Week of October 10, 2016 Archives
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Monday, October 10
Around the World, the Little Guy Has Had Enough
Nigel Farage
, The
Telegraph
Is American Power Really So Special?
Max Fisher
&
Amanda Taub
,
The Interpreter
What's Really at Stake in the Syria Debate
Marc Lynch
,
War on the Rocks
Obama Demands Tribute From Germany
Christopher Caldwell
,
Weekly Standard
Is China Railroading Kenya Into Debt?
Richard Mungai
,
South China Morning Post
Suspended Democracy for Palestinians
Seth Frantzman
,
Jerusalem Post
Francois Hollande Gets Mugged By Political Sons
Pierre Briancon
,
Politico EU
Islamic Violence Steering Europe’s Future
Daniel Pipes
,
Washington Times
U.S. Should Stop Militarizing the Pacific
Nicholas Borroz
&
Hunter Marston
,
NY Times
Leaderless NDP Looks to Rising Star Jagmeet Singh
Martin Regg Cohn
,
Toronto Star
Trump Rattles Off Greatest Hits of Incoherent Foreign Policy
Josh Keating
,
Slate
GDP Growth of 7 Percent in China? Not Quite
Emily Rauhala
,
Washington Post
A Libertarian Foreign Policy Vision
Gary Johnson
,
The National Interest
Is This the End of the Age of Cheap Air Travel?
Jillian Ambrose
,
Sydney Morning H'ld
Why Is There So Much Greed in English Football?
Hunter Davies
,
New Statesman
Tuesday, October 11
Why Russia Fears NATO
Ted Galen Carpenter
,
National Interest
The Scary Truth About Putin's Aims and Obama's Ignorance
Judith Miller
,
Fox News
Afghan Government Staring at the Abyss
Kamran Bokhari
,
Geopolitical Futures
Trump’s Praise of Russia, Iran, and Assad Riles GOP
Michael Crowley
,
Politico EU
Dear Russia and Trump: I'm Not Sidney Blumenthal
Kurt Eichenwald
,
Newsweek
In Syria, Fight ISIS -- Not Russia
Patrick Buchanan
,
The American Conservative
Candidates, Preparing to Inherit Syria Mess, Offer Few Plans
Matthew Lee
,
AP
In Coastal Libya, ISIS Prepared to Build a Nation
Maria Abi-Habib
,
Wall Street Journal
Santos, the Nobel Prize, and Now What?
Carlos Alberto Montaner
,
RealClearWorld
Should Colombia's Santos Decline the Nobel Peace Prize?
Grandin
&
Leanza
,
Nation
Iceland's Revival
Philippe Descamps
,
Le Monde Diplomatique
Why South Africa's Universities Are Burning
Jay Naidoo
,
Daily Maverick
The Political Logic of Hard Brexit
Jacek Rostowski
,
Project Syndicate
Britain's Leaders Learned the Wrong Lessons After Brexit Vote
Neil Irwin
,
NY Times
The Continuing Danger of Semipalatinsk
Magdalena Stawkowski
, The
Bulletin
Does Canada Need More Privatized Health Care?
Charles Shaver
,
Vancouver Sun
Wednesday, October 12
Obama’s Wrong: The New Cold War's Only Just Begun
Michael Weiss
,
Daily Beast
U.S.-Russia Fallout Could Spell Disaster for Entire Mideast
Paul Saunders
,
ALM
Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup
Dexter Filkins
,
The New Yorker
The Slow, Violent Fall of Eastern Aleppo
Aron Lund
,
Century Foundation
Meet the New Boris: Britain's Future Prime Minister
Harry Mount
,
The Spectator
Venezuela in a Vise
Francisco Toro
,
New York Times
The Thin Line Between Europe’s Criminals and Militants
Rick Noack
,
Wash Post
Contesting Kashmir: History Has Lessons for India, Pakistan
Niaz Murtaza
,
Dawn
Geert Wilders’ Brain
Naomi O'Leary
,
Politico EU
Russia Considers Opening Military Base in Cuba
Franco Ordonez
,
McClatchy
Why Cambodia Is Pinning Its Hopes on China
Luke Hunt
,
South China Morning Post
Is America Really China’s Greatest Security Threat?
Bonnie Kristian
,
The Diplomat
Yemen: A Horror Show That Obama Used to Call a Success
Benny Avni
,
NY Post
For Canada, Humdrum Hillary Will Be Just Fine
Lawrence Martin
,
Globe and Mail
Donald Trump Is Not Benjamin Disraeli
Luke Phillips
,
The American Interest
Lviv, Ukraine's Tourist Gem Unearths Its Tragic Past
Dan Peleschuk
,
Al Jazeera
Thursday, October 13
The West's Decline Is of Its Own Making
Judy Dempsey
,
Carnegie Europe
America the Indispensable?
Edward Goldberg
,
RealClearWorld
The EU Faces Hamlet's Question
Alison Smale
,
New York Times
Brexit Means Whatever the EU Says It Means
Joris Luyendijk
,
Guardian
Europe's Trade Policy: Can a Phoenix Rise From the Ashes?
Sebastian Dullien
, RC
W
A Transition to Test Uzbekistan's Continuity
Stratfor
Federate the Free-Riders?
