Week of September 2, 2013 Archives

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Monday, September 2
Obama Loses the Foreign Policy Establishment
Miriam Elder, BuzzFeed
The West's Idiotic Syria Threats
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
The Other 99 Percent of Syrian Casualties
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Obama on War: A Realist and a Risk Taker
Peter Bergen, CNN
Britain Liberates Itself from Acheson's Curse
Amol Rajan, London ES
Autumn's Known Unknowns
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate
Lessons for Greece from Down-and-Out Detroit
Wolfgang Munchau, FT
Europe Desperately Needs German Leadership
Dan O'Brien, Irish Times
Another 'Seinfeld' Election in Australia
William Pesek, Bloomberg
Singapore Has Lessons for Its Old Master
Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph
Forcing Obama's Hand in Syria
Vali Nasr, New York Times
Kerry's Syria Campaign Likely to Define His Legacy
Jay Solomon, WSJ
Don't Call This a Humanitarian Intervention
Charli Carpenter, FP
Nigeria's Reagan?
Marian Tupy, Washington Times
Stephen Harper: Austin Powers of the Arctic
Michael Byers, Toronto Star
The Compass: Germany's One and Only Televised Debate
Tuesday, September 3
Isolationism Has Never Served America
Bret Stephens, Wall St. Journal
A Weak Case for Syria Intervention
Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast
World Would Miss the U.S. Policeman
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Syria, a Cause for Bipartisanship
Charles Lane, Washington Post
Obama's Syrian Tightrope Walk
George Friedman, Stratfor
Asia's Looming Power Shift
Rajan Menon, The National Interest
U.S.-Russian Ties Still Fall Short of 'Reset' Goal
Peter Baker, NY Times
Why Japan's Big Defense Binge Won't Be Big Enough
Kirk Spitzer, Time
Merkel the European Will Wake Up Soon
Ulrich Beck, Guardian
QB Cameron Is Out of Hail Mary Passes
Benedict Brogan, The Telegraph
Are Drones the Answer in Syria?
Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs
In Syria, Outrage Is Not a Strategy
Michael Yon, Michael Yon Online
Can Saudis Buy Away the Next Arab Spring?
Elizabeth Dickinson, TNR
Why Do Nations Go to War?
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Miami Herald
Quebec's Revealing Values Debate
Andrew Cohen, Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, September 4
The Right Way to Punish Assad
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Did Putin Bait a Trap for Obama?
David Samuels, Tablet Magazine
Egypt's Sinai Emerges as New Arena for Jihad
Maggie Michael, AP
France: Surrender Monkeys No More
Gregoire Fleurot, The New Republic
Why the West Should Relax About China
Robert Kelly, The Diplomat
Syria and the Iraq Syndrome
William Galston, Wall Street Journal
U.S. Redefines Role in the World, Again
Morse & Thompson, Ottawa Citizen
Is America an International Outlaw?
Ramesh Thakur, Japan Times
How America Is Making the World Fat
John Norris, Foreign Policy
Egypt's So-Called Revolution
Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books
Syria Is Just Routine, Egypt Is Epic
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Will Assad Unleash Palestinian Terror?
Khaled Toameh, Gatestone
Calling Russia's Bluff
Stefano Casertano, The European
China's One-Child Corruption
Yueran Zhang, Tea Leaf Nation
Swedish Lessons for Obama
Nima Sanandaji, New Geography
Thursday, September 5
America's Luca Brasi Strategy in Syria
Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon
Four Reasons to Say No to Obama
Christian Whiton, The Daily Caller
Doing Nothing in Syria Isn't 'Pro-Peace'
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Would a Syria Stalemate Be Good for America?
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
The G-20 Summit: A Juvenile Parlour Game
Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
How Putin Turned the Tables on Obama
Luis Lema, Temps/Worldcrunch
Australian Voters Face a Choice: U.S. or China?
