Week of August 12, 2013 Archives

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Monday, August 12
Can Beirut Be Paris Again?
Michael J. Totten, City Journal
Iraq's al-Qaeda Nightmare Is Back
Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast
How to Con the West
Amir Taheri, New York Post
The (Russian) Arctic Is Open for Business
Michael Byers, Globe and Mail
Russia's Curious Conservatism
Masha Lipman, The New Yorker
Obama Raises Stakes of Putin's Repression
David Kramer, Moscow Times
North Korea's Next Provocation
Scott Snyder, The Diplomat
Greece Needs a Marshall Plan
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Bloomberg
Where Is Labour Going Wrong?
John Harris, The Guardian
Ed Miliband Bets Entire Future on One Speech
James Forsyth, Spectator
What 'Breaking Bad' Teaches Us About World Politics
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Even if Assad Loses, Iran Gains
Phillip Smyth, The National
The Palestinians Build a Settlement
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
What Did Snowden Get Wrong? Everything
Andrew Liepman, LA Times
Dear Spain: Hands Off Our Rock
Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph
Tuesday, August 13
Think the Euro Crisis Is Over? Think Again
Jeremy Warner, Telegraph
The Second Most Important Election in the World
Alex Berezow, RCW
Al-Qaeda Thinks Globally but Acts Locally
Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
Egypt's Liberals Need to Wake Up
Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
One-State Dream, One-State Nightmare
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Only Americans Want Mideast Peace Talks
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Talks Won't Solve the Jewish State Problem
Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
India and Pakistan Tiptoeing Toward Conflict
Daniel & Miglani, Reuters
Preemption the Only Thing That Can Keep U.S. Safe
John Arquilla, FP
Dangerous Meddling in South China Sea
Ted Carpenter, China-US Focus
Washington Post vs. Vladimir Putin
Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate
Nate Silver: Scottish Independence? No Chance
Scott Macnab, Scotsman
When British Land Was Under German Boots
Sam Chi, RealClearHistory
Northern Ireland's Bankruptcy Problem
Francess McDonnell, Irish Times
What Camus Understood About the Middle East
Paul Berman, TNR
Wednesday, August 14
Why Benjamin Netanyahu Can't Win
David Horovitz, Times of Israel
The Increasingly Irrelevant Vladimir Putin
Tom Friedman, NY Times
Putin's Weapon in the War of Images
Benjamin Bidder, Der Spiegel
Turkey's Show Trials
Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker
The Coming Clash of Civilizations over Gay Rights
John Lloyd, Reuters
America's Global 'Stop & Frisk' Policy
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Slowdown in China Isn't Bad News
Michael Pettis, Yale Global
UK's Afghan Betrayal Would Disgust Churchill
Alex Perkins, Telegraph
China Prepares for Psychological Warfare
Aaron Jensen, The Diplomat
Gibraltar & Falklands Deny Logic of History
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
NoKo Sponsors Terror (Don't Tell State)
Josh Stanton, Weekly Standard
Arctic No Place for Military Spectacles
Matthew Farish, Globe and Mail
Tahrir Square: Where Women Go to Get Raped
Angelina Fanous, Vice
Asia Needs a Dose of Thatcherism
Francis Yeoh, Financial Times
France's Far-Right Perverts Voltaire
Marie Lemonnier, Nouvel Observ.
Thursday, August 15
Is Obama Enabling Tyranny in Egypt?
