Week of December 19, 2016 Archives

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Monday, December 19
Fall of Aleppo Is a Huge Gift to ISIS
Michael Weiss & Hassan Hassan, Daily Beast
What You're Seeing in Aleppo Is Propaganda
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
Lessons From a Dark Year in Syria
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View
Regrets on Russia, Syria, or Iran? Obama Has None
Anne Jolis, The Spectator
In Poland, a Window on What Happens When Populists Take Power
A. Faiola, WP
Japan’s Existential Crisis
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail
Britain Needs to Have a Serious Conversation About the NHS
Ian Birrell, FT
His Excellency, Sheikh Donald of the House of Trump
Elizabeth Dickinson, FP
How an Oil Man Might Run the State Department
Robin Mills, The National
The American Leader in the Islamic State
Graeme Wood, The Atlantic
Turkey and Iran’s Dangerous Collision Course
Ali Vaez, New York Times
Will Trump Trigger an Asian Pivot to China?
Bhavan Jaipragas, South China Morn. Post
A Murder in Kurdistan
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Huffington Post
Asia's Fight Over Fresh Water
Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
Catalan Separatists Defy Spain in Pursuit of "Utopia"
Guy Hedgecoe, Politico EU
Seven Reasons to Smile About Australia's Future
Jessica Irvine, Sydney Morning H'ld
Tuesday, December 20
Get Real About the Power of U.S. Adversaries
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The U.S.S.R. Fell -- and the World Fell Asleep
Garry Kasparov, Wall Street Journal
Assassinations Don't Cause Global Cataclysms
Josh Marshall, TPM
Turkey, Russia, and an Assassination
Max Fisher, New York Times
Unease in the Christmas Air in Germany
Scott Lehigh, Boston Globe
The 2016 Election Damaged U.S. Credibility Abroad
Ian Bremmer, National Interest
Trump Unifies the GOP Foreign Policy Establishment
Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post
Turkey Gripped By Terror
Barin Kayaoglu, Al-Monitor
Turkey Pays Dearly For Counterterror Purge
Michael Rubin, Amer. Enterprise Institute
Trump's Pick for Israel Ambassador Heralds Big Change
Aaron David Miller, FP
The Fatal Attraction of Authoritarianism
Michael Burleigh, Literary Review
A Very British Task -- Drawing Trump to NATO
Peter Ricketts, Guardian
Could Europe Fear Germany Again?
Adam Twardowski, Small Wars Journal
How America's New Top Cop Could Take On Iran Deal
Aaron Arnold, The Bulletin
The So-Called Trump Effect
Dominic Green, Weekly Standard
When Fake News Helped Take Out Enlightenment France
Robert Zaretsky, LA Times
The Middle East After the Fall of Aleppo
Nabeel Khoury, Cairo Review
Italy’s Best Hope: Berlusconi
Roberto D'Alimonte, Politico EU
Wednesday, December 21
Donald Trump’s Post-Cold War Vision of U.S. Foreign Policy
Uri Friedman, Atlantic
Germany Is Facing a Ticking Time Bomb of Rage
Ed West, Spectator
Germany's Nightmare, Merkel's Nightmare
Severin Weiland & Philipp Wittrock, Spiegel
Are the People Clueless?
Jason Brennan, New Statesman
John McCain Is Wrong About the Russia Hack
Doug Bandow, National Interest
Obama Still Defending His Underreactions
Max Boot, Commentary
China’s Anschluss in the South China Sea
Arthur Herman, National Review
In Defense of Nationalism
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
The Moral Importance of Plain Language
Robert Zaretsky, Houston Chronicle
Are Russian Hitmen Killing With Impunity in Turkey?
Murad Batal Shishani, BBC
If Brexit Means Liberation, Why Is It so Joyless?
