Week of February 3, 2014 Archives

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Monday, February 3
The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin
Julia Ioffe, New Republic
Putin Is Losing the Sochi Olympic Game
Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Europe Must Intervene in Ukraine
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
Israel Is Wining the Peace Process
Larry Derfner, National Interest
Occupation Belies the Hollywood Mind
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
How Obama Won the War on Iran Sanctions
Stacy Kaper, Nat'l Journal
Thailand's Looming Crisis
Peter Mellgard & Walter Mead, American Interest
Only Losers in Thailand's Elections
Elliot Brennan, The Diplomat
China's Super Bowl Was Really Boring, Too
Lily Kuo, Quartz
Too Soon to Judge the Arab Spring?
Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
Canada's Assembly Line Health Care
Michael Schweitzer, National Post
Quebec's Demographics Problem
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
Ireland's Mortgage Default Crisis
John McManus, Irish Times
Bill de Blasio: Closet Zionist?
Eric Fettmann, New York Post
Who Cares if Yair Netanyahu Dates a Gentile?
Jon Rosenblum, CNN
Tuesday, February 4
The High Price of Isolationism
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
How to Win Back Ukraine
Michael Leigh, Wall Street Journal
U.S. and China Right to Distrust Each Other
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Democracy Is a Threat to Peace in Europe
Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph
A More Assertive Germany
Friedman & Lanthemann, Stratfor
Germany Must Back Words with Deeds
Christiane Hoffmann, Der Spiegel
Obama Won't Escape Bush's Shadow in Arabia
Faisal Al Yafai, National
The Taliban Goes Broke
Sami Yousafzai & Sam Seibert, Vocativ
Francois Hollande Is No Mitterrand
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Don't Let Putin Grab Ukraine
Timothy Snyder, New York Times
Asia's Dangerous Strongman Nostalgia
William Pesek, Bloomberg View
Why It's Dangerous to Say 'We Are All Chinese'
Rachel Lu, Foreign Policy
Cuba: The Selling of a Nation
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Miami Herald
The Stateless Bedouin of the UAE
Katie Cella, Boston Review
Toronto Star's Holier-than-Thou Ford Fixation
Chris Selley, National Post
Wednesday, February 5
The Third Intifada Has Begun
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
As World Revolts, Great Powers Watch
John Lloyd, Reuters
The Islamists' Goal for Egypt's Christians
Samuel Tadros, Defining Ideas
Putin's New Berlin Wall
Sergey Aleksashenko, Moscow Times
Obama's Syria Chemical Claims Challenged, Again
Jean MacKenzie, GP
This Professor Is Shaping Obama's Mideast Policy
Lee Smith, Tablet
Putin Doctrine Brings Civil War to Ukraine
Kirill Rogov, Eurozine
Time to Draw a Big Red Line in Asia
Joseph Bosco, The National Interest
How the Cossacks Can Secure Sochi
Louisa Thomas, Grantland
The Truth About Thailand's 'Democrats'
Peter Hartcher, SM Herald
Obama Punishes Canada
Kelly McParland, National Post
One Thing That Could Save Afghanistan
Noah Feldman, Bloomberg View
Mideast Wars Show Both Sides of America
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
U.S. Needs to Get Real About Turkey
Misztal, Edelman & Abramowitz, TAI
What's the Point of EU Foreign Policy?
Jan Techau, Carnegie
Thursday, February 6
Why So Much Anarchy?
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
We May Be 7 Months Away from the End of Britain
Alex Massie, Spectator
Why Is Vladimir Putin Smiling?
