Week of July 17, 2017 Archives

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Monday, July 17
Did Liu Xiaobo Die for Nothing?
Minxin Pei, Project Syndicate
Downfall of Chinese Rising Star Points to Xi Power Play
T. Shi & K. Zhai, Bloomberg
Emmanuel Macron's Dangerous, High-Stakes Gamble
Jonathan Eyal, Straits Times
How Cuba Runs Venezuela
Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal
The Profound Ideological Clash at the Heart of Gulf Crisis
Hussein Ibish, National
UAE Reportedly Orchestrated Hack of Qatari Govt Sites
DeYoung & Nakashima, WP
A Deceptive Calm in the South China Sea
Benoit Hardy-Chartrand, Japan Times
Round 1: Brexit Talks Start With 20 Months to Go
Alastair Macdonald, Reuters
Jacob Rees-Mogg Is Finally Having His Moment
Will Collier, National Review
Beijing’s Balkan Backdoor
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Making Peace With Assad’s State of Barbarism
Kim Ghattas, Foreign Policy
Trump's Gift to Putin in the Mideast
Vali Nasr, New York Times
There’s No Need to Envy Germany’s Trade Surplus
Ben Chu, The Independent
The Most Powerful Woman in Brussels
Xan Rice, New Statesman
Moise Katumbi, DR Congo’s Would-Be President
James Wan, African Arguments
The Uncertain Fate of Iraq's Largest Christian City
Katrin Kuntz, Der Spiegel
Tuesday, July 18
The Decline of Hong Kong and the Future of Asian Liberalism
K. Hall & N. Gray, RCW
Tehran Can Abandon Nuclear Deal
Mohammad Javad Zarif, National Interest
Volatility in Russian Agriculture
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
Ukraine In NATO? A Terrible Idea That Only Gets Worse
Doug Bandow, Forbes
EU and Ukraine -- Close But Not That Close
David Stern, Politico EU
The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism
James Robertson, Jacobin
The Market Doesn't Corrupt Morals -- Socialism Does
Ryan Bourne, CapX
Why China's Dog Meat Market Has Expanded
Economist
Jokowi's Bungled Ban of Hizbut Tahrir
Gregory Fealy, Lowy Interpreter
The Gulf Crisis Might Be Based on a Hoax
Joshua Keating, Slate
Tanzania's Magufuli: Taking on the Miners?
Dan Paget, African Arguments
A One-Two Punch to the Rule of Law in Poland
Andrzej Mendel-Nykorowycz, ECFR
Why Does Iraqi Kurdistan Want an Independence Referendum?
N. Shukri, J-Post
From Climate Change to Iran, How Obama Boxed In Trump
R. Gowan, WP Review
Not All Foreign-Influence Scandals Are Created Equal
John Fund, National Review
China and India: Danger at Dolam
M. Taylor Fravel, Indian Express
Defining Victory Down to Defeat
Frederic Hof, Atlantic Council
Is It Racist to Say Africa Has ‘Civilizational’ Problems?
Remi Adekoya, Foreign Policy
Wednesday, July 19
The Trump Presidency, 6 Months In
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Competence and Consequences in Foreign Policy
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
French Class: Macron Embraces Trump
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Macron the Master Juggler Positions France as Trump's Great Ally
J. Vinocur, WSJ
What's Driving the India-China Standoff at Doklam?
Ankit Panda, The Diplomat
China's Railway Diplomacy Hits the Buffers
James Kynge, Michael Peel & Ben Bland, FT
North Korea 'As It Is'
Bae Myung-bok, JoongAng Daily
Stop Tolerating Chechnya's Intolerable Kadyrov
Tanya Lokshina, Moscow Times
Marawi: A Safe Haven for ISIS in the Philippines?
M. Hamza Iftikhar, Raddington Report
Growing Up as an Untouchable
Sujatha Gidla, LitHub
Kenya's Billion-Dollar Election
Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz
Talleyrand Holds the Key to Untangling Brexit Mess
George Trefgarne, CapX
Britain Has Put a Schoolboy in Charge of the Moon Landings
Rafael Behr, Guardian
Poland's Constitutional Crisis
R. Daniel Kelemen, Foreign Affairs
U.S. Defense Spending and False Comparisons
Jim Talent, National Review
On Iran, Trump Is Obama 2.0
Reuel Marc Gerecht, New York Times
Thursday, July 20
High Noon in the Himalayas: Behind the China-India Standoff
Jeff Smith, WOTR
America Literally Can't Afford More Military Adventurism
Doug Bandow, Nat'l Interest
The Russians Are Coming: Army's Case For Modernization
S. Freedberg Jr., B-Def
Making the Most of Special Operations Forces
Mark Moyar, CSIS
The Air Force Faces the Future
George Will, National Review
Russia Uses Its Illusion
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
European Arms Markets Heat Up
Elisabeth Braw, The American Interest
What to Expect From U.S.-China Economic Dialogue
D. Dollar & R. Hass, Brookings
The Pushback Against Macron Begins
Nicholas Vinocur, Politico EU
7 Charts on How the Developed World Lost Its Edge
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Compliant But Dangerous Iran
Patrick Meehan, Washington Times
Can a Grand Theory Make Sense of Today's World?