Rafael Behr, Guardian
Democracy, in Retreat, May Have to Learn to Co-Exist
Robin Niblett, Chatham House
Ethiopia Should Skip Industrialization
Christopher Blattman & Stefan Dercon, Vox EU
In Home of St. Nick, Far From North Pole, All Is Not Jolly
Tim Arango, NY Times
VIDEO: Putin Sees Trump as "Plain, Weak, and Controllable"
CNN
Thursday, December 22
Berlin: From Inevitable Attack to Inevitable Backlash
James Kirchick, NY Daily News
Berlin and Merkel Will Survive This Attack, Too
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Violence in Mexico Surges
Kaitlin Lavinder, The Cipher Brief
How to Make Sense of 2016
Economist
The Trouble with Trump’s Dangerous Instincts on China
Jiayang Fan, New Yorker
Can Trump Defeat Jihad?
Aaron David Miller, CNN
Could Mikhail Gorbachev Have Saved the Soviet Union?
Chris Miller, Foreign Policy
Does Putin Even Need Trump's Help?
Joshua Keating, Slate
Is Britain Staging a Return to the Persian Gulf?
Paul Iddon, War Is Boring
Thirty Things You Didn't Know About the EU Referendum
Andrew Sparrow, Guardian
Romania Set for First Woman, and First Muslim, Prime Minister
Kit Gillet, NYT
Germany Wants Facebook To Pay For Fake News
Parmy Olson, Forbes
Another Egyptian Leader Fails to Protect Coptic Christians
Frederick Deknatel, WPR
Syria's Horror, Iran's Gain, Obama's Nonchalance
Clifford May, Washington Times
Are the Kremlin's Donbas Statelets About to Unite, or Fight?
Paul Goble, Jamestown
Friday, December 23
The Fall of Aleppo and Obama’s Shameful Legacy
Charles Krauthammer, Nat'l Review
Russia Is Mideast Kingmaker Now, But at What Cost?
Vladimir Frolov, Moscow Times
Illiberal Democracy Comes to Poland
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Poland, Banana Republic
Alex Berezow, National Interest
Ukraine to Europe: At the Very Least, Do No Harm
Francisco de Borja Lasheras, ECFR
Romania, Progressive Hope? Well, Maybe Not...
Carmen Paun, Politico EU
Could Donald Trump's Tweets Spark a Nuclear Arms Race?
Vann Newkirk, Atlantic
The Trends Say the World Continues to Get More Peaceful
Julia Belluz, Vox
Should you say Myanmar or Burma?
Economist
We Are Watching China Militarize the South China Sea
Amanda Macias, Bus. Insider
Saturday, December 24
The Russia Question
Niall Ferguson, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump and the Foreign Policy Pendulum
Robert Kaplan, National Interest
How the Christmas Market Terror Attack Has Changed Germany
Der Spiegel
U.S. Allows UN to Demand End to Israeli Settlements
Peter Beaumont, Guardian
Vote on Israel Could Spur Further Action -- Or Trouble for UN
Lederer, et al. AP
The U.S. Just Made Middle East Peace Harder
Elliott Abrams & Michael Singh, WaPo
Rhodes Defends Settlements Abstention, Friedman Signals Policy
M. Wilner, JPost
Trump, Promising Arms Race, Could Set World on Uncertain Path
Max Fisher, NYT
The Myth of a U.S.-Russian Global Agenda
Kirk Bennett, The American Interest
Abe Visit to Pearl Harbor to Send Powerful Message
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
Will Trump Strengthen Iran's Hand?
Dennis Ross, New York Daily News
The Mexican Cartels’ Christmas Slaughter
Andrea Noel, The Daily Beast
Was Snowden a Spy? We Still Don't Know
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Venezuelans Pour Into Colombia Seeking Medical Care
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Is Egypt's Sissi Losing Coptic Support?
Ahmed Hidji, Al-Monitor
It's Not Just Aleppo We've Murdered. It's Truth
Terry Glavin, National Post
The Oskar Schindler of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Mark Mann, Toronto Life
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