John Fund, National Review
Putin's Occupation Olympics
Eugene Kontorovich, Reuters
Obama's Dangerous Iran Game Becoming Clear
Peter Foster, Telegraph
Iran, Israel and the Politics of Gesture
Meir Javedanfar, Al Monitor
Inside Egypt's War on Journalists
Sharif Abdul Quddus, Mada Masr
No More Mr. Nice Putin
Fiona Hill & Steven Pifer, Los Angeles Times
If You're Going to Sochi, Take a Flak Jacket
Alex Berezow, RealClearWorld
Stop Pinning Mideast Unrest on Colonialism
Michael Young, The National
The New Hawks Shaping German Foreign Policy
David W. Wise, RCW
Behind the Biggest Population Boom in History
Alan Weisman, Medium
Japan's War on History Comes to America
Edward Jackfert, Nat'l Interest
A Tale of Two Talibans
D. Suba Chandran, The Hindu
South Korea's Dying Bear-Bile Farms
Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press
Friday, February 7
Putin's Fraught Games
David Remnick, The New Yorker
Putin Isn't Out to Impress Western Media
Nikolas Gvosdev, Nat'l Interest
Olympics Actually Don't Unite the Globe
Michael Rubin, Foreign Policy
Google's Rainbow-Colored Message to Moscow
Sam Adams, Daily Mirror
Assad's Low-Tech WMD: Starvation
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Will Asia Ignite a Second Arab Spring?
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Japan Gets Its Very Own Fox News
William Pesek, Bloomberg View
As Olympics Arrive, Russia Experiences Downturn
Steven Myers, NYT
Russia's Dagestan Simmers with Violence
Julia Smirnova, Die Welt
Nationalism Isn't a Threat to European Peace
Daniel Hannan, Telegraph
Russia, EU in 'Bidding War' for Ukraine
Rick MacInnes-Rae, CBC News
Will Quebec's Secularism Debate Fizzle Out?
Chris Selley, National Post
Developing Economies Hit a BRICS Wall
Follath & Hesse, Der Spiegel
Scarlett Johansson, War Criminal?
Daniel Schwammenthal, WSJ
Frankly Scarlett, You Should Give a Damn
Gershom Gorenberg, Prospect
Saturday, February 8
Is Syria Now a Direct Threat to the U.S.?
David Rohde, Reuters
Once Again, Olympics Hijacked By Evil
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail
U.S. Is Losing the War of Wills with Iran
Christopher Griffin, RCWorld
It's About to Get Worse in Venezuela
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
U.S. Supporting Oppression in Egypt
Ahmed Maher, Washington Post
The Arab Spring Heads to Russia
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
Iran's Bomb in the Basement
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Why Is the Left Obsessed with Israel?
Claude Fischer, Boston Review
Scottish Independence Would Be a Blow to UK
J. Freedland, Guardian
China Pokes Nose into America's Backyard
Shannon Tiezzi, Diplomat
The F-Bomb Heard Round the World
Walter Mead, The American Interest
How the Left Still Runs Britain
Dennis Sewell, The Spectator
Three Reasons South Korea Is a Tech Paradise
Greg Scoblete, RCT
Mystery Illness Killing Thousands in Central America
Amar Toor, Verge
Kerry Is a Magnificent Secretary of State
Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
Sunday, February 9
Putin's Western Critics Botch It
Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times
The Hyperinflation That Shook the World
Alexander Jung, Der Spiegel
Whose Garbage Is This Anyway?
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Next Campaign to Kill Keystone
Daniel McGroarty, RealClearWorld
Europe Goes Expansionist
James Carden, American Conservative
China-Russia Arms Trade Heats Up
Vassily Kashin, RIGA
What Happens If Scotland Kills the Union?
Graeme Archer, Telegraph
Israel Boycott Movement Harming Itself
Hussein Ibish, The National
The Death of Entrepreneurism in Europe
Doug Saunders, Globe & Mail
To Save Ukraine, Press the Oligarchs
Adrian Karatnycky, Atlantic Council
Argentina's 'Victorious Decade' Ends with Bust
Tom Hennigan, IT
Ghosts of Japan's Past
Robert Fulford, National Post
10 Things You May Not Know About Russia
Jacob & Benzkofer, CT
Can Germany Build the First Car-Free City?
BBC News
What Does Pussy Riot Mean Now?
Miriam Elder, BuzzFeed
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