Week of February 5, 2018 Archives

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Monday, February 5
German Politics Is Tilting Toward European Federalism
Wolfgang Munchau, FT
Italy Can't Get No Respect
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
A. Mitchell & L. Diamond, Atlantic
Putting the Squeeze on Iran via Hezbollah
Kimberly Dozier, The Cipher Brief
The Strait at the Center of the World
Bruno Macaes, Politico
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
Oliver Wiseman, CapX
Nuclear Posture Review: Here’s What You Need to Know
Atlantic Council
Why Is Nicaragua's Homicide Rate So Comparatively Low?
R. Lovato, The Nation
Tillerson Praises Monroe Doctrine, Warns About China
R. Gramer & K. Johnson, FP
The White Darkness: A Trek Across Antarctica
David Grann, New Yorker
Pakistan's Water Crisis Threatens to Overflow
Scott Moore, National Interest
The Dress That Ignited the Slave Trade
Caroline London, The Week
Command and Control in the Nuclear Posture Review
James Acton, War on the Rocks
New U.S. Nuclear Plan Aimed Squarely at Russia
Jamie McIntyre, Wash. Examiner
America’s Crucial Treaty With Russia
John Kerry, Boston Globe
A Dangerous Course Israel Should Avoid
Danny Yatom & Amnon Reshef, New York Times
Tuesday, February 6
Russia's Retaliation For Downed Jet Has Just Begun
Maxim Suchkov, Al Monitor
A New U.S. Defense Strategy For the Future
Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures
Rule by the People Is Better Than Rule by Experts
Sam Haselby, Aeon
Why Gramsci Is the Marxist Thinker For Our Times
George Eaton, New Statesman
Shakespeare Warned About the Dangers of a Political Vacuum
A Marr, Eve Standard
The Benefits of Engaging with China Outweigh Costs and Risk
C. Preble, Nat'l Int.
What Washington Must Do About Turkey and Afrin
Asli Aydintasbas, Washington Post
Why the U.S.-Israel Honeymoon May Not Last Much Longer
D. Pipes, Wash. Times
Russia’s Untapped Arctic Potential
Stanislav Pritchin, Chatham House
What Southern Africa Can Learn About Drought
Andrew Slaughter, The Conversation
They Are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet
Robert Draper, Nat'l Geo.
Social Media Users of the World Unite!
John Thornhill, Financial Times
After 150 Years, Why Does the Meiji Restoration Matter?
Economist
Why Spies and International Organizations Are Natural Allies
Richard Gowan, WPR
A Never-Trump Press in Near Panic Over FBI Memo
P. Buchanan, Amer. Conservative
How Democracies Die, Explained
Ezra Klein, Vox
Wednesday, February 7
Meet the Believers in America's Afghanistan War
Kevin Baron, Defense One
I Supported the Iran Deal. What if It Was a Mistake?
Joshua Keating, Slate
Poland in Denial
Dominique Moisi, Les Echos
It Will Soon Be a Crime to Blame Poland For Holocaust
Feder & Krasnowolski, B-Feed
NATO’s Real Existential Threat: The Surrender of Western Values
W. Smith, TAC
Berlin Before and After the Wall
Christoph Gunkel, Der Spiegel
The EU Seeks to Regain Influence in the Balkans
Financial Times
Brussels to Balkan Aspirants: Change Everything
Florian Eder & Andrew Gray, Pol. EU
Kosovo Serbs and Albanians Should Speak Each Other’s Language
M. Radonjic, BI
The Big Idea For Europe's Liberals
Jan Zielonka, Social Europe
Is This Putin's Utopia?
Joshua Kucera, Coda Story
What’s Good for Russian Gas Is Good for America
Brenda Shaffer, Foreign Policy
Caspian Geopolitics Complicate Energy Projects
Ilgar Gurbanov, Jamestown
VIDEO: China Is Winning the Quantum Computing Race
Tech in Asia
VIDEO: SpaceX Launches Most Powerful Rocket Yet
Al Jazeera
Thursday, February 8
Hijab Protests Expose Iran’s Core Divide
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Israel’s Aims a Show of Power at Hezbollah
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
Turkey's Goals in Afrin Aren't Quite What They Seem
Hassan Hassan, The National
The Truth About Poland's Role in the Holocaust
Edna Friedberg, The Atlantic
We All Contribute to a Nation's Soft Power
Irene Wu, RealClearWorld
Who Is Containing Whom?
