Week of August 6, 2012 Archives

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Monday, August 6
Afghanistan's Long Shadow over Syria
Shashank Joshi, Daily Telegraph
Why Kofi Annan Quit the Syria Mission
Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
Risks of Inaction in Syria
Sens. McCain, Lieberman & Graham, Wash Post
Why Israel Is Economically Advanced
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
What Is Romney's China Policy?
David Shambaugh, China-U.S. Focus
Race for Arctic Mostly Rhetoric
Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg Free Press
Mario Draghi Cannot Save the Euro
Simon Johnson, Bloomberg
Syria's Ancient Treasures Pulverized
Robert Fisk, The Independent
How Kurds Changed Turkey's Syria Calculations
Pelin Turgut, Time
Don't Believe Obama's Israel Reversal
Arthur Herman, New York Post
Chile Still a Model for Latin America
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Oil Pipeline Politics to Dominate Canada
Kelly McParland, National Post
Taiwanese Mobocracy in the Making?
Joe Hung, China Post
Jamaica at 50: More Than Marley & Usain Bolt
Lindsay Johns, Daily Mail
U.S. Drought Will Hit Global Food Prices
Heather Mallick, Toronto Star
Tuesday, August 7
A Global Backlash Against the Rich
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Will U.S. Surrender the South China Sea?
Peter Brookes, Boston Herald
Is Saudi Arabia on the Edge?
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Russia after Putin
David Satter, National Review
Militants Find a Home in Sinai Peninsula
Jeffrey Fleishman, LA Times
What Did the Arab Spring Change?
Adam Garfinkle, American Interest
In Egypt, Anti-Semitism Is Back in Fashion
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Europe's North-South Split
Mario Monti, Der Spiegel
Blackout Just the Beginning in India
Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
India Must Veto Syria Intervention
Prem Shankar Jha, The Hindu
Syria: Who's Going to Jump Next?
Amir Taheri, New York Post
Arab Spring in the UAE?
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, openDemocracy
Oil and Democracy in Libya
Peter Fragiskatos, Ottawa Citizen
Nick Clegg Must Go
Tom Clark, The Guardian
China's Central Asia Balancing Act
J. Berkshire Miller, The Diplomat
Wednesday, August 8
Iran's Big Crisis: The Price of Chicken
Meir Javedanfar, Bloomberg
Syria Proxy War May Rip Apart Mideast
Seumas Milne, The Guardian
Syrian Rebels Feel Abandoned, Betrayed by U.S.
Liz Sly, Washington Post
Britain's Cherished, Lousy Health Service
Theodore Dalrymple, LA Times
Right-Wing Terror as Deadly as al-Qaeda?
Bergen & Rowland, CNN
Charles Krauthammer Is Wrong About Europe
Sean Kay, Foreign Policy
Obama Abandons Eastern Europe
Michal Kuz, National Review
Washington's Myopic View of Egypt
Barak Barfi, New York Times
Egypt Proves Security Trumps Jihadism
Michael Burleigh, Daily Mail
China on Wrong Side in Syria Fight
Frank Ching, China Post
Putin's Karate Chop to Russian Liberties
Lucian Kim, CS Monitor
Canada Must Master U.S. Politics
Gotlieb, Kergin & Robertson, Globe & Mail
The Dutch Paradox
Adriaan Schout & Jan Marinus Wiersma, ECFR
Israel's Pork Problem
Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Slate
Could the Venetian Model Work for Italy?
Alexander Jung, Der Spiegel
Thursday, August 9
Why China's Rise May Have Already Peaked
Minxin Pei, The Diplomat
As the Sinai Goes, So Goes the Golan Heights?
