Week of April 10, 2017 Archives

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Monday, April 10
Why ISIS Declared War on Egypt's Christians
Mokhtar Awad, The Atlantic
The Long Road to Trump’s War
Samuel Moyn & Stephen Wertheim, New York Times
China Offers Concessions to Avert Trade War With U.S.
T. Mitchell & S. Donnan, FT
The U.S. Is Not Seeking Regime Change in Syria
Rex Tillerson, This Week
Bashar Assad Needs an Idi Amin Option
Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
Assad Wants to Butcher Syrians -- We Should Let Him
Kevin D. Williamson, NRO
America's Real China Challenge
Lawrence Summers, Washington Post
Renegade Ultranationalists Could Derail Erdogan
Zia Weise, Politico EU
Ignore the Polls -- France's Election Is Far From Over
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
U.S. Should Present China With a 'Finlandized' Korea Option
Robert E. Kelly, TNI
Trump, Syria, and the Messy Middle
James Poulos, The Week
India Loses Faith in Trade
Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View
Venezuela Socialists' Election Strategy? Block Adversaries
Brian Ellsworth, Reuters
China Is No friend to Canada
Terry Glavin, Maclean's
Irish America Is Facing an Unnecessary Death
Niall O'Dowd, Irish Times
Vancouver's New Urban Crisis
Richard Florida, The Province
Tuesday, April 11
Trump's Syria Strike Doesn't Change Narrative
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
There Is No 'Trump Doctrine,' and That's Okay
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Irresistible Constraints
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The Balkans: Russia and America's Next Virtual Battlefield
James Jay Carafano, TNI
As Goes France, So Goes the EU
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Behind Hungary's Latest Move Against George Soros
F, Wilkinson, Bloomberg View
Orban Is the Enemy Within
Jan-Werner Muller, Financial Times
Why Food Insecurity 'Over There' Matters Right Here
Ivo Daalder, RealClearWorld
Eurasia Is on the Rise. Will U.S. Be Sidelined?
Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe
The Dalai Lama Factor in Sino-Indian Relations
Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate
Sideshow in Myanmar
Carine Jaquet, New York Times
Inside Athens' Heroin Cafe
Zachary Siegel, Daily Beast
Doubling Down on America's Misadventure in Yemen
P Cammack & R Sokolsky, WOTR
Hungry Somalis Weigh Daughter's Freedom and Siblings' Lives
K. Houreld, Reuters
The Trump Doctrine Was Written by CNN
Max Boot, Foreign Policy
After Syrian Gassing, Trump Must Expose Iran Deal
Roger Simon, PJ Media
With UK Isolated, Opportunity For Argentina in Falklands?
J.G Tokatlian, Worldcrunch
Wednesday, April 12
Just One Bomb Could Take U.S., Russia to Brink of War
Harry Kazianis, The Week
Putin and Erdogan: Addicted to Power
Reva Goujon, Stratfor
America First Is Dead
Michael Totten, World Affairs Journal
Did Le Pen Really Exorcise the Front National's Demons?
Emma-Kate Symons, FP
And What if It's Melenchon vs. Le Pen?
Economist
Melenchon's Unlikely Path to Power Runs Through Le Pen
Kevin Lees, Suffragio
Martin Schulz: The Man With the Plan?
Derek Scally, Berlin Policy Journal
Kremlin Is Getting Desperate in Efforts to Propagandize Syria
P. Gregory, Forbes
Tillerson: Why Should Taxpayers Care About Ukraine?
Wadhams & Follain, Bloom.
The Deep State and Iran's Next Supreme Leader
S. Vakil & H. Rassam, Foreign Affairs
Bolivia Forges Its Own Approach to Coca Production
Linda Farthing, WP Review
How Poland's Opposition Got Its Mojo Back
Jan Cienski, Politico EU
Russia's Failing Pivot Away From Europe
Anton Barbashin, Intersection Project
Chasing the Dragon: 25 of the Best Books on China
Signature
Orban's Plans on CEU Rebuffed by U.S.
Eva Balogh, Hungarian Spectrum
Soros' Relationship With America's Biggest Foreign Aid Agency
Mike Gonzalez, DS
Thursday, April 13
The Pathways Toward a China-U.S. War
Graham Allison, National Interest
How Russia and China Avoided the Thucydides Trap
Marcin Kaczmarski, Lowy
The Brilliant Incoherence of Trump's Foreign Policy
Stephen Sestanovich, The Atlantic
Rex Tillerson Feels the Moscow Chill
Nahal Toosi, Politico EU
Rex Tillerson's Kinda-Sorta Detente in Moscow
Amie Ferris-Rotman, Foreign Policy
Halting Venezuela's Meltdown
Moises Rendon, CSIS
Russia's Catch-22 in Belarus
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
What You Need to Know About Turkey's Referendum
Asli Aydıntasbas, ECFR
Targets on Their Backs: Inside a Nervous Turkish Newsroom
Kareem Fahim, WaPo
When The West Lets Christianity Die In Its Cradle
Mathieu Bock-Cote, Worldcrunch
French Africa
Jacques Delacroix, Notes on Liberty
The Singapore of Africa?
