Week of July 31, 2017 Archives

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Monday, July 31
Venezuela’s Unprecedented Collapse
Ricardo Hausmann, Project Syndicate
Inside Iran's Mission to Dominate the Middle East
Borzou Daragahi, BuzzFeed
Trump Is Determined to Blow Up the Iran Deal
John Glaser, The National Interest
German Carmakers Deserve to Be Disrupted
Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times
Putin Lays Down a Number: U.S. Must Cut 755 Diplomats
Nataliya Vasilyeva, AP
America’s Newest Epidemic: Toxic Russophobia
Brandon Weichert, American Greatness
Pakistan's Scary Shake-Up
Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast
Supreme Courts Expose Frailty of World's Democracies
Ishaan Tharoor, Wash Post
Climate Change Isn’t the End of the World
David Henderson & John Cochrane, WSJ
North Korea’s Nukes Are Probably Here to Stay
Saagar Enjeti, National Review
What Does China Want in Canada?
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
A Chinese Threat to Australian Openness
Merriden Varrall, New York Times
Europe’s Eastern Rebels Expose Next Fault Line for EU
Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg
Europe Could Replace America on Mideast Peace
Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
The Push to Erase Canada's Racist Past
Brian Hutchinson, Maclean's
Boris Johnson: Three Cheers for the Anglosphere
Richard Alston, Lowy Interpreter
Libya Paris Agreement Good on Paper, But Will It Work?
Mustafa Fetouri, National
Tuesday, August 1
How the Trump Admin Broke State
Robbie Gramer, Dan De Luce & Colum Lynch, For. Policy
What Next for Lexit? The Left-Wing Brexit Vision
Thomas Zagoria, New Statesman
The Sovereignty Delusion
Dalibor Rohac, CapX
Zapad and the Return of a Feared Russian Tank Unit
M. Gordon & E. Schmitt, NY Times
Are China and India on the Road to War?
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Senseless to Compare Religious Majoritarianism in India, Pakistan
S. Dhume, AEI
You Know Who Was Honest? The Taliban
Jawed Naqvi, Dawn
Pentagon Offers Plan to Arm Ukraine
J. Barnes, L. Norman & F. Schwartz, WSJ
Vladimir Putin to America: You've Let Me Down
Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic
Nuclear Diplomacy: From Iran to North Korea?
Jessica T. Mathews, NY Review of Books
Sanctions as Feckless Disapproval
Paul Pillar, LobeLog
Germany's Auto Industry Is Built on Collusion
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Pence's Trip to Europe's East Is an Opportunity
Luke Coffey & Daniel Kochis, Heritage
The Canadian Narrative About Slavery Is Wrong
Charmaine Nelson, The Walrus
Wednesday, August 2
Is Germany a 'Normal' Country?
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
The Strange Silver Lining in the Trump-Putin Affair
Peter Savodnik, Vanity Fair
How the Warsaw Uprising Challenged and Changed Poland
Piotr Wilczek, Nat'l Int.
Poland's Pride at Stake in Tussle With EU
Anna Gromada, Guardian
Cracks Exposed in the Thailand Junta's Southern Strategy
Michael Hart, WPR
Modi Upturning Indian Foreign Policy
Rupakjyoti Borah, East Asia Forum
Is 'Dunkirk' Really About Brexit?
Lee Smith, Weekly Standard
Emmanuel Macron’s Italian Snubs
Pierre Briancon & Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico EU
Strengthening a Key U.S. Alliance in Asia
James Durso, RealClearWorld
The Sandinista Shell Game
Andres Velasco, Project Syndicate
'The Lowest-Profile State Department in 45 Years'
Kevin Quealy, New York Times
Will Europe Restrict African Migration?
Gilbert Sewall, The American Conservative
Toward a Post-Brexit Defense Partnership
L. Aronsson & F. Burwell, Carnegie Europe
Will Fake News Sow Chaos in Kenya's Election?
Nanjala Nyabola, Foreign Policy
Is Moldova's Only Port Vulnerable to Russian Invasion?
Mihai Popsoi, Jamestown
Pakistan: The Combustible Democracy
Emanuel Sarfraz, Lowy Interpreter
A Clarifying Moment for South Korea
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, FPRI
Thursday, August 3
Chaos and Order in a Changing World
Henry Kissinger, CapX
America Never Has a Plan. It Doesn't Need One
Peter Zeihan, RealClearWorld
Thinking Clearly About ISIS
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Remember All Those Leftist Drooling Over Venezuela?
James Kirchick, LA Times
The World Must Turn Back Venezuela's Dictatorship
Ana Quintana, Fox News
Departing AP Reporter Looks Back at Venezuela's Slide
Hannah Dreier, AP
Free Trade Waits for No One
Fritz Lodge, The Cipher Brief
Russia Looks West: Is America Ready for This?