Tony Karon, Time
The Hunger Wars in Our Future
Michael Klare, Guernica
Sectarianism Breeding a Muslim Cold War
Ibrahim Kalin, Today's Zaman
Arab Spring? Try Christian Winter
William Dalrymple, The Australian
A Call to Arm Syria's Rebels
Malcolm Rifkind, New York Times
The Right Way to Help Syria's Rebels
Dalia & David Kaye, LA Times
How the U.S. Can Stabilize the Mideast
Barry Naughten, The Conversation
Air Strikes Won't Solve Sinai Problem
Fawaz Gerges, The Guardian
Scandinavia and the Jews
Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
Betrayed Russia Won't Help West
Pascal Boniface, Le Nouvel Observateur
Corruption Not Slowing Russia
Boris Kagarlitsky, Moscow Times
The Olympics and the Wrong Side of History
George Jonas, Ottawa Citizen
India's Dark Night
Sunila Kale & Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs
Georgia's Modernizing Mission
Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs
Friday, August 10
U.S., Israel Would Regret Striking Iran
Y. Melman & D. Raviv, Guardian
The World Truly Is in a Golden Age
Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph
UK Problems Will Return After Olympics
Alan Philps, The National
Putin: The Laughing Stock of the World
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
U.S. Must Push Iran Out of Syria
Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon
No Need for Mitt to Bait Old Russian Bear
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Candidates Can't Make Foreign Policy Go Away
Michael Gerson, WaPo
Back to Bad Old Days of U.S. Interference
Adrian Hamilton, Independent
Why U.S.-China 'Grand Bargain' Would Fail
Rory Medcalf, The Diplomat
Could Boris Johnson Really Become Prime Minister?
Alex Massie, FP
India Too Generous with Its Water
Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
Will Syria's Kurds Benefit from Crisis?
Jonathan Marcus, BBC News
Is Turkey Losing to the PKK?
Michael Rubin, Kurdistan Tribune
A Mexican Demagogue Rises Again
Enrique Krauze, The New Republic
Bahrain's Crisis Escalates
Elizabeth Dickinson, World Affairs Journal
Saturday, August 11
Ready for the Syrian Spillover?
Byman & Pollack, Foreign Policy
Middle East Trapped in Black Boxes
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Olympics Showed Britain's Potential
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
Egypt, Israel and Sinai: Triangular Cooperation
The Economist
How Brazil Became a Modern Nation
Follath & Gluesing, Der Spiegel
Obama's European Pivot
John Vinocur, New York Times
Iran: Syria's Ally to the End
Shahram Azkarzadeh, The Conversation
U.S. Puts Money on Proxy War
Nick Turse, Le Monde Diplomatique
The Alchemy of Palestinian Nationhood
Martin Sherman, Jerusalem Post
Tories Are the Zombie Party of the Future
Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman
Syria and the Hidden Hand
Eric Margolis, The National Interest
Syrian Rebels Would Advance U.S. Interests
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
Mexico Rises from the Drug War
Ricardo Ainslie, Washington Post
Don't Ban the Bomb, Or Else
George Jonas, National Post
End Russia's Occupation of Georgia
Grigol Vashadze, European Voice
Sunday, August 12
In Asia, a Wave of Escalating Territorial Disputes
Chico Harlan, WaPo
South China Sea Needs a Mellower Soundtrack
William Pesek, Bloomberg
German Austerity's Lutheran Core
Steven Ozment, New York Times
Politics Moving to Foreground of Euro Crisis
Paul Gillespie, Irish Times
A Peaceful Post-Assad Order Is Probable
Rami Khouri, Daily Star
Is South Africa's Democracy Failing?
Roy Robins, Foreign Policy
Echoes of Iraq in Yemen's War Against al-Qaeda
Casey L. Coombs, Time
Olympic Success a Blow to Scottish Nationalists
Kevin McKenna, Observer
What the Olympics Have Taught China
M. Liu & P. Mooney, Daily Beast
Bob Zoellick and the Real Mitt Romney
James Joyner, Outside the Beltway
Romney Still a Predictable Neocon
Daniel Larison, American Conservative
Peru's Resource-State Curse?
Christopher Sabatini, CNN
How Britain Won the Global Car War
Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
Are Lebanon's Christian Parties Over?
Michael Young, NOW Lebanon
Canada's Queen Is No Foreigner
Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen
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