Week of December 26, 2016 Archives

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Monday, December 26
Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week
Berlin Attack a Stain on the Arab Spring's Success Story
Rory McCarthy, Telegraph
Stop Poking the Russian Bear
Robert Merry, The National Interest
Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin
Julia Ioffe, National Geographic
UN Vote on Settlements Can't Hide Palestinian Collapse
Walter Mead, American Int.
It's the Settlements, Stupid: UN Failure Is Netanyahu's Alone
Barak Ravid, Haaretz
Obama's Disgraceful and Harmful Legacy on Israel
William Kristol, Weekly Standard
UN Vote Exposes Israel's Liberal Facade
Joseph Dana, The National
The Soviet Union Is Gone, But It's Still Collapsing
Serhii Plokhy et al., Foreign Policy
The Christmas Coup That Ended the Cold War
Tom Switzer, Sydney Morning Herald
Poland’s Rising Leadership Position
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
Is Aung San Suu Kyi a Monster?
Jon Emont, The New Republic
Want to Understand Migrant Terrorists? Read Emma Goldman
Seth Frantzman, JP
Is Abe the Wrong Messenger for Pearl Harbor?
Jeff Kingston, Japan Times
How Putin Outplayed Abe in Japan
Liubomir Topaloff, The Diplomat
An Alliance to Worry the West
Cengiz Candar, New York Times
Why Venezuelan Women Are Getting Sterilized
Sofia Barbarani, Washington Post
Tuesday, December 27
And the Trade War Came
Paul Krugman, New York Times
What's New and Not New in UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
Sachs, Brookings
Obama's Parting Betrayal of Israel
John Bolton, Wall Street Journal
A New Year for Russia's Standoff With the West
Stratfor
Why Central Europe Fears a Putin-Trump Deal
Ulrich Speck, Elcano Royal Institute
Putin's Winning Streak Will Be Hard to Extend
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
How Arabic Translators Helped Greek Philosophy to Thrive
Peter Adamson, Aeon
How Vienna's Ideas Shaped the West
Economist
No More Strategic Patience: Trump Must Confront North Korea
Geoff Dyer, TNI
How Has Kim Jong Un Clung to Power?
Evans, Madden, Gause & Grisafi, NK News
Is Trump Serious About Nukes?
Luis Gomez, San Diego Union-Tribune
A Nuclear America Can Be a Great America
Michael Shellenberger, USA Today
Why Are Venezuela's Worthless Banknotes Vanishing?
Farid Kahhat, Worldcrunch
Iran's Oddly Selective Crackdown on Christians
Christopher Dickey, Daily Beast
Why I'm Optimistic About 2017
Paul Mason, Guardian
Taiwan Meeting Would Be a Real Asia Pivot
Harry Kazianis, Washington Times
Wednesday, December 28
Obama Despises Israel Because He Despises the West
Ben Shapiro, National Review
A Meaningless UN Security Council Resolution
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Is Trump's Appointment of Navarro Some Kind of Joke?
George Koo, Asia Times
Vladimir Putin May Have Done Us a Big Favor
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Obama Fulfills His Prophecy on Israeli Settlements
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Montenegro's NATO Bid: A Litmus Test for Trump
E. Joseph & S. Vukovic, For. Affairs
Britain and the EU Have Become Slaves to Defunct Thinking
Mark Leonard, Pro. Syn.
Obama's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation
Dan Restrepo & Michael Fuchs, RealClearWorld
Abe's Visit to Pearl Harbor Is Smart Politics
Michael Auslin, Wall Street Journal
Is China's Economy Past the Point of No Return?
Gordon Chang, National Interest
5 North Korea Scenarios
Victor Cha, JoongAng Daily
What Does a Good, 21st Century Immigration Policy Look Like?
Rowan Williams, NS
Choosing to Renounce a Mother Tongue
Yiyun Li, New Yorker
Will Trump Break the Special Forces?
Sean Naylor, The Atlantic
Putin Already Playing Nuclear Poker With Trump
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Where Will the U.S. Go on South Asia?
