Week of October 16, 2017 Archives

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Monday, October 16
The Real Reason China Has Built a Massive Military
Harry Kazianis, National Interest
How Donbas Will, and Will Not, Be Won
Mark Galeotti, ECFR
How Stalin Hid Ukraine's Famine
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic
The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci
Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker
Trump on Iran: Tough Talk, Little Action
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Trump Leaves Congress to Fix His Iran Mess
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
Nigeria's Next Security Threat
Ayo Awokoya, Raddington Report
Uzbekistan in the Starting Blocks
James Durso, RealClearWorld
The Problem With Hungary’s Toothless Opposition
Tibor Fischer, Spectator
The British Spy Who Drank His Way Across the Americas
Christopher Dickey, DB
The Trump Administration Just Stabbed the Kurds in the Front
Michael Totten, WAJ
The Demise of Dollar Diplomacy?
Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate
In Africa, Jihadists See a Chance to Expand
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Brexit Will Hurt the Tories For a Long Time
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
Germany and France Push Harder Line on Brexit Talks
Barigazzi & De la Baume, PolEU
Belgium Should Flock to Macron's European Vision
Andre Flahaut, Euractiv
Great Power Competition Is Back in Africa
Steven Metz, World Politics Review
The Death of Liberalism in Japan
Koichi Nakano, New York Times
Meet Janet Adu, 'President' of the Slums of Ghana
M. Fauchier-Delavigne, Worldcrunch
Tuesday, October 17
Deadly Overconfidence on North Korea
Ankit Panda & Vipin Narang, War on the Rocks
The Case for Containing North Korea
Harry Kazianis, National Interest
There Is a Bigger, Better Iran Deal to Be Had
YJ Fischer, USA Today
Interpreting the Fall of Islamic State Governance
Aaron Zelin, Washington Institute
Trump and Kim Madmen? Not So Fast
Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative
In Francoland
Antonio Muñoz Molina, El Pais
The Man Behind China's Shadow Banking Curtain
Kate Bohner, Observer
Can Trump Get Congress To Rewrite Iran Deal?
Michael Wilner, FiveThirtyEight
Can Anyone End the Palestinian Civil War?
Grant Rumley & Neri Zilber, Foreign Policy
Trump's Iran Policy: A Good Start
Michael Ledeen, PJ Media
The Populist Right Gains More European Ground
John Fund, National Review
America the Timid and Selfish?
Susan Glasser, Politico
A Kurdish State Is Inevitable
Mohammad Amjad Hossain, Jerusalem Post
Time for Germany to Step Out of the Shadows
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Wednesday, October 18
China Is Quietly Reshaping the World
Anja Manuel, The Atlantic
What to Do About Turkey?
Fredrik Wesslau, European Council on Foreign Relations
Authoritarian Cryptocurrencies Are Coming
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
The Death of Languages
Rebecca Roache, Aeon
The Caliphate Is Gone, But the ISIS Franchise Lives On
Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz
Trump Is Playing with Fire in the Middle East
Der Spiegel
Iran's Hand and Iraq's Kirkuk Offensive
Seth Frantzman, National Interest
The Global Consensus Against the Iraqi Kurds
Kamran Bokhari, Geopolitical Futures
Keep Dreaming, Kurdistan
Dexter Filkins, New Yorker
A War Plan Orange For Climate Change
Cmdr. Timothy McGeehan, Proceedings
The Spirit of Centrism
Bo Winegard, Quillette
Life in Limbo: Inside Bishkek's Illegal 'New-Builds'
Peter Leonard, Guardian
Putin's Greatest Weakness May Be Right Here on U.S. Shores
A. Aslund, The Hill
The Fall of Russia's Regional Governors
Natalya Zubarevich, Carnegie Moscow Center
Hurricane Ophelia: The Shape of Things to Come?
John Sweeney, Irish Times
Corbyn Fails Basic Economics
Ryan Khurana, CapX
Thursday, October 19
The Bolsheviks in Beijing
Nick Frisch, Foreign Affairs
First Scotland, Then Catalonia. And Now? Milan and Venice
Elisabetta Povoledo, NYT
What Will Xi Do to Deng’s Legacy?