Graham Fuller, LobeLog
Justice Without Borders for Venezuela
Ricardo Hausmann, Project Syndicate
Merkel Makes Painful Concessions to Form New Government
Der Spiegel
The Dangers of Cartel Government
Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
India's Call to Democracy
Zorawar Daulet Singh, The Hindu
Canada's Housing Market Flirts With Disaster
Ben McLannahan, Financial Times
Thaw Won't Warm South Koreans to Unity
Andray Abrahamian, Japan Times
17 Reasons to Love Brexit
Anthony Browne, Spectator
China's Trojan Horse to Central and Eastern Europe
Andrew MacDowall, WP Review
Kosovo‘s Path to Independence
Albert Rohan, European Council on Foreign Relations
Rethinking What Winning in Afghanistan Looks Like
Nicholas Grossman, National Review
Friday, February 9
Massacre in Myanmar: One Grave For 10 Rohingya
Wa Lone et al, Reuters
Kenya's Crisis of Legitimacy
Matt Carotenuto, RealClearWorld
Cuba Is Making the Crisis in Venezuela Worse
Jose Cardenas, Foreign Policy
Ukraine's Top Spy Is Pleased With Trump
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
The U.S. and South Korea Now Openly Disagree on North Korea
Josh Rogin, WaPo
Poland Slams the Door on Holocaust Dialogue
Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary
Falcon Heavy Is Making America Great Again
David French, National Review
Turkey and Iran: On a Collision Course
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
What Trudeau's Performative Progressivism Conceals
Molly Roberts, Miami Herald
The Comeback of European Antisemitism
Daniel Mariaschin, Jerusalem Post
Weapons That Forged the U.K.'s Empire
Brandon Christensen, RealClearHistory
Has Israel Grown Too Dependent on the United States?
Charles Freilich, Mosaic
North-South Korea Drama Threatened Olympics 30 Years Ago
Olivia Waxman, Time
Corsica Is a Test of the French Republic's Authority
Tom Wheeldon, CapX
Muslim Voters and the European Left
Rafaela Dancygier, Foreign Affairs
Saturday, February 10
China's Big Plans to Win Its Next War
Jeffrey Engstrom, National Interest
Stop Giving China a Pass on North Korea
Joseph Bosco, RealClearWorld
The Obama-Trump Foreign Policy
Thomas Donnelly & William Kristol, Weekly Standard
How Self-Interest Drives Foreign Aid
Sarah Bermeo, Brookings Institution
The Utopian Temptation at Liberalism's Failure
Timothy Fuller, First Things
Canada's Shallow PM Indulges in Empty Newspeak
John Robson, National Post
At Last, Team Trump Has a Western Hemisphere Policy
Richard Miles, CSIS
A Growing Strategic Gap Between America and Europe?
O. Schmitt & S. Taillat, WOTR
Chinese Police Wear Sunglasses That Can Recognize Faces
Zheping Huang, Quartz
Could the Madman Approach Bring Peace to Korean Peninsula?
J. Heer, New Rep.
Robot Soldiers Can't Replace Human Soldiers
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
In Authoritarian Societies, a Wider #MeToo Movement
John Lloyd, Reuters
Toughing It Out in Cairo
Yasmine El Rashidi, New York Review of Books
Piketty Thinks EU Is Bad For Eastern Europe. He's Half Right.
Leonid Bershidsky, BV
Poland’s Holocaust Denialism Will Come Back to Haunt It
Remi Adekoya, FP
The Holocaust, the Poles, and WWII Memory
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Am. Thinker
Gadhafi's Frozen Funds Aren't Actually Quite Frozen
Giulia Paravicini, Politico EU
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