Week of August 7, 2017 Archives

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Monday, August 7
Has China's Rise Topped Out?
Michael Schuman, Bloomberg
Trump's Alice-in-Wonderland Approach to the Iran Deal
Doyle McManus, LA Times
UN Vote Against N. Korea Shows System Works, for Once
Mary Dejevsky, Guardian
Venezuela Quells Attack on Military Base, Two Killed
G. Gupta & A. Ulmer, Reuters
Germany Joins the Resistance
Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
It Would Take a Miracle to Unseat Angela Merkel
Damien McElroy, The National
Jared Kushner Looks for a Deal in the Mideast
K. Manson & J. Reed, Financial Times
EU Must Not Threaten Poland's Sovereignty
Mike Muller & Luke Coffey, Daily Signal
America's Ukraine Hypocrisy
Ted Galen Carpenter, The National Interest
Iraqi Clerics Fuel Dispute Over Kurdish Independence
Ibrahim Malazada, Al-Monitor
Trump Should Support an Independent Kurdistan
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project Syndicate
Hungary’s Hipster Patriots Set Sights on Orban
Ryan Heath, Politico EU
Gaza’s Wasted Generation Is Going Nowhere
W. Booth & H. Balousha, Washington Post
Barbara Lee’s Long War on the War on Terror
Joshua Keating, Slate
Canada Must Stop Dwelling in Anglo-French-Canadian Self-Hate
Conrad Black, NP
ANC the Big Loser of Zuma No Confidence Vote
Roger Southall, Mail & Guardian
How Tech Companies Are Fighting the Digital War Against ISIS
Matt Reitman, RCL
Tuesday, August 8
When Britain and France Almost Became One Country
Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic
Venezuela Is What Jeremy Corbyn Desires for This World
Graeme Archer, CapX
Why the U.S. Needs Trickle-Down Diplomacy
Scott Moore, National Interest
The Real Damage Trump Is Doing to Global Democracy
Nicolas Bouchet, RCWorld
Essential Guide to Kenya’s High-Stakes Election
Murithi Mutiga, Inter. Crisis Group
A Way Out of the Doklam Standoff for China and India?
Anubhav Gupta, WP Review
Doklam’s Unintended Consequence
C. Raja Mohan, Indian Express
Why Is Donald Trump Still So Witless About the World?
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Under Trump, Gains Over ISIS Have ‘Dramatically Accelerated’
K. DeYoung, WaPo
Macron's Honeymoon Sure Ended Fast
Adam Nossiter, New York Times
Will a Summer of Fire and Trouble Pressure Portugal's Socialists?
P. Ames, Pol. EU
Navalny: A Real Alternative, or Just Another Putin?
Kathrin Hille, Financial Times
We Need To Stop Calling Maduro ‘President'
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
The Medieval Legacy of Civil Forfeiture
Stephen Mihm, Bloomberg View
Making Art in Hoxha's Albania
Lorina Hoxha, K2.0
'Our Future Will Be Violent Extremism'
Reid Standish, Foreign Policy
McMaster and Mattis Are Rare Assets
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Protecting America in the New Missile Age
Heritage Foundation
Wednesday, August 9
China's Ready for War -- Against U.S. if Necessary
Graham Allison, Los Angeles Times
This Is the Moment of Truth on North Korea
David Ignatius, Washington Post
North Korea's Military Capabilities
Eleanor Albert, Council on Foreign Relations
The Key to Countering North Korea Lies Offshore
James Stavridis, Bloomberg View
Don't Believe the Hype About the North Korea Threat
Robert Kelly, National Interest
The Trump Admin Leakers Deserve to Be Investigated
B. Wittes & S. Hennessey, FP
What Is the Point of Being an American?
Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch
Fake News Is Bad. Fake History Is Worse
Natalie Nougayrede, Guardian
Why Poland Doesn't Fear the EU
Markus Ziener, IPS Journal
Russia and China's Enduring Alliance
Jacob Stokes, Foreign Affairs
Cleaving to the Medieval, Journeymen Ply Their Trades in Europe
M. Eddy, NYT
The Case for Arming Ukraine
Casey Michel, National Review
At Balkan Crossroads, Anger at Black Sheep Image
Peter Geoghegan, Politico EU
Understanding the Russian Mindset
Lev Gudkov, Open Democracy
The Rise of 'Israel's Macron'?
Marc Alves, Worldcrunch
Face It, Putin: You're the Man Who Lost Ukraine
Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council
Thursday, August 10
North Korea, Nukes, and Negotiations
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
This Is Not Doomsday
Charles Pena, RealClearWorld
The Game Is Over and North Korea Has Won
Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Policy
Who Are You Calling a Warmonger?
