Week of May 5, 2014 Archives

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Monday, May 5
Syria's Terror Blowback Threatens Europe, U.S.
Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast
China's Looming Debt Bomb
N. VanderKlippe & E. Reguly, Globe & Mail
East Ukraine Beginning to Feel Like the Balkans
Matt Fisher, Nat'l Post
Europe's Precarious New Normal
Erik Berglof, Project Syndicate
A Surge of Anti-EU Populism Across Europe
Patrick Smyth, Irish Times
Democracy's Deepening Recession
Larry Diamond, The Atlantic
Why Does the U.S. 'Stand So Idly By' in Syria?
Fred Hiatt, Wash Post
President Obama Strikes a Nerve
Paul Pillar, The National Interest
It's the Wrong Time for a World-Weary America
Myron Brilliant, RCW
An Unholy Alliance in East Africa
Bronwyn Bruton, Politico Magazine
Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change
Caleb Rossiter, Wall Street Journal
Please Don't Read This Benghazi Article
Hayes Brown, Think Progress
Don't Tune Out Newest Benghazi Developments
John Kass, Chicago Trib.
Gerry Adams Isn't Immune from Justice
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Telegraph
We Love Mexican -- Why Don't We Love Mexico?
Anthony Bourdain
Tuesday, May 6
Vladimir Putin's Four Dirty Words
David Remnick, The New Yorker
Fear and Propaganda in Eastern Ukraine
David Blair, Daily Telegraph
Russia Bound to Win Its Proxy War in Ukraine
Alex Golts, Moscow Times
Trying to 'Win' Ukraine Could Lead to Its Collapse
Goldgeier & Weiss, TNR
Why the War on Boko Haram Matters
Peter Bergen & Bailey Cahall, CNN
Why Women Are the Spoils of War -- and Nobody Cares
Lauren Wolfe, FP
Saudi Arabia's Goodbye Wave to America
Faisal Al Yafai, The National
China Buys Friends and Influences Nations
William Pesek, Bloomberg
Don't Contain Russia, Push It East
Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
How Committed Is Canada to U.S. Security?
John Ivison, National Post
Britain and the Limits of Austerity
Lawrence Summers, Reuters
Taiwan Is the Success Story, Not China
Daniel Mitchell, The Commentator
Temporary Foreign Workers: A Global Phenomenon
Rick Salutin, Star
Erdogan's Armenian Outreach
Henri Barkey, The American Interest
Fungus Cripples Coffee Trees in Central America
Elisabeth Malkin, NYT
Wednesday, May 7
Israel Won't Stop Spying on America
Jeff Stein, Newsweek
Obama Must Go Big and Get Crazy on Russia
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Mideast: From Nation State to Caliphates
John Rich, NOW Lebanon
Why Ukraine Won't Trigger World War III
Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Quartz
Boko Haram Can't Be Bargained With
Richard Dowden, Daily Telegraph
Obama's Foreign Policy: Spin Over Substance
David Ignatius, Wash Post
France's Caviar Leftists on a Warpath
Agnes Poirier, Al Jazeera
Russia Is Worried About the Wrong Neighbor
Edward Goldberg, RCW
What's Up with Brazil?
Alistair Burnett, Yale Global
China's Terrorism Problem Now a Global Threat
Philip Potter, Guardian
How Afghan Corruption Beat the U.S. Military
R. Jeffrey Smith, Slate
The Isolating Putin Doctrine
Vladimir Ryzhkov, Moscow Times
The Bitter Truth About Settlements
Matthew Duss, American Prospect
Why Rand Paul Is No Enemy of Israel
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Is Modi Too Big a Man for India?
Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times
Thursday, May 8
The World's Most Dangerous Water Fight
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Why China Is Putting an Oil Rig Off Vietnam's Coast
Chris Beam, AP
What Drives Vladimir Putin?