Hugh White, Bloomberg
U.S. Isn't the Pushy One in Asia
John Blaxland, The Strategist
North Korea Changes Its Tune (Again)
Ulv Hanssen, The Diplomat
Why Jon Stewart Is Wrong About Syria
Max Fisher, Washington Post
Iran Says Give Peace a Chance in Syria
Omid Memarian, The Daily Beast
As Obama Hesitates, Israel Worries
Benny Morris, Los Angeles Times
Growing More Similar Will Push China, U.S. Apart
Mark Leonard, FA
Why Is Big Pharma So Interested in China?
Adam Pasick, Quartz
Haass' N. Ireland Talks Will Change Little
Eamonn McCann, Irish Times
Friday, September 6
The Muddle East
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Weekly Standard
Bush's Iraq Disaster Looms Large Over Syria
Timothy Egan, NY Times
Don't Blame Bush for Obama's Syria Mess
William McGurn, New York Post
A Stand for Syria -- and Obama
Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Why America Is Saying 'No'
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Putin Plays Stubborn Host at G-20
Schepp & Volkery, Der Spiegel
Russia and U.S. Must Settle Old Scores
Alan Philps, The National
There's No One Left to Enforce Global Rules
Philip Stephens, FT
Why Is Prosperous China So Anxious?
Orville Schell, Yale Global
Every American President Is A Hawk
Frank Harvey, National Post
The Rise of the Antiwar Libertarians
Nick Gillespie, The Daily Beast
Syria Isn't Obama's Litmus Test on Iran
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
Tony Abbott Poised for Victory in Australia
Lenore Taylor, The Guardian
Xi: China's Strongman in the Making?
Gordon Chang, World Affairs
Is China Occupying 640 km of Indian Territory?
Zachary Keck, Diplomat
Saturday, September 7
Weak Syria Strike Better than None
Frederick Kagan, Washington Post
The Pentagon's Shocking Expansion into Africa
Nick Turse, TomDispatch
For Israel, a U.S. Strike Is a No-Brainer
Daniel Nisman, New York Times
Israel's Aim for Syria: Everyone Lose
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
Abbott in a Cage of His Own Making
Peter Hartcher, SM Herald
UK & U.S.: Clueless & Rightfully Nervous
Charles Moore, Telegraph
Australia Will Elect a Liar
Mike Carlton, Canberra Times
The Implosion of Australia's Labor Party
Jeff Sparrow, The Guardian
Could U.S. Bombs Bridge the Sunni-Shia Divide?
Marc Lynch, FP
Obama Should Go to Congress Now -- for Iran
Alan Dershowitz, Haaretz
Germany's Economic Miracle May Just Be Over
Sebastian Dullien, FT
How Miners Are Robbing Australia
Seccombe & Blumer, The Global Mail
Obama's Credibility On the Line, Not America's
Anna Simons, TNI
Why Russia Hates Gays
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
Canada's Prison Secret
Angela Hennessy, Vice
Sunday, September 8
How Obama Got Syria So Wrong
Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
Who Will Win: Hobbes, Khomeini or Jefferson?
Tom Friedman, NY Times
U.S. Appears Ridiculous on the World Stage
Conrad Black, National Post
A Sunni Dilemma for Syria's Minorities
Peter Galbraith, LA Times
Syria Blows a Region-Wide Political Crater
Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
Kevin Rudd: Architect of His Own Downfall
Dennis Shanahan, Australian
Tony Abbott's Plan for Australia
Samantha Maiden, Sunday Herald Sun
The Coalition of the Unwilling
Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
Fail to Act on Syria and Tinpot Tyrants Will Win
Janet Daley, Telegraph
Latin America: Capital of Corruption
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
How China Reads North Korea
Joel Wuthnow, The National Interest
Press Iran on Its Human Rights Record
Ray Takeyh, Washington Post
Russia's War on Foreigners
Anna Alekseyeva, Foreign Policy
What Happened to Germany's Green Party?
Charles Hawley, Der Spiegel
Will China Ever Be a Wine Superpower?
Celia Hatton, BBC Magazine
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