Week of December 5, 2016 Archives

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Monday, December 5
Can Trump Keep His Middle East Promises?
Aaron David Miller & Richard Sokolsky, RCW
Japan's Leader to Visit Pearl Harbor
Jonathan Soble, New York Times
Italy's Renzi Routed
Giulia Paravicini & Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico EU
Technocrats to the Rescue in Italy?
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Europe Relieved as Far Right Falls Short in Austria
Euractiv
Sorry, Liberals, Austria Is No Triumph
Matthew Goodwin, Telegraph
Why Raul Castro Is Happy Fidel Is Gone
Brian Latell, Politico Magazine
Michael Flynn’s Warped Worldview and Iran
Daniel Larison, American Conservative
Worry Not: US-Japan Alliance Is Safe in Trump’s Hands
Harry Kazianis, Asia Times
Trump Calls, China (Strategically) Shrugs
David Wertime, Foreign Policy
How China Is Weaning Africa Off of Hand-Me-Downs
Lily Kuo, Quartz
How Facebook Hurt the Syrian Revolution
Riham Alkousaa, Al Jazeera
OPEC Cuts and the Illusive Power of the Deal
Peter Kaznacheev, Moscow Times
Two Movies China Desperately Wants to Hide
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Brexit On Trial
Joshua Rozenberg, The Spectator
South Korea Is a Good Place to Start Taking on the "Blob"
Doug Bandow, TNI
Wave of Populism Is Sweeping Over the Continent
John O'Sullivan, National Review
Tuesday, December 6
Goodbye to the West
Joschka Fischer, Project Syndicate
Italy's Threat to Europe's Future
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
New Zealand’s Popular Prime Minister Bows Out
Economist
Why Did New Zealand's PM Step Down? 20 Key Reads
Bryce Edwards, NZ Herald
Trudeau's Pipeline Blues Are of His Own Making
Andrew Coyne, National Post
Saudi-Egypt Crisis Worries Israel
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Putting China on the Defensive
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
China Really Isn't Joking About Taiwan
James Palmer, Foreign Policy
Yet Another Stupid Referendum
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
The Italian Referendum: No Trump Nor Brexit
Erik Jones, The Conversation
What Italy’s Referendum Vote Means
Daniel Kochis, Daily Signal
Matteo Renzi, From Demolition Man to Demolished
Giulia Paravicini, Politico EU
Indian Prime Minister's Shake Down of Private Wealth
Shikha Dalmia, Reason
Preserving the Memory of Stalin’s Repressions
Izabella Tabarovsky, The Russia File
Russia’s Energy Influence Dropping
Balazs Jarabik, The Cipher Brief
Wednesday, December 7
Say No to Russia Reset Part Deux
Daniel Vajdich, RealClearWorld
Why Japan Failed at Pearl Harbor
James Holmes, National Interest
Pearl Harbor Was a Sneak Attack But Not a Surprise
Paul De Vries, Japan Times
China Puts the Squeeze on Taiwan
Stratfor
The Taiwan Blunder vs. the Opening to Cuba
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
More Perils Lie in Wait For the Eurozone
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
A Thatcher For France to Fend Off Far Right?
Economist
The City Getting Rich From Fake News
Emma Jane Kirby, BBC
Fake News Did Not Influence the U.S. Election
George Friedman, Mauldin Economics
Trump Flunks His First Foreign Policy Test
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Why Did Renzi's Referendum Fail?
Ezio Mauro, Eurotopics
How Theresa May Plans to Trap Her Opponents on Brexit
G. Eaton, New Statesman
The UK Needs a New Act of Union
Kezia Dugdale, Guardian
What Is It About British Generals and Bird Watching?
Thomas Ricks, Foreign Policy
Traditional Diplomacy Is Under a Lot of Stress
Ellen Laipson, World Politics Review
Thursday, December 8
Renzi Stopped at Eboli
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Has China's Moment to Lead Arrived?
