Week of December 18, 2017 Archives

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Monday, December 18
How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook
Josh Meyer, Politico
The Extremist Threat to Asian Growth
Gwen Robinson, Nikkei Asian Review
Mohammed bin Salman Doesn't Want to Talk About Jerusalem
R Satloff, Wash. Inst.
How Does Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Affect Iran?
Al Monitor
The Myth of Innocent Women Jihadists
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
Decision Time on Iran
Matthew Continetti, National Review
Britain's Uncertain Military Future
Lawrence Freedman, Financial Times
Alcohol as a Driving Force in History
James Walton, Spectator
Why I Never Saw the Corbyn Surge Coming
John Rentoul, Independent
NATO Is Failing to Project Stability
John Manza & Lelia Rousselet, German Marshall Fund
Sino-Japanese Ties Bound to Remain Stalled
Hitoki Den, Japan Times
Can Environmental Lawsuits in China Succeed?
Stanley Lubman, China File
Austria’s (Not-So) Pro-European Government
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
As Trump's America Strides, Canada Stumbles Along
Conrad Black, National Post
To Secede or Not to Secede: Learning from Catalonia
Steven Hill, The Globalist
Tuesday, December 19
Venezuela's a Disaster, Yet Socialism's Popularity Soars
Jonah Goldberg, LA Times
Chile Gives Sebastian Pinera a Second Chance
John Londregan, Weekly Standard
Decoding Trump's National Security Strategy
Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
Trump's Surprisingly Normal National Security Strategy
James Stavridis, Bloom. View
'America First' Just Got Very Confusing
John Hudson & Vera Bergengruen, BuzzFeed
A Confident National Security Strategy
Jerry Hendrix, National Review
The Terrible Timing of Trump's Foreign Policy Strategy
Harry Kazianis, The Week
The NSS and the China Challenge
Mike Green, Foreign Policy
Stumbling Toward Multiple Wars
Joshua Keating, Slate
In Austria, Europe’s Latest Battle Is Brewing
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
How Italy Turned Against the EU
Naomi O'Leary, Politico EU
The Kremlin Blocks Opposition Websites
Vladimir Kara-Murza, World Affairs Journal
Wednesday, December 20
A Pessimist’s Guide to 2028
Flavia Krause-Jackson, Adrian Leung & John Fraher, Bloomberg
The Peace Process Generation Passes Into History
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
The EU Must Recognize the Palestinian State
Javier Solana, Project Syndicate
Palestinians and Israelis Do Not Need U.S. Approval
Hen Mazzig, Jerusalem Post
The Weaponization of Tedium Is Putin’s New Strategy
Mark Galeotti, Moscow Times
Trump Security Strategy a Study in Contrasts
Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
A Void on National Security, But Some Nice Words
A.D. Miller & R. Sokolsky, USA Today
Strategic Patience Is Dead — Long Live America First
Sebastian Gorka, The Hill
Is There Ever Such a Thing as a Good Coup?
Deshani Gunathilake, RealClearWorld
'Vichy Republicans?' The Label Doesn't Fit
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
Prime Minister Corbyn Would Set the Stage For a British Trump
James Bickerton, CapX
Brussels to Trigger ‘Nuclear Option’ Against Poland
De la Baume & Herszenhorn, Pol.
Slovenia - the Happy Country That Should Be Happier
Matthew Engel, New Statesman
The Luther Legend
Marilynne Robinson, New Republic
How Canada Fits Into Tillerson's Plan For North Korea
Paul Wells, Maclean's
Thursday, December 21
Putin’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment in Syria
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
In a Chess Game with Putin, Gdansk Is Our Queen
Jerry Hendrix, National Review
Populism Is Failing
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Populism Is a Problem Elitist Technocrats Won't Solve
Sheri Berman, Foreign Policy
Hungarian Left Considers a Far-Right Alliance
Lili Bayer, Politico EU
When the Lights Go Out: Cyber Threats to the Electrical Grid
Karen Weigert, RCWorld
Who Is South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa?
Thapelo Tselapedi, CapX
We Need to Talk About Jacob Zuma
Vukani Mde, Mail and Guardian
The New Leading Parties as Catalonia Votes
Miquel Noguer, El Pais
Trump's Doctrine: Principled Realism Comes to the Fore
Roger Kimball, Am Greatness
Strategic Confusion
Fred Kaplan, Slate
What Bitcoin's Rise Says About Social Trust
Tim Wu, New York Times
Inside One of Canada's Most Secretive Agencies
Richard Poplak, The Walrus
Japan Has Figured Out Factories
Michael Schuman, Bloomberg View
What Does the Triumph of Corsica's Nationalists Mean?
Andre Fazi, WP Review
Friday, December 22
Donbas Blues, The Forgotten Conflict In Eastern Ukraine
Pierre Avril, Worldcrunch
Catalan Election Underscores Deep Divisions
El Pais
5 Takeaways From the Catalan Election
Diego Torres, Politico EU
Nikki Haley’s Right: Time to Start ‘Taking Names’ at the U.N.
Jonathan Tobin, NRO
Limited Strikes on North Korea Are Past Due
David Allan Adams, Proceedings
Terrorist Networks Eye Bitcoin
Yana Fanusie, The Cipher Brief
Maybe the Free World Doesn't Need a Leader
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could Go Under
Michael Kimmelman, New York Times
The East-West Animosity in the EU Smolders On
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Taking the Measure of America's Powers of Attraction
Bruce Stokes, RealClearWorld
Beyond Liberal Islam
Zaheer Kazmi, Aeon
Authoritarians to the Left and Right
Ronald Bailey, Reason
The Academy Judges Civilization and Finds It Wanting
New Criterion
The U.S. Is Decadent and Depraved
James Traub, Foreign Policy
Saturday, December 23
Surveying the Ruins of Merkelism
Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel
If You're Not a Democracy, You're Not European Anymore
Jan-Werner Mueller, FP
Brexit Must Be More Than a Game of Trolls
Alex Massie, CapX
Where Is Trump Headed on North Korea?
Nikolas Gvosdev, National Interest
Algeria Takes Independent Approach to Qatar Crisis
Giorgio Cafiero, Al Monitor
25 Years On,Czechs and Slovaks Still Oppose Breakup
Slovak Spectator
Putin Aeterna?
Anton Barbashin, Intersection Project
Trump's National Security Game Changer
David Goldman, PJ Media
Trump Is Right About Jerusalem, But...
Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
Anti-Israel General Assembly Should Feel Shamed
Benny Avni, New York Post
Trump’s Jerusalem Move Reignites Arab Youth
Mohamed Kouta, Cairo Review
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Susan Glasser, Politico
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