Brandon Christensen
,
Notes on Liberty
Fighting Zika and Gang Rules in El Salvador
Rachel Nolan
,
Harper's
Actions Speak Volumes for New Zealand-U.S. Relations
Tom Corben
,
The Diplomat
Britain's Politics Are a Freak Show Too
Fraser Nelson
,
Spectator
Palestine's Democratic Deficit
Grant Rumley
&
Mor Yahalom
,
Foreign Affairs
5 Things to Know About the New U.N. Leader
Michael Schroeder
,
Washington Post
The U.S. Can't Afford to Forget Its Wars
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
,
CNN
Beware the Walloons, Canada
Arthur Beesley
&
Jim Brunsden
,
Financial Times
My New Job Is to Build the Big Society
David Cameron
,
Telegraph
Friday, October 14
Globe's Liberals Must Recognize All Those They Left Behind
Timothy Ash
,
Guardian
The U.S. and Iran Set Course For a Battle at Sea
Micah Halpern
,
Observer
The Iran Paradox
James Stavridis
,
Time
Iran in the Atlantic
Michael Rubin
,
Commentary
Thailand Loses a King -- and America Loses a Partner
Walter Lohman
,
Nat'l Interest
Is Turkey Ditching Saudi Arabia for Iran?
Saeid Jafari
,
Al-Monitor
The U.S. Retaliates in Yemen
Jacob Shapiro
,
Geopolitical Futures
Berlin, 1945; Grozny, 2000; Aleppo, 2016
Michael Kimmelman
,
New York Times
'Take the Oil' Has a Long History as a Policy Proposal
Michael Klare
,
Foreign Policy
Walloons Torpedo EU Trade Policy
Hans Von Der Burchard
&
Christian Oliver
,
Politico EU
The Corleones of Kabul
Jonah Blank
,
Foreign Affairs
How Failures in Afghanistan Feed the U.S. Heroin Epidemic
Felipe Cruvinel
,
Ramen IR
Fall in Pound Shows Sovereignty’s Limits
Paola Subacchi
,
Chatham House
The Battle for Burundi: Another Genocide In The Making?
W. Baulch
,
Foreign Brief
Iran Is Stuck With China to Finance Its Oil Dreams
Marc Champion
,
Bloomberg
Saturday, October 15
America's Russia Policy Has Failed
Thomas Graham
&
Matthew Rojansky
,
Foreign Policy
Iran Is Happy to Fight to the Last Yemeni
Bruce Riedel
,
Al-Monitor
Britain Is Heading For the Biggest Crisis Since Suez
Matthew Parris
,
Times of London
A Westphalian Peace for the Middle East
Michael Axworthy
&
Patrick Milton
,
For. Affairs
The Norman Conquest Was a Disaster for England
Daniel Hannan
,
Telegraph
Russia-India Relationship Sours Over Pakistan
The American Interest
Thailand Looks With Worry at Its Likely New King
Alison Smale
&
Thomas Fuller
,
NYT
The Great Game Shifts to Balochistan?
Sunaina Kumar
&
Angela Stanzel
,
ECFR
U.S.-Russian Relations Hit Rock Bottom
Alexander Baunov
,
Moscow Times
Judges and Rice: Cambodia's Expanding Reliance on China
Luke Hunt
,
The Diplomat
Does Russia’s Literary Elite Think Dylan Deserves the Nobel?
A. Guzeva
,
RBTH
How Does Indonesia Engage a Hegemonic China?
Evan Laksmana
,
Jakarta Post
Christians Join the Battle for Mosul
Victor Gaetan
,
Washington Examiner
If They Really Wanted to Stop Syria's War, They'd Target Russia
Freedland
,
Guardian
RCEUROPE:
The Motives Behind Putin's Combativeness
Sunday, October 16
Why Moscow Has Gone War-Crazy
Joshua Yaffa
,
The New Yorker
Russia Saved Syria From Terrorist Takeover
Alexander Yakovenko
,
The Guardian
Hillary Clinton's War: Can a No-Fly Zone Over Syria Work?
Anshel Pfeffer
,
Haaretz
North Korea Is Scarier Than Ever
David Ignatius
,
Washington Post
In Somalia, Obama Escalates a Shadow War
Mazzetti
,
Gettleman
,
Schmitt
,
NY Times
Islamic State Has Good Reasons to Retreat in Iraq
Noah Feldman
,
Bloomberg View
Why Thousands of Iraqis Have Poured Into Syria to Aid Assad
Nabih Bulos
,
LAT
What Erdogan’s Pivot to Putin Means
Walter Russell Mead
,
The American Interest
Hollande’s Last, Lonely Months at the Elysee
Pierre Briancon
,
Politico EU
The Taliban Erase Western Gains in Afghanistan
Susanne Koelbl
,
Der Spiegel
Obama Moves to Make Cuba Policies "Irreversible"
Mimi Whitefield
,
Miami Herald
The Rise of Hateful Little England
Clive Irving
,
The Daily Beast
Globalization: An Election Issue Stuck in the Past
Doug Saunders
,
Globe and Mail
Hezbollah's Women Aren't Happy
Hanin Ghaddar
,
Tablet Magazine
The Education of Mikheil Saakashvili
Ian Bateson
,
Foreign Policy