Sourabh Gupta, East Asia Forum
3 Major Takeaways from Xi Jinping’s Speech
Charlotte Gao, The Diplomat
The French Arrogance Over Brexit Follows a Long Tradition
Robert Tombs, Spectator
Theresa May Must Tell Britain: Brexit Won't Happen
Alastair Campbell, Guardian
Is Democracy in Europe Doomed?
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, New York Review of Books
Lost Honor, and the Baubles by Which Men Are Led
Robert Zaretsky, Forward
The Historical Project Called Iraq Has Failed
Geoffrey Clarfield & Salim Mansur, Nat Post
Beijing Tightens Party Discipline as Xi Rises
John McLaughlin, The Cipher Brief
Driving Forces to Increase Pressure on Venezuela
Moises Rendon, CSIS
This Is What Nuclear Weapons Leave in Their Wake
A. Genova & P. Hatcher-Moore, NG
America Has Become Dispensable in Iraq
Emma Sky, The Atlantic
America Needs a New Strategy to Deter Iran
Marie Donovan, The Hill
Iraq's Shiite Militias Are Just Getting Started
Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy
When the Brexit Revolution Eats Itself
Economist
The Europe Merkel Made
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Friday, October 20
Why Do We Act Like We Know So Much About China's Politics?
Batke & Melton, CF
Who Controls America's China Policy?
Hilton Root, RealClearWorld
In China, a New Political Era Begins
Matthew Massee, Geopolitical Futures
What Does the 19th Party Congress Mean for the PLA?
Timothy Heath, RAND
Remembering War
Robert Kaplan, National Interest
Understanding Disinformation
Dean Jackson, National Endowment for Democracy
Why the United States Needs a 355-Ship Navy Now
Robert O'Brien & Jerry Hendrix, NR
Is Vladimir Putin Losing His Grip?
Anders Aslund, Project Syndicate
We Are in Touching Distance of Agreement
PM Theresa May, Conservative Home
Iran's Very Good Week
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Dealing With an Era of Change in the International Arena
Pres. Vladimir Putin, Kremlin
Alphabet Wants to Reinvent the City, Starting With Toronto
Aarian Marshall, Wired
No End to the Drift Between Turkey and the West
Luigi Scazzieri, CER
The End of Internet Exceptionalism?
Jeremy White, Independent
Back the Iranians Opposing Their Brutal Government
Walid Phares, Fox News
The Spoils of Tourism: Montenegro and UNESCO
Hannah Weber, Balkanist
Kirkuk Was Not an Iranian Defeat of America
Michael Rubin, Washington Examiner
Saturday, October 21
Interview with Sebastian Kurz: 'I Definitely Have a Red Line'
Der Spiegel
Orbiting Jupiter: My Week With Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Carrere, Guardian
Poland Pushes Back Against Putin’s Special War
John Schindler, Observer
Italy Gears Up For Elections. What Does It Mean For Britain?
Enea Desideri, OE
Of Suns, Dragons, and Naval Might
Daniel Stefanus, Proceedings
Why Nothing Was Worse Than the Battle of Stalingrad
Daniel Davis, National Interest
Undoing Correa's Legacy in Ecuador
Soledad Stoessel, The Conversation
Europe Can Learn From Trudeau the Trump-Tamer
Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard
Catalonia: The Gravity of the Situation
David Alandete, El Pais
The Obama Administration’s Uranium One Scandal
Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Time to Stop Being Deferential to the Banks
Dairmaid Ferriter, Irish Times
Implications of the New IRGC Sanctions
Annie Fixler, FDD
A Confession of Negligence on Russia
Susan Hennessey & Benjamin Wittes, For. Policy
A Suspected Network Of 13,000 Twitter Bots Pushed Brexit
James Ball, BuzzFeed
Here's How to Pull Turkey Back From the Brink
James Stavridis, Bloomberg View
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