Fall to Pieces
P. Smith, Fiscal Times
Europe, Britain and America's Fading Primacy
Freddy Gray, National Interest
Ukraine Seeks an Unmanned Edge on the Battlefield
Samuel Bendett, RealClearWorld
If Russia Plans a Ukraine Invasion, It Will Come Within Few Weeks
Paul Goble, WOE
What Happens if North Korea Collapses?
Phil Reynolds, The Diplomat
U.S. Intel Investigates Possible Russian Plan to Disrupt Elections
Priest et al, WaPo
Angry French Truckers Strike Over Migrant Threat
Joshua Posaner, Politico EU
Merkel Seeks a Swift Answer to the Populist Challenge
Nikolaus Blome, Fin. Times
Japan and China Tussle Over Africa
Yun Sun, Brookings Institution
NATO Is an Institutional Dinosaur
Ted Galen Carpenter, War on the Rocks
Why the U.S. Still Needs NATO
Michael Ruhle, Berlin Policy Journal
Why Vietnam Treasures Its Relations With Singapore
Xuan Loc Doan, Asia Times
Obama’s Iran Deal Is a Fraud on the American People
Andrew McCarthy, Nat'l Review
Can Israel and Palestine Learn from Colombia?
Dahlia Scheindlin, Jerusalem Post
Spain: One Year, Three Elections?
Economist
Does Terrorism Work?
Thomas Nagel, London Review of Books
Letter From a Bahraini Jail
Nabeel Rajab, New York Times
Wednesday, September 7
Will the Iran Deal Survive the Next Administration?
Barbara Slavin, RealClearWorld
Sleepwalking Into a Big War
Michael Klare, Le Monde Diplomatique
The Euro-American Immigration Crisis
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Donald Trump Calls Himself ‘Mr. Brexit.’ He’s Right.
Nigel Farage, Washington Post
Now That the Shock's Worn Off: What Does Brexit Mean, Really?
Maria Savel, WPR
There's Still a Lot We Don't Know About the Iran Deal
Emily Landau, National Interest
Infrastructure as a Tool of Foreign Policy
Parag Khanna, The Cipher Brief
Putin Shuts Down Last Russian Independent Pollster
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Tracking the U.S. Military's Pivot to Africa
Nick Turse, TomDispatch
Why Are South Sudanese Goons Targeting U.S. Diplomats?
Colum Lynch, For. Policy
The Tajik Tragedy of Uzbekistan
Akhilesh Pillalamarri, The Diplomat
Do We Really Understand the Impact of Global Trade?
Nathaniel Popper, NYT Mag
Taking Fight Against Anti-Semitism to the UN
Danny Danon, New York Post
The Threat to Spain
Brandee Leon, The Strategy Bridge
How One Family's Wine Saved A Remote Italian Island
Flavia Amabile, Worldcrunch
Latin America: Change the U.S. Should Believe In
Frida Ghitis, CNN
Is Iran Creating Little Hezbollahs in Latin America?
Yleem D.S. Poblete, WA Journal
Thursday, September 8
A New Round in the Great Game Begins
Rodger Baker, Stratfor
Turkey's Syria Intervention Is A Huge Gamble
Borzou Daragahi, BuzzFeed
The EU Ditched the Field - Of Course - and Left It Open to Britain
J. Samuel, T'graph
Losing Ground, Fighters and Morale – Is ISIS Done For?
Martin Chulov, Guardian
Colombia Peace Deal Doesn't Solve Its Biggest Problem
A. Oppenheimer, Mia. Herald
The Military Forum With Trump and Clinton Was Terrible
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Another Obama Apology Tour?
Max Boot, Commentary
Obama's Moral Obligation to Laos
Minh Pham, Seattle Times
Inside a Hate-Filled Anti-Israel Protest
Aedan O'Connor, National Post
Trudeau Seats Canada Back at the Kiddie Table
Michael Taube, National Review
The Kremlin Really Believes Hillary Wants War
Clinton Ehrlich, Foreign Policy
Russia's Trump Wants to Nuke the White House
Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Why Russia Is Discrediting American Democracy
Paul Pillar, National Interest
The Twilight for Germany's Chancellor?
