Week of December 23, 2013 Archives

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Monday, December 23
Was 2013 the Year We Lost China?
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
120 Years After Birth, Mao's Presence Lingers
Christopher Bodeen, AP
Xi Jinping: The Man Who Would Be Mao
Gordon Chang, National Interest
Post-Saddam Iraq Is an Unmitigated Disaster
Tom Switzer, Sydney MH
Don't Get in Bed with Assad
Emile Hokayem, New York Times
Why the Elites Are Rising Up
Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Merry Christmas, Europe -- You've Been Downgraded
Alex Berezow, RCW
India Is Sitting on a Time Bomb
Sunny Hundal, The New Republic
The Tug of War for Turkey's Soul
Joshua Walker, War on the Rocks
EU Is a Myth We're Brainwashed to Believe
Boris Johnson, Telegraph
Is Libya al-Qaeda's New Hotbed?
Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast
What Should the U.S. Ask from Iran?
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Is A United Northern Ireland a Pipe Dream?
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
2013 a Terrible Year for Global LGBT Rights
J. Lester Feder, BuzzFeed
Japan Doubles Down on ASEAN
J. Berkshire Miller, The Diplomat
Tuesday, December 24
Al-Qaeda: The Monster That Won't Die
Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon
Is al-Qaeda Outdoing the U.S. on Truth Telling?
Peter Bergen, CNN
Sorry Haters, but America Is Not the Grinch
John Norris, Foreign Policy
How South Sudan Squandered Its New Nation
Odera & Blair, Reuters
Kerry's Oh-So-90s Security Nonsense
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
The Myth of the Reformer Dictator
Michael Moynihan, The Daily Beast
North Korea Is Really No Joke
Alex Massie, The Scotsman
U.S. & China: World's Top Rogue States
Brahma Chellaney, Project Syn.
Globalization and Democracy Can Coexist
Seth Mandel, Commentary
The Great U.S.-Israel Rift That Isn't
Haim Saban, Los Angeles Times
Jon Stewart's Zionist Takeover of Egypt
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg
The Mideast's Unlikely Allies
Ben Fishman, New York Times
Don't Expect Rouhani to Transform Iran
Michael Rubin, Global Public Sq.
Syria's Rebels Must Talk to 'Frightened Middle'
Faisal Al Yafai, National
Francis, Michelle Bachelet and the Market
Carlos Montaner, Miami H'ld
Wednesday, December 25
France in Distress
John Vinocur, Wall Street Journal
The Pyongyang Purge
Yuriko Koike, Project Syndicate
Nannygate: U.S.-India Relations Rocked
Seema Sirohi, National Interest
The Good, the Bad and Rob Ford
Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail
The Grinch Who Stole China's Christmas
Adam Minter, Bloomberg
Which World Leaders Get Lumps of Coal This Year?
David Rothkopf, FP
The Tragedy of Thailand's Politics
Tom Plate, Japan Times
Preventing Another Darfur in South Sudan
Prendergast & Kumar, TDB
China's South Sudan Problem
Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat
Persecution at Christmastime
Nina Shea, National Review
Pakistan's Persecuted Christians
Akbar Ahmed, New York Times
Mexico Showed the Way in 2013
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
What Britain Can Learn from Harlem
Michael Goldfarb, The Guardian
Is Putin One of Us?
Patrick Buchanan, Townhall
Strange Bedfellows: Pat Buchanan and Putin
Harold Meyerson, Wash Post
Thursday, December 26
Why Abe Visited the Yasukuni Shrine
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC
Japan's Soft Power Stumble
James Fallows, The Atlantic
The Year America Pivoted Back to the Middle East
Gideon Rachman, FT
Iran's Delays and Deceptions
Clifford May, National Review
A New Cold War? No, but...
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
How the U.S. Triumph in South Sudan Came Undone
Colum Lynch, FP
What if Germany Had Won World War I?
Martin Kettle, The Guardian
China Must Purge Mao's Ghost
Gao Wenqian, New York Times
Another Annus Horribilis for Francois Hollande?
