Week of February 10, 2014 Archives

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Monday, February 10
A Renewed Alliance
Barack Obama & Francois Hollande, Washington Post
Why Barack Obama Loves France
Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
To Move Putin on Syria, Reference Leningrad
Trudy Rubin, Inquirer
Europeans Are Telling the EU to F*** Off, Too
Alex Berezow, RCW
What Would Chinese Hegemony Look Like?
Robert Kelly, The Diplomat
Why Pussy Riot Failed in One Chart
Mark Adomanis, Forbes
The Price of Pulling Back from the World
Stephen Sestanovich, NYT
You Bet America Is Exceptional
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
When Reagan Cut and Run
Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy
Has the Israel Lobby Lost Its Mojo?
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman
Israel's Fortune Is Putin's Horror
Arthur Herman, New York Post
Georgia and Russia Play Nice
Michael Cecire, The American Interest
Why Iran's Rising Divorce Rate Is Good News
Peter Taylor, National Post
A Greek Tragedy Still Looms for Europe
Dan O'Brien, Irish Independent
The UN Assault on the Catholic Church
Claudia Rosett, Wall St. Journal
Tuesday, February 11
Games in Sochi, Siege in Syria
George Packer, The New Yorker
Putin a Valuable Reminder for the West
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
America's Power Play in Ukraine
George Friedman, Stratfor
The Threat of Another Euro Crisis
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Israel vs. the Israel Lobby
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Would Orwell Be Called a Terrorist Today?
George Monbiot, The Guardian
Use Force to Save Starving Syrians
Postel & Hashemi, New York Times
Hollande's Vacuous Rebranding
Peter Gumbel, Bloomberg View
Getting at the Heart of China's Resource Quest
Elizabeth Economy, CFR
Stephen Walt Is Not Obama's George Kennan
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
A Good Time for That 'Pacific Pivot'
Max Boot, Commentary
Russia Wants Hockey Gold -- Too Much
Lawrence Martin, Globe & Mail
What Is Hamid Karzai Thinking?
Peter Tomsen, Politico Magazine
6 Things to Watch for in the Scot Referendum
Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph
Yes, Kazakhstan Should Change Its Name
Max Fisher, Washington Post
Wednesday, February 12
Will Asia Spark a World War?
Alistair Burnett, Yale Global
You're Getting a Distorted View of Russia
Stephen Cohen, The Nation
Israel's Big Question
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
How to Cope with China's Navy
Medcalf & Mohan, Australian
Saving Europe
Strobe Talbott, Brookings Institution
Obama Turns a Blind Eye to a Rogue Russia
Rebeccah Heinrichs, RCW
Russia Is a Conservative Power
William Lind, American Conservative
Rouhani Fends Off Hardliners ... For Now
Roula Khalaf, Financial Times
Will China Win Taiwan without a Shot?
Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy
Why the Swiss Slammed the Door Shut
Peter Hartcher, SM Herald
U.S. Thinks Europe's Useless. They're Wrong
Jan Techau, Carnegie
The Root of the Mideast's Problems
Selim Sazak, The National Interest
Sisi's Grave Choice
Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon
Why Are So Many Old People Dying in the UK?
D. Dorling, New Statesman
Sports and Politics Don't Mix
George Jonas, National Post
Thursday, February 13
What Might a Stable Syria Look Like?
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Time for Tough Love in East Asia
Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest
Why Is China Really Provoking Its Neighbors?
Kaplan & Baker, Stratfor
Friendless China
Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
U.S.-German Relations at a Postwar Low
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Mideast Peace Process Needs New Brokers
Pierre Atlas, Indianapolis Star
Putin's Popularity Waned at Home Before Olympics
Julie Ray, Gallup
What Americans Don't Get About Putin
Gregory Feifer, Politico Magazine
Tepid U.S. Support Paying Off in Southern Syria
Michael Weiss, NOW
China's Big Overseas Spending Spree
Brendan O'Reilly, The Diplomat
British Militarism Needs More than a 'Pause'
Seumas Milne, Guardian
Britain Isn't a Racist Country
Clarissa Tan, The Spectator
France's Unwanted Roma
Henri Astier, BBC Magazine
Jordan's Fragile Stability
Jose Ciro Martinez, Los Angeles Times
Arabic Wikipedia Is a Flashpoint -- and a Beacon
Alice Su, Wired
Friday, February 14
Great Britain Withdraws from the World
Alan Philps, The National
The Banality of Soviet Evil
Jonah Goldberg, National Review
China's Historical Amnesia
Minxin Pei, Indian Express
Could Syria Kill al-Qaeda?
Hassan Mneimneh, German Marshall Fund
Eurozone Crisis Is Just Getting Started
Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
Black Gold Flowing Again in Iran
Johnson & Trindle, Foreign Policy
Britain's Royal Welfare Queen
Kenan Malik, New York Times
The French Gender-Bending Panic of 2014
Robert Zaretsky, RCW
Iran and India: Afghanistan's 'Plan B'?
Rajeev Agarwal, The Diplomat
Chocolate and Hugo Chavez
Tim Padgett, Miami Herald
We Need a Marshall Plan to Fix Ukraine
Daniel Bilak, Globe and Mail
Saving Elephants from Criminals and Jihadists
Evgeny Lebedev, Vice
Hungary Turns East as Europe Fades
Mark Varga, The National Interest
Could Pakistan Become a Sharia State?
Michael Kugelman, GPS
Sochi Athletes Get It on at the Tinder Olympics
Lizzie Crocker, Daily Beast
Saturday, February 15
The Rotten Fruits of Democracy
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
It's Time to Change Assad's Mind. Here's How
Samuel Berger, WaPo
Put God in Charge of Jerusalem
Adam Garfinkle, Tablet Magazine
How Holocaust Denial Became Easy
Noga Arieh, Ynet News
The Farce in Sochi
Emma Teitel, Maclean's
The Man in a Hurry to Save Italy
Dinmore & Segreti, Financial Times
New al-Qaeda Makes Old al-Qaeda Look Wimpy
Con Coughlin, Telegraph
Who Started World War I?
Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel
Proof of the West's Fading Global Relevancy
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
Asia's Dangerous History Wars
Rajan Menon, The National Interest
Palestinians to Kerry: "No"
Tom Wilson, Commentary
Time to Worry About Salafist Takfiris
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
The Collapse of the Russian Empire
Aurel Braun, The American Interest
The Arab Spring Is Not Over
Jimmy Carter, Al Jazeera
Time to Start Thinking About an Open Arctic
C. Cooper, Next Navy
Sunday, February 16
Saudis to Press Obama on Syria Regime Change
Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor
China's Risky Reforms
Ian Bremmer & David Gordon, Project Syndicate
Of Course China Wants to Replace the U.S.
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Time for U.S. Military Intervention in Africa
Michael O'Hanlon, LA Times
Russia's Gold-Medal Whistleblowers
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Germany's Enviable Shock Absorber
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Scotland Isn't Betraying Britain -- Britain Is
Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail
Scotland's Stupid, Isolationist Argument
Nick Curtis, London E.S.
Why Ukraine? Take a Look at Its Neighbors
Dmitri Oreshkin, Kommersant
Lord Byron, Global Interventionist
Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast
Spain's Futile Attempt to Rein in China
David Bosco, Foreign Policy
The Suburbanization of Mexico
Wendell Cox, New Geography
Iran's Religious War on Arab Poets
Cesar Chelala, Japan Times
Obama's Inept Ambassadors
Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest
The World's Worst Living Architect
Geoff Manaugh, Gizmodo
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