Tonny Onyulo, Boston Globe
South Ossetian Voters Rebuke the Kremlin
I. Kelekhsayeva & J. Kucera, EurasiaNet
Brexit Fantasies in London
Chris Giles, Financial Times
Democracy Is Not Dying
Thomas Carothers & Richard Youngs, Foreign Affairs
The United Nations Continues to Stumble Badly in Haiti
Lauren Carasik, Miami Herald
Macron, Hollande's Weirdo, Is No Savior of France's Status Quo
J. Miller, Spectator
Friday, April 14
Can a Brash Businessman Save Us From Nuclear War?
Peter Guy, SCMP
MOAB Explained
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Referendum May Seal Turkey's Drift Away From Europe
Aaron Stein, RealClearWorld
Trump's Plan to End Europe
David Frum, The Atlantic
The Deconstruction of the West
Andrew Michta, The American Interest
Greece's Economic Agony Will Just Go On
James Kirchick, CapX
Meet Le Pen's Hidden Arsenal: Melenchon's Army of Abstainers
N. Vinocur, Pol. EU
Marine Le Pen: France's Very Own 'Pinkwasher'?
Roger Simon, PJ Media
Le Pen and the Great Realignment of French Politics
Joel Gombin, Financial Times
Why Bannonism Is in Eclipse
Charles Krauthammer, National Review
How the Soviet Union Thought Itself to Death
Anthony D'Agostino, National Interest
Why Has the Enlightened World Been Silent on Syria?
Bob Feferman, Times of Israel
Turkey About to Leap From Division to Despotism
Elif Shafak, Guardian
Turkey's Referendum Will Solve Nothing
Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, German Marshall Fund
From Deterrence to Doomsday?
William Astore, TomDispatch
Westphalia to Syria -- the Primacy of Nation States
Volker Stanzel, Out of Order
What The Humble Olive Tree Teaches Us About Israel
David George Haskell, Forward
ICYMI: Will ISIS Rebuild in Afghanistan?
Jacqueline Sutherland, RealClearWorld
Saturday, April 15
The Devastating Consequences of a Second Korean War
Dennis Halpin, Nat'l Interest
North Korea and the Risks of Miscalculation
Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
China Warns of a Storm Gathering on North Korea
Gerry Mullany et al, New York Times
North Korea's 2017 Military Parade Was a Big Deal
Ankit Panda, The Diplomat
Trump's Strategy Toward Beijing: All Sticks, No Carrots
Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato
Yes, U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine
Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
A Farl-Left, Far-Right Showdown in France Is Possible
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
Hard Borders of the Mind in Northern Ireland
Andrew Gilmore, ECFR
Another Moment of Destiny For Turkey
Murat Yetkin, Hurriyet Daily News
Erdogan Wants to Be the New Ataturk
Zvi Barel, Haaretz
Think About Liberating the State of Israel
Daniel Arbess, Jerusalem Post
Has South Africa Finally Reached a Tipping Point?
James Hamill, WP Review
Brexiteers and Remainers Could Learn From Life of Jesus
Rev. Richard Coles, NS
Christianity Is Being Driven Out of the Middle East
Perry Chiaramonte, New York Post
FRENCH ELECTION: Uncertainty prevails
Sunday, April 16
France in the End of Days
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Is America's Alliance With Turkey Doomed?
Sukru Hanioglu, National Interest
Voting Underway in Turkey's Historic Referendum
E. Becatoros & Z. Bilginsoy, AP
Erdogan as Autocrat: A Very Turkish Tragedy
Howard Eissenstat, POMED
The Second Year of Europe
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
France Could Get Far-Left Surprise on Election Day
Bernard Henri-Levy, Daily Beast
New Poll Puts Merkel, CDU Back Up as Election Nears
Milan Gagnon, DW
Coptic Christians' Endless Struggle for Survival in Egypt
Samuel Tadros, NRO
In the Twilight of the Castros
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
Why the World Banned Chemical Weapons
Mark Perry, Politico Magazine
The Possible Upsides of Korea Crisis
James Jay Carafano, Daily Signal
Iran's Syrian Gambit
Joost Hiltermann, New York Review of Books
America and Iran Are Jostling for Influence Over Iraq
The Economist
The World Has a Food Surplus -- So Why Is There Hunger?
Doug Saunders, G&M
Ghana Fast Becoming the Christian Center of the World
Kelly Gonsalves, The Week
Trump's Latin American Model
Pablo Piccato & Federico Finchelstein, Boston Review
Why Young Men Queue Up to Die in the French Foreign Legion
Rob Twigger, Aeon
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