Week of October 24, 2016 Archives

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Monday, October 24
Britain and the Fate of the Europe We Know
Luis Simon, War on the Rocks
Why EU Would Be Mad to Start a Trade War With Britain
Ross Clark, Spectator
A Precarious Alliance Takes on Islamic State
Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
Who Will Rule Iraq's Nineveh Province After ISIS?
Hassan Mneimneh, RCWorld
America Is Turning Iran Into a World Power
Alon Ben-David, Jerusalem Post
World Media Shudders for Aleppo, Shrugs for Mosul
Pat Cockburn, Independent
Sweden's Tough Lesson on Child Migrants
Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
Africa Wasn’t "Rising" Before and It’s Not “Reeling” Now
Lily Kuo, Quartz
The Walloon That Roared: Federalism’s New Fragility
Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
What Julian Assange Wants
James Ball, BuzzFeed
Guess What, Duterte: America Doesn't Need You
Doug Bandow, Japan Times
Why Is the Islamic World Still Torn By War?
Scott Gilmore, Boston Globe
Scottish Independence: Here We Go Again
Brian Monteith, The Scotsman
How Ataturk Became a Model for Erdogan
Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Don't Blame NATO for Libya
Christopher Fettweis, The National Interest
Iceland, Land of Vikings, Braces for Pirate Party Takeover
Griff Witte, Wash Post
Tuesday, October 25
The Myth of Putin
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Putin in Berlin
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Putin's Strategic Aim Is to Fracture the West
Rizzo & Twardowski, Small Wars Journal
From French Soldier to ISIS Spymaster
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
Europe’s Traditional Left Is in a Death Spiral
Sheri Berman, Washington Post
Does America Need an Enemy?
Dominic Tierney, National Interest
America's Strange Search for a Decisive Battle
J. Russell & D. Abenheim, LobeLog
Let Duterte Pivot. America Can Be Patient
Economist
Shakeup in the South China Sea
Rob Cullum, Foreign Brief
Brexit Could Pull the Pin Out of the EU Grenade
Asa Bennett, Telegraph
Brits Start to Count the Costs of Brexit
Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg View
Czechia? Czech Republic's New Name Fails to Catch On
Robert Tait, Guardian
Weird Political Parties Are Having a Big Moment in Europe
Joshua Keating, Slate
Notes From Guinea-Bissau, the Forgotten State
A. Loewenstein, African Arguments
Cuba, Iran's Island in the Sun
Emanuele Ottolenghi, The Hill
Wednesday, October 26
Why the Middle East Knows the U.S. Can't Be Trusted
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Russia's War Card
Michael Khodarkovsky, New York Times
Bring Power Back to U.S. Foreign Policy
Robert Lieber, World Affairs Journal
Let's Talk About Great Power Competition with China
Van Jackson, War on the Rocks
Theresa May’s Nasty Britain
Mark Leonard, Project Syndicate
The Internet's Original Sin Could Destroy It
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Was This Russian Hacking, Really? Anyone Could Have Done It
R. Diamond, USA T.
Beyond the Model T Web
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
When Does Hacking Become Russian Disinformation?
David Wise, Reuters
Central Europe Does Not Need Saving
Jakub Eberle & Benjamin Tallis, Politico EU
The Election That Killed Foreign Policy
Paul Pillar, National Interest
The Radical Farmers Who Stormed to Victory in Lithuania
Josh Lowe, Newsweek
Philippines' Duterte Leaves U.S. Policymakers "Baffled"
Will Edwards, The Cipher Brief
When You Share A Hometown With Adolf Hitler
Tanja Hofbauer, Worldcrunch
Is the U.S. Navy a Sitting Duck?
James Holmes, Foreign Policy
Thursday, October 27
Rodrigo Duterte, Ultimate Realist?
Harry Kazianis, RealClearWorld
Russia Falls Into Old Habits
Lauren Goodrich, Stratfor
Is Japan Trying to Contain China?
Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest
Data Show Strong UK Growth After Brexit. Who'd Have Thunk It?
Nelson, Spectator
Lessons From Tiny Wallonia
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
The Middle East: Where Policy and Culture Collide
Steven Cook, The Atlantic
Is Manila Moving in a Different Direction?
Joshua Kurlantzick, The Cipher Brief
ISIS Sent Four Car Bombs. The Last One Hit Me.
Bryan Denton, New York Times
Venezuela Is No Democracy, But Is It a Dictatorship?