James Kirchick, Los Angeles Times
No Matter What, North Korea Is a Gamble
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Even a Jazz Musician Needs to Know When to Stop Improvising
D. Graham, Atlantic
Shoot Down North Korea's Next Test Missile
Weekly Standard
Growing Extremism and Strategic Instability in Asia
Chietigj Bajpaee, Lowy Interpreter
Is a Second Sino-Indian Border War Imminent?
Feng Zhang, The Strategist
Paris and Berlin No Longer Look Outward to Secure Europe
J. Rathke, Cipher Brief
When Women Are Branded as Witches and Brutalized
Swati Parashar, Indian Express
South Asia’s Escalating Strategic Competition
Sameer Lalwani & Travis Wheeler, WOTR
Snatching Despotism From the Jaws of Democracy
Cae Odell, Ramen IR
Trump Hasn't Appointed an Ambassador to South Korea
John Hudson, BuzzFeed
Could Argentine Austerity Bring Peronism Back in Its Wake?
Benedict Mander, FT
Laidback Living on an Australian Rocket-Testing Range
S. Solomon, Atlas Obscura
Time Is on Netanyahu's Side in Legal Storm
Dan Williams, Reuters
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse in the Moscow Subway
Max Degtyarev, Meduza
Friday, August 11
Israel Anxiously Awaits Butterfly Effect of Destruction of ISIS
Micah Halpern, Obs.
The Lost Honor of Latin America's Hard Left
Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Gaming Out the North Korea Crisis: How It Could Escalate
David Nakamura, WaPo
The West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru
Bob Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone
The Wages of Permanent Austerity
Mark Seddon, Guardian
Kim Jong Un, a Moody Young Man With a Nuclear Arsenal
Choe Sang-Hun, NYT
On Raqqa Frontline: Kurds, Arabs, Italians Close In on ISIS
G. Stabile, Worldcrunch
Venezuela or Chile: A Tale of Two Constitutions
Max Radwin, World Politics Review
Ukraine's War With No End
Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal
The Drama of Kenya's Presidential Election
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
How America Would Wage a Nuclear War Against North Korea
Dave Majumdar, TNI
Is Saudi Arabia Waging War on Its Shia Minority?
Matthias Von Hein, Deutsche Welle
Can Georgia Be a Useful American Ally?
William Ruger, War on the Rocks
Orban's Flagging Vision for a New Europe
Ivan Krastev, Financial Times
ARCHIVE: Future of U.S.-China Relations Runs Through North Korea
J. Shapiro
Saturday, August 12
'Nazis, Spies, and Terrorists': Can Germany-Turkey Ties Endure?
Der Spiegel
The Alternative to Nuclear War Is a Revolution
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
When Words Risk Provoking War
Kori Schake, Defense One
Make North Korea's Nukes Obsolete
David Goldman, Asia Times
Donald Trump, the Apollinaire of Politics
Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Times
In South Asia, India Must Be the Un-China
Suhasini Haidar, The Hindu
Italy's Smart Cities of the Future
Ian Sherr, CNET
Lessons in Healthcare from Guernsey?
William Walter, Institute of Economic Affairs
Amid Washington Russia Frenzy, Kaspersky Faces Backlash
Elias Groll, For. Policy
Obstacles and Pressures as Rouhani’s Second Term Begins
Farideh Farhi, LobeLog
Sunday, August 13
Will the U.S. Strike North Korea?
Minghao Zhao, Project Syndicate
North Korea Comes Armed, Barricaded, and With Hostages
Wallace Gregson, TNI
Who Is Kim Jong Un, and What Will He Do Next?
Anna Fifield, Washington Post
North Korea Crisis Won’t End Until Trump Stops Talking
Yochi Dreazen, Vox
The World’s Duty to Venezuela
Bernard Henri-Levy, Times of Oman
Britain Must Ask for More Time to Negotiate Brexit
Gina Miller, Guardian
Panic Over a Brexit Legal Limbo Isn’t Justified
Richard Ekins, The Spectator
Canada’s Ultimate Leverage in NAFTA Talks With U.S.
Andrew Coyne, National Post
The New World Order Is Leaving the U.S. Behind
James Gibney, Bloomberg
Is Populism Really Dead in Argentina?
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Why Southeast Asia's 'Stabilitocracies' Endure
David Hutt, The Diplomat
The Francification of America
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review
Emmanuel Macron: Monsieur Unpopular
Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
Beijing Won’t Let Indonesia’s Chinese Burn Again
Sebastian Strangio, Foreign Policy
The Other Russia Story We Need to Talk About Is Adoption
Mary Vought, Daily Signal
Rouhani’s Road to Ruin
Aaron Kliegman, The American Interest
Japan's Ingrained Culture of Gaming
Tor Ching Li, Straits Times
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