Week of September 18, 2017 Archives

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Monday, September 18
Twitter Man vs. Rocket Man
Susan Glasser, Politico
Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat
Shinzo Abe, New York Times
Creating European Sovereignty
Gaspard Koenig, Worldcrunch
Italy's Five Star Movement: Unanswered Questions
James Politi & Hannah Roberts, FT
The Austrian Threat to EU Unity
Mike Scrafton, The Strategist
Merkel Can't Lead Germany, Much Less the Free World
Alex Berezow, National Interest
Haunting Relics of a Country That No Longer Exists
C. Blau & S. Heraud, Nat Geo
Ukraine's Elites Keep On Ruining the Country
Kenneth Courtis, The Globalist
Kenya: Dying for Democracy?
Alice McCool, Raddington Report
Devolution in Wales Is Here to Stay
Huw Edwards, Guardian
RT, Sputnik and Russia's New Theory of War
Jim Rutenberg, New York Times Magazine
Remembering Vietnam
George Will, National Review
John McDonnell: The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?
Oliver Wiseman, CapX
U.S. and Mexican Cities Continue Their Own Diplomacy
Barker & Gootman, Brookings
Why Canada's Rich Should Revolt
Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
Libya's Oil Recovery Over a Barrel
Reed Blakemore & Elissa Miller, Atlantic Council
Tuesday, September 19
Germany's Profound and Ancient Divisions
James Hawes, New Statesman
Britain Needs the Ghost of Benjamin Disraeli
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy
The U.S. Faces Unsavory Choices in the Korean Peninsula
George Friedman, GPF
The Future of Global Leadership
Sophie Eisentraut, Out of Order
Trump’s U.N. Obsession Meets Reality
Richard Gowan, Politico
It's All to Play For in Syria, and Russia Is Winning
John McLaughlin, Ozy
The Hubris of Hezbollah
Andrew Exum, The Atlantic
Suu Kyi Deserves Unwavering Support
Hitoki Den, Japan Times
Will Pakistan Part Ways With Its Proxies?
Daud Khattak, The Diplomat
Australia Shouldn't Count On China For Growth and Profits
Peter Hartcher, SMH
Loving USAID to Death
Diana Ohlbaum, LobeLog
Republicans Down Under Tire of Waiting For the Queen to Die
Z Sheftalovich, Pol. EU
A Man Who Could Have Changed Iran
Andrew Scott Cooper & David Daoud, RCWorld
Defining Nepotism's Threat to Democracy
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
Redefining Europe, and Europeans
Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate
Can Social Capitalism in France Be Saved?
John Lloyd, Reuters
Pay Up, Europe
Michael Mandelbaum, Foreign Affairs
Wednesday, September 20
Welcome to the Pre-War Period
Arthur Waldron, Foreign Policy Research Institute
What a Nuclear Launch in North Korea Might Look Like
V. Narang & A. Panda, WOTR
100 Days of Pointless Arab Self-Destruction
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
Are the Kurds About to Spark a War?
Micah Halpern, Observer
The Genie of Kurdish Independence
Faisal Al Yafai, The National
Iraq's Kurds Play With Fire
Economist
The Worst 1st Year of Foreign Policy Ever
Melvyn Leffler, Foreign Policy
Trump's Blunt Fearful Rant at the U.N.
Julian Borger, Guardian
Trump's Speech: Pro-U.N. and America First
Judith Miller, Fox News
Donald Trump’s War Doctrine Debuts on the World Stage
Robin Wright, New Yorker
A Radical Rebuke of Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy
Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
A Swedish Student, Undercover With the Alt-Right
Jesse Singal, NY Times
Mexico Earthquake Kills Hundreds
Kirk Semple, Paulina Villegas & Elisabeth Malkin, NYT
Boris Johnson Strikes Back
Tim Montgomerie, London Evening Standard
Capitalism and Democracy, the Odd Couple
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Catalan Independence's Agitator-in-Chief
Diego Torres, Politico EU
The American Military's Repetition-Compulsion Complex
Ann Jones, TomDispatch
What Total Destruction of North Korea Means
Kori Schake, The Atlantic
Thursday, September 21
Wanted: Russia Experts, No Expertise Required
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
In Poland, a Face-Off With Many Mirrors
Piotr Buras, RealClearWorld
The Constraints That Define Donald Trump
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
How Long Can Labour's Uneasy Brexit Truce Hold?
