Week of January 29, 2018 Archives

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Monday, January 29
Is U.S. Bailing on Syrian Kurds?
Al Monitor
Italy's Political Threat to the EU and Investors
Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times
The Breakdown of Institutional Power
Katherine Miller, BuzzFeed
Mount Tory is Ready to Blow Over Brexit
Polly Toynbee, Guardian
Victim Status Is All That Counts
Daniel Hannan, Washington Examiner
Europe’s Multicultural Fears Hide a Huge Success Story
Doug Saunders, G&M
Could the Odyssey Have Been the Work of a Woman?
A.E. Stallings, Spectator
A Crucial Juncture For Global Trade
Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations
Has a Trumpian Grand Strategy Emerged?
Simon Reich & Peter Dombrowski, WOTR
Trump Shared a Vision of Global Economic Progress
Gary Cohn, CNN
Ukraine's Tunisia Moment
Diane Francis, The American Interest
The U.S. Wades Back Into the Quagmire
Fred Kaplan, Slate
A Glass of Alsace
Sara Lodge, Weekly Standard
America Trapped in the Now
Masha Gessen, New Yorker
The Perils of Protectionism
George Will, National Review
Tuesday, January 30
Growing Economies Should Bring Little Cheer
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The East Germans of the 21st Century
David Brooks, New York Times
Trump Confronts Elites With Realism
Peter Morici, Washington Times
No, China Doesn't Want Confrontation in the South China Sea
James Holmes, TNI
Germany, Waiting for GroKo
Derek Scally, Berlin Policy Journal
The U.S. Has Never Been Britain's Special Friend
Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail
Iran’s Regional Allies Wary of Protest Aftermath
Al Monitor
Iran Is Losing Its Jihad on Tobacco
Paul French, Foreign Policy
How Can America Change Pakistani Behavior?
Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
Was Corbyn's 'Youthquake' All Hot Air?
Stephen Bush, New Statesman
France Moves Back Into Diplomatic Limelight
Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel
The World Bank Is Searching for Meaning
Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
Fixing the World Bank
Jeff Spross, The Week
Kremlin and U.S. Circle Each Other in Warming Arctic
Levi Maxey, Cipher Brief
Vietnam Is Less Sure of Its Bet on U.S. Ties
Joshua Kurlantzick, World Politics Review
Wednesday, January 31
How We Got Donald Trump: A History of the Post-Cold War Era
A Bacevich, TD
Europeans Want Direct Democracy
Bruce Stokes, RealClearWorld
The Zeitgeist of Che Guevara
Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Russia's Election: Why the Show Must Go On
Stephen Blank, Lowy Interpreter
In SOTU, Trump Goes Where Kim Most Fears
Gordon Chang, Daily Beast
Giving North Korea a ‘Bloody Nose’ Carries Huge Risk to Americans
Victor Cha, WP
Is Trump Turning the U.S. Into the Biggest Loser?
Tridivesh Singh Maini, NOL
Canada and Mexico Prepare for Life After NAFTA
K. Johnson & B. Allen-Ebrahimian, FP
Struggling to Breath Under the Weight of Turkish Oppression
A. Gardner, EUObs
Lebanon: About to Blow?
Janine di Giovanni, New York Review of Books
African Deportations Stir Religious Controversy in Israel
Emma Green, The Atlantic
The Odd Tale of the Bulgarian Oligarchs and the EU
Ivan Dikov, Pax Glocalica
Romania, Out of the EU Eye, Backslides on Corruption
Hannah Thoburn, WA Journal
Russia and Europe, Putin's Ambitions Have Roots in History
M. Sturmer, Worldcrunch
Iran Threatens Mideast Stability
Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Financial Times
What Role Will Moscow Assume in Yemen's Civil War?
Kirill Semenov, Al Monitor
Thursday, February 1
Poland's Holocaust Law Seeks to Weaponize Memory
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloom. View
European Democracy Is Changing, Not Dying
John O'Sullivan, Spectator
How Eastern European Populism is Different
Slawomir Sierakowski, Project Syndicate
The Legacy of the EU's Push Into Central Europe
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Size Doesn’t Matter for Spy Agencies Anymore
Mark Galeotti, Foreign Policy
Britain's Very Public Nervous Breakdown
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Where Is the Next Generation of African Leaders?
Stephen Chan, CapX
The Damage to Democracy in Honduras
Anne Hobson & Lourdes Bautista, RCWorld
Britain's Weakened Clout on View in China
Economist
Trump’s Middle East ‘Deal of Century’ Coming Into Focus
Geoffrey Aronson, TAC
Europe's Migration Crisis is Anything But Over
Rachel Rizzo, National Interest
Israel’s Russia Gambit
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Liberals Love Nationalist Ideas, Just Not the Label
Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Trump's Volk und Vaterland
Roger Cohen, New York Times
How Not to Design Russia Sanctions
Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic
Friday, February 2
Who Owns Auschwitz?
Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz
Israel-Poland Crisis Deepens
Tamara Zieve, Jerusalem Post
Europe’s Defining Choice on Poland
Pawel Zerka, European Council on Foreign Relations
Grand Strategy From Obama to Trump
Hal Brands, Francis Gavin & Ryan Evans, WOTR
China Divides Britain and the U.S.
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
China's Baltic Incrementalism
Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, FPRI
A Parched Cape Town Counts Down to Day Zero
Stratfor
The Limits of a Limited Strike
Cmdr. Robert Watts, Proceedings
In Afghanistan's Unwinnable War, What's the Best Loss to Hope For?
M Fisher, NYT
Assessing the Afghan War - Honestly
Derek Davison, LobeLog
The U.S. Risks Losing an Arctic Cold War
Peter Apps, Reuters
Israel Is Willing to Enforce Lebanon Redline
David Makovsky, Washington Institute
The Predictable Liberal Response to Pence
Isi Leibler, Israel Hayom
Bangladesh's New Generation of Militants
Siddharthya Roy, The Diplomat
In Venezuela, Life Is Better in Prison
Jason Mitchell, Spectator
Where Dutch Directness Comes From
Olga Mecking, BBC
Advancing Separatists Could Restore South Yemen
Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor
Liberia's Economy Is Broken, Our Government Is Broke
Pres. George Weah, N.African
How Europe Can Help Itself and the World
Robert Malley, The Atlantic
Saturday, February 3
Bleaker Than an Episode of Black Mirror: China's Surveillance State
Millward, NYT
Why the Vatican Seems so Eager For a Deal With China
John Allen, Crux
Australia Weighs Its Relationships With the U.S. and China
Allison Fedirka, GPF
Blue Skies and a Booming Economy: China Can Have Both
James Borton, RCWorld
David Brooks’s Simplistic Immigration Argument
Fred Bauer, National Review
Trump's Crusade
Victor Davis Hanson, Defining Ideas
The Kremlin’s Revision of Russia’s Revolutionary Legacy
Larisa Deriglazova, Kennan
Summit Exposes Limitations of Moscow's Syria Policy
Cengiz Candar, Al Monitor
The Nunes Memo Is a Flop
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
The House Did Its Duty With Nunes Memo
Daniel McCarthy, National Interest
The Impact of 'Global Gag Rule' Is Becoming Clear
Casey Quackenbush, Time
What Happens When Cape Town Turns Off the Taps?
Jonathan Watts, Guardian
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