Jim Townsend, Foreign Policy
The U.S. Military vs. Russia and China: Who Would Win WWIII?
Robert Farley, TNI
From Guerillas to the World's Largest Army: The PLA at 90
South China Morning Post
1917: The Year Putin Would Rather Forget
Tony Barber, Financial Times
The General's Trap in Libya
Emily Estelle, Critical Threats
Finding Darko Milicic
Sam Borden, ESPN
North Korea and the ‘Blink’ of War
Patrick Cronin, War on the Rocks
Trudeau the Free World's Last Hope? Then It's Doomed
Terry Glavin, National Post
There’s More to Trump-Kelly Than Meets the Eye
John Crudele, New York Post
Italy Is Losing Patience With Migrant Charities
Fraser Nelson, Spectator
Friday, August 4
Can the Doklam Dispute Be Resolved?
Michael Auslin, Foreign Affairs
Maduro's Fledgling Dictatorship
Tom Jones, Raddington Report
Clash or Compromise: The Return of History in Poland
Chelsea Michta, Lowy Int.
How the Trump Administration Is Losing Afghanistan
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
Understanding Pakistan’s Soft Coup
Mohammed Ayoob, The Strategist
How Long Can Michel Temer Last as President of Brazil?
Yasmeen Serhan, Atlantic
Personal Diplomacy and Trump's Temperament
Aaron D Miller & Richard Sokolsky, CNN
Trump's Recklessness With Diplomacy and Security
Amanda Sloat, USA Today
Can We Survive a Nuclear North Korea?
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Russian Troops Depoly Near Syria-Israel Border
Alexandra Gutowski, FDD
Addressing Iranian Influence in Iraq
Giorgio Cafiero, LobeLog
Pakistan's Reform Moment
Nadeem Ul Haque, Atlantic Council
Germany’s New Power of the Purse
Mark Leonard, Project Syndicate
Turkey and the EU Should Modernize Their Customs Union
Kadri Tastan, GMF
Is a Taiwan Crisis Coming?
Andrew Tan, East Asia Forum
Transcripts of Trump’s Calls With Mexico and Australia
Washington Post
The Leaks That Hurt Us All
Mark Stout, War on the Rocks
Watch Turkmenistan's Leader Play Commando and Blow Stuff Up
Reid Standish, FP
Misery Doesn't Cause Revolution
Michael Ledeen, PJ Media
Saturday, August 5
Russia's Back-to-the-80s Foreign Policy
Daniel Fried, The Atlantic
Calls Grow for a 'Military Schengen' in Europe
David Herszenhorn, Politico EU
Tracking Russian Propaganda in Real Time
Kevin Rothrock, Meduza
How Can We Help Pakistan Improve Governance?
Alyssa Ayres, CFR
To Save Venezuela, Washington Needs the Hemisphere
Jason Marczak, Hou Chron. 
What the Trump-Russia Grand Jury Means
Ryan Lizza, New Yorker
Finding a Realistic Middle Way in Afghanistan
Steven Metz, World Politics Review
The Dangers of a Grand Bargain With China on North Korea
Michael Auslin, LA Times
Why 'America First' Is Also Kabul First
Matthew Dearing & Abdul Waheed Ahmad, Nat'l Int
Why Has Rex Tillerson Belly-Flopped as Secretary of State?
Derek Chollet, For Policy
Amazon and Alibaba Square Off in Southeast Asia
Ken Koyanagi, Nikkei Asian Review
The Terrible Magic of Atomic Weapons
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Sunday, August 6
Moscow Is Our Friend. Honest.
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
Mahmoud Abbas' Last Stand
Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor
'Made in Germany' Label Badly Damaged by Car Scandal
Der Spiegel
Stephen Miller Has a Point, You Cosmopolitans
James Traub, Foreign Policy
Rouhani 2.0 vs. the Hawks in Washington and Tehran
Ali Vaez, New York Times
There’s No Such Thing as an ‘Illiberal’
Yoram Hazony, Wall Street Journal
Is Trump Right About Afghanistan?
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
Obama's Weakness Encouraged Russian Election Meddling
Damir Marusic, TAI
The Ex-Warlords Promising Afghanistan’s 'Salvation'
Max Bearak, Washington Post
At 50, ASEAN Offers a Better Model for Global Cooperation
Kishore Mahbubani, PS
Trump's Strategic Incoherence a Recipe for War
Robert Manning, The Hill
It's Time to Move on From the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
Con Coughlin, The National
How Young & Restless Could Change Kenya Politics
Peter Dorrie, African Arguments
Taro Aso: The Clown Prince of Japanese Politics
Jake Adelstein, The Daily Beast
Martin Luther's Legacy Alive, Even in Secular Canada
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
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