Jim Pickard, Financial Times
The New Tory Brexit Battle Will Be the Bloodiest Yet
James Forsyth, Spectator
5 Things to Know About the Referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan
Kaplan & Mardini, WP
A Referendum in Catalonia? Yes, But Not Like This
Iñigo Dominguez, El Pais
What Catalonia Can - and Cannot - Change
Holger Schmieding, The Globalist
Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish Referendum Dilemma
Chris Deerin, New Statesman
New Zealand's Election: Winds of Change
Robert Ayson, Lowy Interpreter
Still Hungry Like the Wolfgang
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Angela Merkel Is the World’s Leading Eco-Vandal
George Monbiot, Guardian
Ideas Are Getting More Expensive to Find
Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen & Webb, Vox EU
Nationalism Without Isolationism: Trump’s U.N. Triumph
Benny Avni, New York Post
The World Now Knows How Weak the U.S. President Is
Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
How Rex Tillerson Failed the State Department
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Trump Dumps Truman
Max Boot, USA Today
Friday, September 22
Will America and Russia Change Middle East Politics?
Seth Frantzman, Nat'l Interest
Germany's Far-Right Populists Have an Infighting Problem
Lisa Hagen, The Atlantic
Will Germany Stop Being Ashamed of Nazis?
J. Lester Feder & Felix Huesmann, BF
Brexit Is Britain's Gift to the World
Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Why Donald Trump Wants Tiny Nukes
Jeffrey Lewis, Foreign Policy
India-Japan Relations: Strong and Getting Stronger
Shashank Joshi, War on the Rocks
The Russians Just Test-Fired an ICBM
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
What Sanders Gets Right in Foreign Policy Speech
Daniel Larison, Amer. Conservative
Sanders Has No Clue How to Make His Foreign Policy Vision Real
J. Williams, Vox
Puncturing Any Remaining Myths About Vietnam Conflict
Glenn Garvin, Reason
Still Waiting on a Peace Dividend
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Is A George W. Trump Foreign Policy Sustainable?
Robert Tracinski, Federalist
Burmese Society Slipping Into an Abyss
Laignee Barron & Eli Meixler, WP Review
Two Mexico City Quakes, Two Very Different Responses
Agustín Barrios Gómez, LAT
Trump Hits the Right Notes on Cuba and Venezuela
A. Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
The Forgotten Drone of WWII
Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics
The Last Hurdle for Ukraine’s Recovery
Anders Aslund, Project Syndicate
Saturday, September 23
Angela Merkel’s Great Escape
James Traub, Foreign Policy
Merkel Should Avoid Another Grand Coalition
Sudha David-Wilp, RealClearWorld
The Stakes as Germany Votes
Leopold Traugott, Open Europe
15 Must-Reads on Germany’s General Election
Andrew Gray, Politico EU
U.S. Sea Power Has a Role in the Baltic
Bruce Stubbs, Proceedings
How Sweden Is Balancing Its Security in the Baltics
Anna Wieslander, Atlantic Council
Learning Lessons From Zapad 2017
John Deni, Carnegie Europe
Corruption in Latin America: Taking Stock
D. Lipton, A. Werner & C. Goncalves, IMF
Three Myths About Catalonia's Independence Movement
F. de Borja Lasheras, ECFR
Democrats Aren’t Ready For Trump’s First War
Graham Vyse, New Republic
How the North Korean Threat Is Seoul's Problem
Katharine H.S. Moon, Brookings
Israel’s Lamentable Temple Mount Appeasement
Ben Weingarten, Claremont
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