Moeed Yusuf, Dawn
Petrified Unity in Terror-Struck Berlin
Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
Thursday, December 29
Obama Takes Retaliatory Measures Against Russia
T. Abdollah & J. Lederman, AP
Kissinger's Ukraine Formula Is Way Off
Mykola Kapitonenko, Kyiv Post
A Flashback to My Soviet Childhood
Lev Golinkin, New York Times
Trains, Planes, Trucks, and Terror
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
It's Not the Settlements, Stupid
Rick Richman, Commentary
Kerry's Israel Speech Would Have Been Great, Years Ago
Alex Shepard, New Republic
Bibi, Trump, and Putin Are Yesterday's Men
David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy
9 Questions About the UN Vote on Israeli Settlements
Jennifer Williams, Vox
Fateful Political Year for Europe Starts in Brussels
Florian Eder, Politico EU
Why British Columbians Are Dying From Fentanyl
Conor King, Vancouver Sun
Vancouver's Sudden Fentanyl Epidemic
Travis Lupick, The Walrus
Iran, Russia Want to Encircle the US in Afghanistan
Atta Nasib, The Diplomat
Afghanistan, India, and Trump
Rakesh Sood, The Hindu
A Simpler Life: The Hutterites of Southern Alberta
Camilla MacPherson, Nowhere Mag
South Africa Needs Another Leap Forward on Race Relations
Y. Diko, Daily Maverick
What Went Wrong? A Withering West
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera
Don't Write Off Democracy
John Lloyd, Reuters
Friday, December 30
An Oilman's Guide to Foreign Affairs
Matthew Bey, Stratfor
We're Living Through the First World Cyberwar
Martin Belam, Guardian
What China Wants in South Sudan: More Than Just Oil
Aly Verjee, Lowy Interpreter
Can Britain's Monarchy Survive Without the Queen?
John Lloyd, Reuters
Newsflash: Russia Is Not the Soviet Union
Doug Bandow, National Interest
The Perils of Russophobia
Patrick Lawrence, The Nation
Eyes on the Kremlin: Russia and the World in 2016
Fritz Lodge, The Cipher Brief
Bibi Makes Trump His Chump
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Kerry Takes a Parting Shot at Israel in Middle East Speech
J. Phillips, Daily Signal
Quantifying John Kerry's Damnable Diplomatic Tenure
Michael Rubin, AEI
Obama Leaves Scorched Earth in Middle East
Haim Shine, Israel Hayom
How Trump Can Stop Erdogan from Playing the United States
Tom Rogan, NRO
2017: Europe's Year of Rage
James Forsyth, Spectator
Kremlin Wrestles With Russia's Revolutionary History
Eva Hartog, Moscow Times
Finding a Serbian Thread in the Silk Road
Srdjan Garcevic, Balkan Insight
Saturday, December 31
2016: The Year That Putin Won
Maxim Trudolyubov, Moscow Times
Is Russia Really "Winning"?
Emma Ashford, The National Interest
The Most Powerful Men in the World
Masha Gessen, New York Review of Books
Something About This Russia Story Stinks
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Will 2017 Sink Liberal Democracies?
Jorge Valero, Euractiv
Why Netanyahu Will Miss Obama
Philip Gordon, New York Times
Syria Will Stain Obama's Legacy Forever
David Greenberg, Foreign Policy
Cease-Fire Shifts Balance of Power to Assad in Syria
Patrick Cockburn, Independent
Trump Could Be Israel's Worst Nightmare
Gregg Carlstrom, Politico Magazine
The UN Vote Mocks the Law
Evelyn Gordon, Commentary
The World Finally Calls Israel's Bluff on the Peace Process
Tony Karon, Quartz
Ten Elections to Watch in 2017
James Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations
Will ExxonMobil Dictate Venezuela Policy at State?
Timothy Gill, Monkey Cage
Bahrain Shifts Foreign Policy With Eye on Turkey
Giorgio Cafiero, Al-Monitor
Optimism in Australia's Defense Industry
Helen Clark, The Diplomat
The History Book That Informed Merkel's Worldview
Philip Oltermann, The Guardian
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