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Trump's Chance to Transform Cuba
Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Russia Expects a Taste of Its Own Cyber Medicine
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Burying the Architecture of Skopje, Macedonia's Modernist Marvel
B Blazhevski, BI
In the Philippines: 'They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals'
Daniel Berehulak, NYT
How Theresa May Can Limit the Brexit Damage
Charles Grant, Guardian
How to Salvage Syria
Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan, Daily Beast
Can Mexico Cope With Trump?
Robert Looney, Foreign Policy
Inside the Battle for Mosul
Bernard-Henri Levy, Wall Street Journal
The Kurds: Not Quite a Nation
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
The Unbearable Sadness of Being Taiwan
Isabella Steger, Quartz
A Dark Age for European Democracy?
R. Daniel Kelemen, Foreign Affairs
The Mystery of Kent's Disappearing Polish Shops
Patrick West, Spectator
The Reality of Liberland, Libertarian Utopia
Morgan Childs, GQ
Friday, December 9
How Trump Could Finally Win the War on Terror
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
What Trump, and His Opponents, Could Learn From Berlusconi
G. Riotta, Politico EU
The Indefensible Plan for a Pan-European Military Force
Herbert London, Observer
Trump’s Plans for European Missile Defense a Mystery
Rachel Oswald, Bulletin
The Rebels of Aleppo Are no Heroes
Robert Fisk, Independent
Merkel’s About-Face
Bruce Bawer, City Journal
Vietnam Continues Buildup in South China Sea
Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Finding a True Course in the Middle East
Daniel Pipes, Boston Globe
Castro’s Death: The Perfect Metaphor of Communism’s Demise
J.T. Young, Am. Sp.
Poland after a Year of Populist Rule
Ralf Hoppe & Jan Puhl, Der Spiegel
Joe Biden's Seinfeldian Trip About Nothing to Ottawa
John Ivison, National Post
Canada, Justin Trudeau Is Just Not That Into You
Anne Kingston, Maclean's
Remembering How Ireland's Economy Came to Fluorish
Alan Ahearne, Irish Times
Trump Is Playing a Risky Game With China and Russia
Edward Goldberg, The Hill
My Hunting Trip With Yeltsin Killed Off the Soviet Union
Alec Luhn, Guardian
Saturday, December 10
Kaliningrad and the Escalatory Spiral in the Baltics
Andrew Michta, Carnegie Europe
The Centenary of the Russian Revolution Should Be Mourned
Max Hastings, Spec.
Taiwan, Trump and a Telephone
Rodger Baker, Stratfor
Fighting With America
James Curran, Lowy Interpreter
The Timid Giant: The Drift of U.S. Foreign Policy Under Obama
A. Evans, Strife Blog
Will New Fatah Leaders' Fluency in Hebrew Make a Difference?
D. Kuttab, Al-Monitor
Netherlands' Wilders: Rarely Has a Convict Been So Pleased
Nadette De Visser, DB
'Populism,' the New Sneer of the Elite
Douglas Murray, Daily Mail
South Korea's Crisis Could Become Regional
Michael Auslin, AEIdeas
Can Europe's Last Blairite Win?
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
MEPs: Brexit Should Help the EU Simplify
Harry Cooper, Politico EU
Remembering a Cuban Immigrant Whom Castro Sadly Outlived
Thomas Hill, RCM
Turkey's Crackdown Curiously Spares the Literary World
Rod Nordland, NY Times
What Does the Bloodshed in Rakhine State Tell Us?
Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR
Mexico and China Are Very Different Trading Partners
Justin Fox, Bloomberg View
Sunday, December 11
Let’s Get the Facts on Foreign Involvement in Our Elections
Michael McFaul, WaPo
Is a Fight Brewing Over Russia Policy?
Dan De Luce, Foreign Policy
How Trump Can Make American Intel Great Again
Fred Fleitz, National Review
Europe's Shattered Dream of Order
Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs
Why the World Should Fear a 'Thucydidean' China
James Holmes, National Interest
Albania: Under The Yoke Of Rising Oligarchs
Peter Tase, Eurasia Review
Should Americans Worry About Trump's Generals?
Aaron Miller, CNN
Trump's Military Picks: Another Pointless Media Furore
Wall Street Journal
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