Constanze Stelzenmuller, Washington Post
'Order and Progress' Remain Distant Hope for Brazil
Mac Margolis, Bloomberg View
Friday, September 9
Burkinis and Bare Breasts: France Is Complicated
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Mao the Man, Mao the God, Communist China's Ghosts
Sergey Radchenko, For. Policy
Mao Forever: The Great Helmsman's Afterlife
Economist
Trump's Town-Hall Surge
Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
The Insincere Calls for a European Army
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
EU Set to Talk About an Army? Sort Of
Arthur Beesley, Financial Times
Soldiers of Iran's Revolution: A Brief History of the IRGC
Afshon Ostovar, For. Affairs
The Russia Today Election
Casey Michel, Intersection Project
After the Obama-Erdogan Meeting
Bulent Aliriza, CSIS
Somaliland Wants to Secede. But Should It?
Peter Robert Woodward, The Conversation
How to Start Using American Power Prudently
Lawrence Korb, The American Prospect
The Blind Beetles and Child Slaves of Cadiz’s Ancient Underworld
A. Lucas, El Pais
The Answer to Uzbekistan's Needs Is Likely Russia
Dimitriy Nurullayev, The Diplomat
War Funding Has Lost Its Meaning
Fred Ferreira, RealClearDefense
Does Abbas' KGB Past Matter?
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
China Wants It All, But Its Sea Claims Are More Core
Gordon Chang, The Cipher Brief
What Is Aleppo? Gary Johnson Asked an Important Question
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Saturday, September 10
It’s Kim Jong Un’s World; We’re Just Living In It
Walter Russell Mead, American Int.
Hillary Might Disappoint Her Hawkish Boosters
Kevin Sullivan, RealClearWorld
U.S., Russia Seal Cease-Fire, New Military Partnership
B. Klapper & J. Keaten, AP
Syria's World War: How the West Let Russia & Iran Take Charge
John Jenkins, NS
Preparing for the Day After the Syria War Settlement
Steven Metz, World PR
Understanding Russia's Siloviki Wars
Tatiana Stanovaya, Intersection Project
Where Donald and Hillary Were on 9/11
Meghan Keneally & Liz Kreutz, ABC News
This Week, the Presidential Candidates Embarrassed America
K. Parker, Wash. Post
India and Vietnam Unite Against China
Gordon Chang, World Affairs Journal
Why China Fears a 'Color Revolution' Incited by the West
N. Gardels, Huffington Post
Trapped in Homs, Architect Dreams Up Future Syrian Cities
Stephen Heyman, NYT
Where Germans Make Peace With Their Dead
Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker
Spain's Political Mess Is a Blessing, Not a Curse
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
When U.S. Spies Thought Al Qaeda Was Ready to Nuke DC
Shane Harris, Daily Beast
Sunday, September 11
Why Obama Was Snubbed in China
Charles Krauthammer, National Review
Rhetoric or Real? N. Korea Nuke Test May Be Both
F. Klug & K. Tong-hyung, AP
Why Did Sanctions Fail Against North Korea?
David Francis & John Hudson, FP
Syria Peace? Don’t Hold Your Breath
Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast
How 9/11 Changed the CIA
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Almost 60 Percent of Venezuelans Say They Want Out
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Trump's Praise for Putin Galls Both Parties
Rebecca Berg, RealClearPolitics
Meet the Man Who Might Replace Netanyahu
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Mahmoud Abbas and Other Soviet Ghosts
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Donald Trump Is Still Lying About the Iraq War
Michael A. Cohen, Boston Globe
Rising Crime Could Lead to Vigilantism in South Africa
Rian Malan, Daily Maverick
Beyond the Usual South African Reporting on “Africa”
Herman Wasserman, AIC
Where, Oh Where, Has the NDP Gone?
Rex Murphy, National Post
Be Grateful, Americans: Spain to Vote for Third Time in a Year
Lauren Frayer, LAT
Anti-Semitism and the British Left
Dave Rich, New York Times
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