Jacob Heilbrunn, Nat'l Interest
Muslim Bros. No Friend of Democracy
John Bolton, NY Daily News
Obama's 'I'm Not Bush' Foreign Policy
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Vladimir Putin's Lonely Cold War
Owen Matthews, The Spectator
68 Years Later, Japan Shrine Still a Flashpoint
Elaine Kurtenbach, AP
Bad News for Europe, Good News for Merkel
Martin Kettle, The Guardian
Hezbollah's Refugee Problem
Hugh Eakin, New York Review of Books
Sykes-Picot Is More Alive than We Know
Michael Young, The Daily Star
Why Putin Made the Spy Game Personal
Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs
Eight Horrific Stories of Being Gay in the New Russia
Julia Ioffe, TNR
Boycott Putin, Not the Sochi Olympics
Garry Kasparov, The Daily Beast
Open Season on Ed Miliband
Matthew d'Ancona, London Eve. Standard
Egypt: Back to the Intifada
Michael Hirsh, National Journal
Parisians Are in Love with Hipster Brooklyn
Chelsea Fagan, Vice
A Future Worse than Mubarak's Reign
Shadi Hamid, New York Times
Friday, August 16
Obama Doctrine: Speak Softly and Carry No Stick
James Traub, FP
Egypt Crisis Unlikely to Damage U.S. Interests
Paul Richter, LA Times
Obama's Dangerous Passivity on Egypt & Syria
Jackson Diehl, Wash Post
Egypt's Blood, America's Complicity
Amr Darrag, New York Times
Obama: The Citizen of the World President
Elliott Abrams, Commentary
America Pivots to Asia, Europe Arms It
Robbin Laird, The Diplomat
Boycotting Olympics Won't End Russian Homophobia
Julia Ioffe, TNR
Egyptian Elite Succumb to the Hate Virus
Ulrike Putz, Der Spiegel
Egypt's Sexual Assault Epidemic
Bel Trew, Al Jazeera
What Getting Jumped by Muslim Bros. Looks Like
A. Ismail, Animal
Snowden Doomed to Life in a Capsule
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
How to Beat al-Qaeda in Yemen
Gregory Johnsen, Bloomberg
Bosnia & Syria: Intervention Then and Now
Michael Ignatieff, Boston Rev.
Restoring Israel to Greatness
Jonathan Pollard, Jerusalem Post
All of the World's Architecture Is in China
Allison Meier, Atlas Obscura
Saturday, August 17
Democracy in Egypt Can Wait
Charles Kupchan, New York Times
How Did Egypt Turn So Dark?
Shibley Telhami, Washington Post
Sunni-Shia Terror Ties Turn to Civil War
Matthew Levitt, Foreign Policy
Four Leading Arab Cities in Flames
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Merkel 3.0: Stasis You Can Believe In
Almut Moller, Der Spiegel
The World's Weirdest Borders
Michael Hanlon, The Spectator
All Coups End in Petty Tyranny
Daniel Hannan, Daily Telegraph
Russia's in, America's Out and Germany's Up
Jakub Grygiel, FPRI
Hezbollah Under Fire
Bilal Saab, Foreign Affairs
The Steady Destruction of Europe
Juliane Mendelsohn, The European
Israel Forgets Its Own Borders
Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect
China's War Time Past Needs Scrutiny
Rana Mitter, Japan Times
Why Russia's Changing Its Tune on Iran
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
What's Harming Africa's Poor? Funerals
Roberto Ferdman, Quartz
It's a Greek Neo-Nazi Beach Party!
Gavin Haynes, Vice
Sunday, August 18
Why the U.S. Hasn't Cut Aid to Egypt
David Rothkopf, CNN
The 'To Hell with Them' Doctrine
Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Another Option in Egypt: Do Nothing
Oliver Miles, The Guardian
The World Leaders Who Are Actually Leading
Ian Bremmer, Reuters
The West Is Deluded About the Mideast
Chris Booker, The Telegraph
Reading Machiavelli in Washington
Michael Young, NOW Lebanon
China's Reform Anxiety
Yao Yang, Project Syndicate
Cutting Aid to Egypt Would Be Big Mistake
Hussein Ibish, The National
The Endless U.S.-Cuba Chess Game
Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald
Germany's Obsession with 'Grand Coalitions'
Derek Scally, Irish Times
America's War on the Border
Todd Miller, New York Times
Liberals Take a Step Back in Syria
Loveday Morris, Washington Post
The Long War Against al-Qaeda Isn't Over
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe & Mail
Zawahiri: Still al-Qaeda's Boss
Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
A Drug Lord Walks Free in Mexico
Elaine Shannon, Los Angeles Times
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