Week of May 28, 2018 Archives

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Monday, May 28
How Liberals Ushered In the Age of the Strongman
John Gray, New Statesman
A Call for Realism in Europe
Elmar Hellendoorn, National Interest
Will Italy's Next Elections Be a Referendum on Democracy?
J. Forsyth, Spectator
In Italy, an 'Unprecedented Political and Institutional Clash'
Giada Zampano, Pol. EU
Italy Sets Stage For Fierce Battle Over EU
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Britain's Big Societal Squeeze
Peter Goodman, New York Times
Ditch the Declinism
Oliver Wiseman, CapX
Erdogan Is Failing Economics 101
Borzou Daragahi, Foreign Policy
Iraq's New Government Will Again Need Iran's Blessing
Al Monitor
Oldest European Tree Is Having a Growth Spurt
Sandrine Ceurstemont, Nat'l Geographic
Tuesday, May 29
Europe Is Reaping Its Own Bitter Harvests
Yanis Varoufakis, Guardian
Europe’s Losing Streak
Matthew Kaminski, Politico EU
The Global Elite Shove Italy's Voters Aside
Nicholas Farrell, Spectator
Italy's Unyielding Mattarella
Hans-Jurgen Schlamp, Der Spiegel
Italy's Stillborn Government
Economist
The Post-War Order Is Over
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
New Evidence of China's Political Re-Education Campaign
Adrian Zenz, Jamestown
The Killa in Manila
Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
The Way Out of Argentina’s New Crisis
Andres Velasco, Project Syndicate
Does Modi Deserve a Second Term?
Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg View
Can South Africa celebrate Africa Month?
Sharon Ekambaram, Mail and Guardian
Anger Spreads as Syria Leads Global Disarmament Body
Nick Cumming-Bruce, NYT
U.S. and China Take Trade Friction to a New Level
Takashi Imamura, Japan Times
Iran-Israel Restraint May Hinge on Nuclear Deal
Saeid Jafari, Al Monitor
Middle Eastern Monarchs Look at Trumps and See Themselves
Steven Cook, FP
How U.S. Demands Will Roil Iran's Domestic Politics
Mohsen Milani, WP Review
Wednesday, May 30
Bad News For Supporters of Democracy in Latin America
A. Oppenheimer, Herald
War Financing and Democracies
Sarah Kreps, War on the Rocks
A Sense of History in the Making in South Korea
E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker
Duterte's Dilemma
Richard Javad Heydarian, National Interest
The New Europeans
Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review of Books
4 Takeaways From the EU’s Big Regional Cash Shakeup
Lili Bayer, Politico EU
What Will It Take for Syrian Refugees to Return Home?
Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs
The Complicated Geopolitics of Oil Sanctions on Iran
Amy Myers Jaffe, CFR
Ethiopia Already Is the 'China of Africa'
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
Putin Critic Briefly Detained in Spain on Interpol Warrant
Shearing & Di Stefano, BF
China’s Looming Financial Crisis
Stephen Joske, Lowy Interpreter
How did Moqtada al-Sadr Become Iraq's Premier Statesman?
T. Cambanis, Globe
U.S. Fantasies of Islamized Britain Do Matter
Hugo Rifkind, Times of London
An Italian Crisis Would Be Limited to Italy Alone
Holger Schmieding, The Globalist
Italy's Pain Could Be Britain's Gain
Stephen Glover, Daily Mail
Thursday, May 31
The World Wants You to Think Like a Realist
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Is China Attempting to Torpedo the Kim-Trump Summit?
Doug Bandow, Nat'l Interest
A Vision For War Without End in Myanmar
Anthony Davis, Asia Times
Moscow's Demons
Peter Pomerantsev, The American Interest
In Italy, an End-Around of Democracy
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
A Wakeup Call For Canadian Sovereignty
John Bruk, Open Canada
Food Security: The Overlooked National Security Issue
Elisabeth Braw, Defense One
Don't Blame Italy's Populists - Blame the Euro
Matthew Lynn, Spectator
Imposing Eurozone 'as It Is' on Italy Is Not the Answer
Valero & Rodrigues, Euractiv
Is Italy the New Greece?
Jeff Spross, The Week
Lessons From the Ghosts of Failed Summits Past
R. Malley & A.D. Miller, Politico
Making the Most of Asia's Aging Populations
Lee Jong-Wha, Japan Times
The Fake Death That Caught an Alleged Assassin
Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Ukraine Just Faked a Journo's Death. Will It Be Worth It?
Anne Applebaum, WaPo
Forging a Better Strategy on Iran
Ed Feulner, Washington Times
The True Scope of the Disaster in Puerto Rico
Vann Newkirk, The Atlantic
5 Takeaways From Colombia's Election
Mat Youkee, Americas Quarterly
Friday, June 1
Italy’s Establishment Runs Out of Tricks
Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
The Growing Dangers of the New Nuclear-Arms Race
Eric Schlosser, New Yorker
Poroshenko and Ukraine's Proliferating Populists
Andrew Wilson, ECFR
Who is Kim Jong Un?
Elisabeth Eaves, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Could an Oligarch Build a Democracy in Moldova?
Dumitru Alaiba, GMF
The Trade Thoughts of Mao Tse Trump
Washington Examiner
Trump Cuts Off Trade to Spite His Face
Daniel Ikenson, Cato Institute
How to Win a Trade War
Peter Morici, Washington Times
Eurozone Gets Another Reason to Reform Now
Isabel Schnabel & Pierre Brancon, PolEU
Trump Has Put More Tariffs on Allies Than on China
Heather Long, Washington Post
Macron Has Compelling Ideas, But He's on His Own
Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
Persecuted in Britain For Drawing Attention to ‘Grooming Gangs’
D. Murray, NRO
We Are Rushing Forward Into the Past
Antonio Garcia Martinez, Wired
India, Ever the Reluctant U.S. Ally
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
Turkish Elections: An Ugly Surprise For Erdogan?
Barry Stocker, Notes on Liberty
Trump Inherits Obama's Africa Policy
Scott Beauchamp, Arc
10 Longest Bridges in the World
Brandon Christensen, RealClearHistory
Netanyahu’s Dilemma on Hamas
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
Saturday, June 2
Moscow Updates Playbook on Making Israel, Iran Happy
Maxim Suchkov, Al Monitor
Is Iran and Russia's Ad Hoc Alliance Unraveling?
Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
Iran Wants to Stay in Syria Forever
Borzou Daragahi, Foreign Policy
Putin's Secret Services
Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs
Herbert Hoover’s Ghost
Bret Stephens, New York Times
War Inside Trump Trade Team
Ben White, Andrew Restuccia & Nancy Cook, Politico
It's a Lovely Day for a Trade War
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Why Puerto Rico's Death Toll Is So Much Higer
Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Conversation
5 Takeaways From the Overthrow of Mariano Rajoy
Diego Torres, Politico EU
Tsipras’s Italian Conundrum
Notis Papadopoulos, Kathimerini
America’s Exceptional Opportunity With India
David Mulford, Hoover Institution
Rohingya Rape Survivors Face a Harrowing Choice
Shashank Bengali, LA Times
Can Pedro Sanchez Tackle the Corruption Plaguing Spain?
G. Tremlett, Guardian
Mindanao’s Insurgencies Take an Explosive Turn
Michael Hart, The Diplomat


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