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Don't Assume Putin Can End Bloodshed in Ukraine
Chris Preble, Rare
Judiciary Defeats Democracy in Thailand
Kevin Hewison, Conversation
Why a North Korean Spring Will Never Happen
Doug Bandow, TNI
The Right Way to Press Iran
Kenneth Pollack, New York Times
The President's Feckless 'Plan' for Iran
Cliff May, Defense of Democracies
Bashar al-Assad's Favorite New Bomb
Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
The Mess NATO Made in Afghanistan
Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
'Stability' Over Liberty in Venezuela
Roger Noriega, The American
Literature and Geopolitics
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
In Europe, the Far Right Rises Again
Sonni Efron, Los Angeles Times
How French Leftists Learned to Love Austerity
A. Haldenby, Spectator
Black Death: The Upside to Killing Half of Europe
Alex Berezow, RCSc
Friday, May 9
When Will the West Wake Up?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wall Street Journal
How Boko Haram Imperils Nigeria's Future
Melinda Gates, CNN
The Real Africa
David Brooks, New York Times
Why Nigeria Has Been Useless to Stop Boko Haram
Leela Jacinto, FP
He's Made It Worse: Obama's Middle East
Abe Greenwald, Commentary
Obama Needs to Lead with Feeling
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Putin's Runaway Invasion
Owen Matthews, The Spectator
How Offshore Finance Sank Western Soft Power
Ben Judah, American Int.
Venezuelans Ask What Now After Protest Camp Raids
Josh Goodman, AP
U.S. Officials: Blame Palestinians, Too
Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg View
Northern Ireland Is Still a Tinderbox
Neill Lochery, National Post
What Japan Cannot Learn from Germany
Stefano von Loe, The Diplomat
The Truth About China's Economy
Christopher Whalen, National Interest
In China, You're a Wheat Person or Rice Person
Tom Jacobs, Pac Standard
Mighty Yorkshire Another Country in Waiting
Simon Jenkins, Guardian
Saturday, May 10
Putin's Zombie Apocalypse
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
How Obama Is Accelerating America's Decline
Dominique Moisi, Les Echos
China's Oil Rig Gambit Endangers America
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Here's Why Russia Won't Invade E. Ukraine
Vassily Kashin, RIGA
German Angst Leading Europe Back to Yalta
Philip Stephens, FT
Australia in Danger of Being Europeanized
Greg Sheridan, Australian
The UK's Hidden Time Bomb
Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
A Sad Independence Day for Israel
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
Putin Has Exposed Europe's Incompetence
Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
Every Side Is Using Ukraine
Matthew Stevenson, New Geography
A Coming Era of Robot Wars
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Europe's Lost Generation Is Still Lost
Max Tholl, The European
Europe's South Struggles to Rise Again
Paul Ames, Global Post
Putin Is Trying to Remake Russia's WWII Memories
Julia Ioffe, TNR
Sunday, May 11
Why John Kerry Has Failed in the Mideast
Aaron David Miller, LA Times
How to Curb Russian and Chinese Aggression
Tom Friedman, NY Times
No, Crimea Is Not a 'Model' for China in Asia
Robert E. Kelly, The Diplomat
Where Will Putin Turn Next?
Masha Gessen, Washington Post
The War You Were Expecting? Putin's Won It
David Patrikarakos, Politico
Don't Worry, Russian History Is on Our Side
P.J. O'Rourke, Daily Beast
Why the West Should Pay Attention to Modi
Jason Burke, The Guardian
They Saved the Eurozone but Forgot Its People
Matthew Yglesias, Vox
Welcome to Militant England
Rafael Behr, The New Republic
Hillary Clinton's Boko Haram Problem
Newt Gingrich, CNN
Rand Must Make Economic Case for Non-Intervention
M. Feeney, Reason
Santos Oversells Colombia Peace Deal
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
A Birth Defect in the Heart of Africa
James Traub, Foreign Policy
Justin Trudeau's Ideological Purge
Robert Fulford, National Post
Iranian Women Ditching Head Scarves on Facebook
Eric Eyges, Vocativ
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