Ronal Rodriguez, Worldcrunch
Combat Vet: What Does It Mean to Say Iraq Was a Mistake?
M. Brough, USA Today
Russia Unveils Image of Fearsome New ICBM
Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
Brazil's Generation of Discontent
Catherine Osborn, Foreign Affairs
China Can Resist a Crash But Can't Prevent One
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
A Diplomatic Reality Check on U.S. Expectations in Iraq
Mietek Boduszynski, The Hill
The Calais Jungle Is a Disgrace
Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
Will the U.S. and Iran Cooperate on Science?
Ariane Tabatabai, The Bulletin
Friday, October 28
A Showdown Looms in Venezuela
Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
Is Obama Preparing a Parting Shot at Israel?
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Shinzo Abe's Risky Game With Russia
Jiro Yamaguchi, Japan Times
The Deutsche Bank Downfall
Ullrich Fichtner, Hauke Goos & Martin Hesse, Spiegel
Upgrading America's Nuclear Arsenal
New York Times
Thailand After King Bhumibol
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, East Asia Forum
The Secret Language of George Soros
David Mikics, Tablet Magazine
Britain's Hobbesian Home Office Rules
William Davies, London Review of Books
Will Central Asia Fight Over Water?
Rustam Qobil, BBC
What on Earth Should We Do About Russia?
Charles Crawford, Telegraph
Canada's Willy Wonka
Andrew Mitrovica, Al Jazeera
Clinton Eyes Biden for Secretary of State
Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
Women Are Driving Ukraine's Reform
Ilya Lozovsky, Foreign Policy
U.S. Doesn’t Know Who Will Attack ISIS HQ
Nancy Yousseff, Daily Beast
How to Deal With Russia?
L. Todd Wood, Washington Times
Saturday, October 29
Why is Trump Suddenly Talking About World War III?
Anne Applebaum, Wash. Post
Obama Repeats Eisenhower's Mistakes in the Middle East
Michael Doran, LA Times
Wallonia Took a Heroic Stand for Democracy
Cecilia Olivet, EU Observer
"I Live in a Lie": Saudi Women Speak Up
Mona El-Naggar, New York Times
A Real Review of U.S. Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia
Richard Sokolsky, WOTR
The State of Post-ISIS Iraq Is Grim
D. Gartenstein-Ross & S. Jensen, The Cipher Brief
Israel's Next Leap Forward
Yosef Abramowitz, Jerusalem Post
The Darker Side of Thai Royalism
James Buchanan, The Diplomat
A Transatlantic Approach to Russia in 2017?
John Deni, Carnegie Europe
China No Longer Has a Taiwan Strategy
J. Michael Cole, National Interest
The Failure of the West's 'China Fantasy'
Democracy Digest
After Quetta, Modi Must Turn Statesmanship to Pakistan
M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia-T
The World Is Out of Weapons
Satyajit Das, Bloomberg View
Can Venezuela Find Order From Chaos?
Harold Trinkunas, Brookings Institution
Businesses Chip Away at Sanctions in Crimea and Donbas
Kateryna Boguslavska, CH
Sunday, October 30
America's Culture War Heads Overseas
Andrew Bacevich, Boston Globe
Bungle in France's Refugee Jungle
Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
Trudeau and the Millennials: The Love-In Won’t Last
Margaret Wente, Globe & Mail
Putin's Bid to Seduce, Subvert Western Democracies
Dickey & Zaleski, Daily Beast
U.S.-Philippine Alliance Is Stronger Than You Think
Greg Poling, War on the Rocks
When Mosul falls, Will ISIS Head to Asia?
Bhavan Jaipragas, South China Morn. Post
Le Pen Won’t Be President This Time. She’s Still Winning.
Jon Fenby, Spectator
As Maduro Digs In, Venezuelans Turn to Protests, Congress
Jim Wyss, Miami Hld
Turkey's New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire
Nick Danforth, For. Policy
Iran's Reformists Have No Alternative to Rouhani
Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor
In Yemen It's a Clash of Personalities, Not Proxies
Laura Kasinof, Slate
What the Hungarian Revolution Accomplished 60 Years Ago
John O'Sullivan, NRO
Fire, Film, Tweet: The Taliban’s New Way of War
Mujib Mashal, New York Times
China in Mideast: Non-Intervention vs. Economics
Romaniuk & Burgers, Japan Today
The Battle of the Bulge: Many of Canada’s Troops Are Fat
Alan Freeman, Wash Post
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