Week of February 19, 2018 Archives

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Monday, February 19
Israel Is Tight-Rope Walking Around Another Devastating Conflict
A. Ahronheim, JP
What Is Vladimir Putin Up To?
Tobin Harshaw, BloombergView
Can the German Navy Be Saved?
John Beckner & Helmoed Heitman, RealClearDefense
Russian Meddling Was a Drop in an Ocean of American-made Discord
NY Times
Afrin: Syria 'Sending Fighters to Help Kurds Against Turkey'
BBC News
China’s Step Into the Maelstrom of the Middle East
James M. Dorsey, East Asia Forum
All Eyes on North Korea
Jenna McLaughlin, Foreign Policy
India Looks to Build Military Presence in Seychelles, Countering China
CNN
China’s Not the Only Target If U.S. Imposes Steep Tariffs
J. L. Shapiro, Geopolitical F.
After the Protests, Iranian Anger Still Simmers
Barbara Slavin, American Conservative
'Bad Guy' Russia Emerges As Central Player in Western Diplomacy
Reuters
Russia's Shadowy World of Military Contractors
Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times
Egyptians Divided Over Army's Foray Into Culture
Khalid Hassan, Al-Monitor
Polish Leader Denies Being a Holocaust Revisionist
Avi Selk, Washington Post
U.S. Revives Concerns About European Defense Plans
Steven Erlanger, New York T.
Tuesday, February 20
Netherlands Becoming a Narco-state, Warn Dutch Police
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian
The Chinese Century?
Hal Brands, The National Interest
What Trump Needs to Know About Iranians
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Al-Monitor
France: More Bucks for Your Bang
David Ritchie, Lowy Interpreter
Is the World Actually Getting … Better?
Isaac Chotiner, Slate
Syria’s Erupting Fault Lines
Mona Yacoubian, Defense One
Vietnamisation in Space: America Withdraws From ISS
Morris Jones, Lowy Interpreter
Syria Rebel Leader Says New 'Holocaust' Underway
AP
European Security in the Trump Era
Carl Bildt, The Strategist (ASPI)
What the World's Top 10 Tech Firms Have in Common
Amir Mizroch, Forbes
An Essential Alliance: NATO and the Nuclear Sharing Bond
Daniel Marriott, UK Def. J.
North Korea Poised to Launch Large-scale Cyberattacks
Anna Fifield, Washington Post
In the SCS, U.S. and U.K. Navy Deployments Won’t Change Anything
Geopolitical F.
The Nuclear Posture Review and Russian ‘De-Escalation'
Olga Oliker & Andrey Baklitskiy, War on the Rocks
South Korea and U.S. Expected to Hold Military Exercises
Bryan Harris, Financial Times
Wednesday, February 21
What If Kim Jong Un Decides to Bloody America’s Nose First?
M. P. Dempsey, WotR
The Next ‘Korea Problem’
Aram Hur, Washington Post
Is China Really Threatening the U.S. With Nuclear Weapons?
Doug Tsuruoka, Asia T.
In Syria, Alliances Shift Again
Xander Snyder, Geopolitical Futures
Rex Tillerson Babbles in Beirut While Middle East War Looms
Tony Badran, Tablet Magazine
Stakes Rise in Turkey's Afrin Assault As Pro-assad Militia Arrive
Reuters
Scottish Tories Sign Brexit Letter to PM
BBC News
Russia Claims U.S. Coalition 'Mystery Helicopters' Supplying Arms to ISIS-K
WZ
AI: The Saviour of Mankind or the End of the World?
Chris Graham, Independent
North Korea Dropped Out of Meeting With Pence at Last Minute
New York Times
Europe’s Sanctions-Blocking Threats Are Empty
Richard Goldberg, Foreign Policy
Despite Progress on Paper, Turkey, Us Still Leagues Apart
Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
After Zuma, a New Start for South Africa Will Be Easier Said Than Done
WPR
Polish Minister Sees 'Catharsis' in New Holocaust Law
Pawel Sobczak, et al., USN
Al Qaida Aims to Undermine Fragile Peace in Mali
Bennett Seftel, The Cipher Brief
Thursday, February 22
The Rise of Anti-Liberalism
Shadi Hamid, The Atlantic
The New Separatism
William Lind, The American Conservative
It's Australia's Turn in the Muck of Political Tribalism
Daniel Moss, Bloomberg View
Toxic Partisanship Has Turned Intel Oversight on Its Head
John McLaughlin, Ozy
What Iraq's Reconstruction Conference Revealed
Ellen Laipson, World Politics Review
Iraq Needs a Political and Financial Rebuild
Meir Javedanfar, CGTN
Italy's Election Could Change Everything
Scott MacDonald, National Interest
China's Strategy of Economic Conquest
Michel De Grandi, Les Echos
A Lesson on Immigration From Pablo Neruda
Ariel Dorfman, New York Times
Islam and the French State
Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal
Bosnia: A Model For European-Style Islam
Dzevada Susko, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
No Peace After ISIS
Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
The ISIS Threat Endures
Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
Is Russia Europe's Biggest Threat?
Judy Dempsey et al, Carnegie Europe
Vladimir Putin’s Parallel State
Maxim Trudolyubov, Kennan Institute
N. Korean Sport Diplomacy: An Event Where Everyone Loses
R. Huish, Conversation
Friday, February 23
Merkel Created Germany’s Far Right
Fredrik Erixon, Spectator
The World After McMaster
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
America's Leaderless Foreign Policy Has Hit a Dead End
Hal Brands, Bloomberg View
The Munich Conference Grapples with America's Burden Shedding
N. Gvosdev, TNI
How to Downsize Russia in the Balkans
Filip Vojvodic-Medic, German Marshall Fund
Yet Another Threat to the EU
Mike Scrafton, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Chequers Brexit Talks - a Happy Ending?
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
Tories Seem to Find a Brexit Compromise
George Parker, Financial Times
Russiagate Targets the Left
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin
Teaching in a Time of Wars
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch
Putin Sows Chaos Ahead of Mexican, Colombian Elections
John Tures, Observer
A Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
Shannon O'Neil, Council on Foreign Relations
Mateship Is More Important Than Ever
Malcolm Turnbull, USA Today
Give Congo Back to the Congolese
Helen Epstein, New York Review of Books
Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah
Mara Karlin, Brookings Institution
Trudeau's Trip to India Is a Total Disaster
Barkha Dutt, Washington Post
Saturday, February 24
Understanding Eastern Ghouta in Syria
Aron Lund, IRIN
Eastern Ghouta: A Terrible Account to Settle
Hussein Ibish, The National
Turkey's March on Manbij Stalled by Reality
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
America’s IR Schools Are Broken
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Cold War II
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
Don't Count Bibi Out - Yet
Bret Stephens, New York Times
Another Entry on Merkel's List of Failures
Marian Tupy, CapX
The Rise of Britain's Polite Extremist
Martin Fletcher, New Statesman
Brexit Tortures English Language, Opens the Door For Corbyn
J. Freedland, Guardian
Patriotic, Moderate Labour Is Dead and Buried
Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail
Is ‘Collusion with Russia’ Over?
Andrew McCarthy, National Review
Why Rick Gates Pleaded Guilty to "Conspiracy Against the U.S."
D. Matthews, Vox
More of the Same in Romania
Bogdan Neagu, Euractiv
Language as a Soft Power Tool in Central Asia
Anna Tiido, Intersection Project
A Fuss Over Freemasons in Africa
Economist


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