Judah Grunstein, World Pol. Review
Stop Fretting, Canada -- NAFTA Is Safe
Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
How Civil Society in Europe Can Defend Itself
Alberto Alemanno, Bloomberg View
Venezuela On The Brink, Lessons From Castro And ​Perón
William Ospina, Espectador
Kosovo Soccer: Bringing Back the Golden Age
Hoi Mun Yee, K2.0
Friday, July 21
The Demo Version of a Future Large-Scale Cyberwar
Daniil Turovsky, Meduza
The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn't Working
Timothy Stafford, National Interest
Are America's Overseas Commitments Worth It?
Doug Irving, RAND
Alliances Are More Than Balance Sheets
Jacob Parakilas, Newsweek
Dear Leavebugs, It's Time to Admit Your Mistake
Matthew Parris, Spectator
The Myth of ISIS's Strategic Brilliance
Aymenn al-Tamimi, The Atlantic
Qatar Owns More Property in London Than the Queen of England
Amrank
Poland's Government Takes Control of the Courts
Economist
The Women Who Married Into ISIS Are Now Filled With Regret
B Daragahi, BuzzFeed
How Cronyism Emerged the Victor From the Cold War
Sami Karam, Foreign Affairs
Canadian Envoy: Let Trump Declare Victory and We Can All Win
Daniel Dale, T-Star
Europe Remains Blind Because It Doesn't Want to See
Melanie Phillips, Jer. Post
Democracy Without Civil Society Is Empty
Neera Chandhoke, The Hindu
A Thousand Cuts: The Curious Death of Ukraine
Neil Thompson, Raddington Report
Industry and Start-Ups Drive a Slow Growth in Italy's South
N. Picchio, Il Sole 24 Ore
ICYMI: China’s Economic Reforms Have Hit a Wall
Scott Kennedy, RealClearWorld
VIDEO: The World Is Running Out of Sand
Economist
Saturday, July 22
Trump's Foreign Policy: The Conservatives' Report Card
Bret Stephens, NY Times
Is Trump Bad News for Putin?
Mark Galeotti, The Atlantic
Dear God, Not Again
Jack Khoury & Gili Cohen, Haaretz
Palestinian Rage Explodes
Ilan Ben Zion, Forward
The Sunni Arab Crisis of Leadership
Kamran Bokhari, Geopolitical Futures
What Poland's 'July Coup' Could Mean For the Judiciary
Paulina Pacula, EU Observer
European Disunion
Yascha Mounk, New Republic
The Complexities of Russian Ethnic Nationalism in the Republics
Paul Goble, WOE
When This Part Is Over -- U.S. After Russia Investigation
J. Cassidy, Just Security
Colombia’s New Cocaine Problem
Ben Grenrock, Roads & Kingdoms
An Independent Kurdistan Would Begin With a Clash
Paul Iddon, War Is Boring
Putin Sending 100K Troops to Baltic Border for Drills?
Tucker Reals, CBS News
Kosovo's Insurgent Party That So Worries The West
Adian Hehir, The Conversation
Sunday, July 23
The Middle East’s Next War
Joschka Fischer, Project Syndicate
How Kaczynski Is Driving Poland Away From Europe
Jan Puhl, Der Spiegel
Poland Sets Stage for EU Standoff
Noah Buyon, Foreign Policy
What Truman Can Teach Trump
Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal
Next Israel-Hezbollah Confrontation Could Be in Syria
Mona Alami, Al-Monitor
Trump’s 'Axis of Adults' Is Breaking Apart
Eli Lake, Bloomberg
Angela Merkel’s Turkish Roulette
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
One by One, Marry-Your-Rapist Laws Are Falling in Mideast
Somini Sengupta, NYT
Rwanda and the Dangers of Democracy
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
High Stakes for U.S. Navy as It Wages War on ISIS
Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal
Kathleen Wynne Rises From the Dead
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
Ontario Getting Back Into the Coal-Power Business
David Reevely, National Post
Kenya’s Upcoming Elections Should Worry the World
Patrick Gathara, Wash Post
Why Venezuela Politics Matter to Miami’s Lawmakers
Mazzei & Daugherty, Miami Hld
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