James Shields, GPS
France a Diplomatic Powerhouse in 2013
David Blair, Daily Telegraph
Indian Diplomats Can't Afford U.S. Minimum Wage
S. Pal, The Hindu
India, Take a Look in the Mirror
Juliet Sorensen, NY Daily News
The Next Front in the War for East Congo
Caroline Hellyer, Al Jazeera
Russia Has the Power to Fix Syria -- Will It?
Michael Young, The National
Rob Ford's Very Loyal Facebook Friends
Gideon Resnick, Daily Beast
Friday, December 27
Austerity Is Hollowing Out Europe's Armies
The Economist
How Iranian Oil Fuels Corruption in Turkey
Schanzer & Dubowitz, FP
The Awkward State of U.S.-China Relations
Nina Hachigian, LA Times
Can Muslim Lands Learn to Tolerate Christianity?
Michael Gerson, WaPo
The Putin-Yanukovych Anti-West Pact
Lilia Shevtsova, American Interest
The Problem of the Middle East's First Sons
Michael Rubin, Commentary
The Filth in Erdogan's Closet
Andrew Finkel, New York Times
As Obama Dithers, North Africa Unravels
John Bolton, NY Daily News
Who Can Halt the Crisis in South Sudan?
Alex Vines, The Guardian
Democracy at Risk for All Dominicans
Roger Noriega, Miami Herald
How EU Membership Has Hurt Bulgaria
Max Rivlin-Nadler, New Republic
Can Britain Really Outpace Germany?
Martin Vander Weyer, Telegraph
Thailand's Silent Coup
Sin-ming Shaw, Project Syndicate
Much Ado About the Arctic's Great Game
Adam Lajeunesse, National Post
Germany's New Minority Comics
Alexander Kuhn, Der Spiegel
Saturday, December 28
Global Unrest: Where Will It Kick Off Next?
Paul Mason, The Guardian
Japan Officially Enters the New Cold War
Michael Auslin, NRO
Is Japan Finally a Normal Country?
Lionel Pierre Fatton, The Diplomat
Syria and the Banality of Evil
Michael Young, NOW Lebanon
The Meaning of the Chatah Assassination
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
Iran's War on Religion
Katrina Lantos Swett, RealClearWorld
America's One-Sided Diplomacy
Ramesh Thakur, Japan Times
A Welcome Display of Indian Backbone
Praveen Swami, The Hindu
Somali Piracy Was Reduced to Zero This Year
David Yanofsky, Quartz
A Frantic Year in Australian Politics
Mark Kenny, Sydney Morning H'ld
Why Ireland Fears Scottish Independence
Charles Moore, The Spectator
'Tis the Season to Bash Israel
David Weinberg, Jerusalem Post
Israel's Undeserving Poor
Shmuel Rosner, New York Times
An '80s Flashback? Russia Back in Nicaragua
Dan Salgar, El Espectador
Central African Republic Needs Help
Nzapalainga & Layama, WaPo
Sunday, December 29
4 Global Stories You May Have Missed in 2013
Scoblete & Sullivan, GPS
Why the West Hasn't Boycotted the Olympics
Christopher Caldwell, FT
Uncovering the Murky Truth in Benghazi
David Kirkpatrick, NYT
60 Incredible World Photos from 2013
RealClearWorld
Hollywood Was Duped By South Sudan
Daniel Howden, The Observer
Russia's Rising Navy
Thomas Fedyszyn, The National Interest
Putin's Mediterranean Move
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
The Geopolitics of Geoengineering
Eli Kintisch, Technology Review
Don't Let Israel Declare War for America
Sheldon Richman, Reason
The French Do Christmas Better
Theodore Dalrymple, Telegraph
Japan & India Make Move to Balance China
Vivek Sengupta, Pragati
Syria's Immense Suffering Can't Continue
Jim Murphy, New Statesman
How Erdogan Reshaped Turkish Politics
Brent Sasley, Washington Post
Puncturing the Myth of Scotland
Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman
Standing Up to Forced Marriage in Britain
Anna McKie, Standpoint
The Spectacles That Explain Somalia
Mark Doyle, BBC
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