Week of August 6, 2018 Archives

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Monday, August 6
Australia’s China Reset
John Garnaut, The Monthly
Who Lost China? (The Sequel)
Robert Atkinson, National Review
France's Navy: Political Messengers in the South China Sea
Mathieu Duchatel, SCMP
An American Perspective of US-German Relations
George Friedman, Geo. Futures
Others Will Follow Nicaragua's Path
Oliver Stuenkel, Americas Quarterly
Border Debates Never Account For History and Geopolitics
C. Foster, Houston Chron
Debate Over Asylum Will Define Canada's Next Election
J. Markusoff, Maclean's
Where Europe’s Migrants Are
Hanne Cokelaere, Politico EU
Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace: Seismic Shifts in a Strategic Zone
Carol Pineau, CSIS
Will Congo Go to the Polls—Or Go to War?
Sam Mednick, Foreign Policy
The Elites Refuse to Understand Why Brexit Won
Matthew Goodwin, Quillette
Unionists Had It Very Good Before Brexit
Matthew O'Toole, Irish Times
Is Japan Now a Country of Immigration?
Yunchen Tian & Erin Aeran Chung, For. Affairs
China's Plan For World Conquest? Easy Credit
Brendon Hong, Daily Beast
How to Build a Better Balkans
James Jay Carafano, National Interest
Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where Are All the People?
Emily Feng, Financial Times
Tuesday, August 7
Idlib Is Crucial to Syria's Regime, and Ankara Can't Mediate
Faisal Al Yafai, National
U.S. Turns up Heat on Iran’s Economy
Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Earlier Presidents at Least Knew Iran Was a Trap
John Limbert, Atlantic Council
Why Are Israel's Druze Protesting?
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
The Biggest Issue in Israel's Nation-State Law
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Germany's Never-Ending Summer
Der Spiegel
Europe’s Trade Coup Leaves China Isolated
Daniel Gros, Project Syndicate
A Romanian Village Feels the Pain of Emigration
Carmen Paun, Politico EU
Bosnian Lessons For Colombian Peace
Kappler & Monroy-Santander, Conversation
What Starts as a Trade War With China Could Go Further
Ali Wyne, Foreign Affairs
A Petition to Change Batman Province's Shape
Hayes Brown, BuzzFeed
Finally, the US Gets Serious About the Indo-Pacific
T. Singh Maini, Notes on Liberty
Why Pacific Islanders Love the Book of Mormon
Carly Stern, Ozy
Iraq's Basra Plans Dam on Vital River
Adnan Abu Zeed, Al Monitor
Touring Somerset With a 1939 Guidebook
Emma Jane Kirby, BBC
The Legacy of Infinite War
Nick Turse, TomDispatch
Wednesday, August 8
Global Supply Chains Are Dangerously Easy to Snap
Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Policy
Dawn of a New Armageddon
Cynthia Lazaroff, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
How Russia's War in Georgia Formed Its Army of Hackers
Daniil Turovsky, Meduza
Assassination Attempt By Drone? Just the Latest Chaos in Venezuela
Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker
We Are Still Living in the Ruins of the 2008 Crash
Frank Rich et al, New York Magazine
On the Prosperity of Countries
Linda Yueh, Vox EU
Japan Begins to Embrace the 100-Year Life
Leo Lewis, Financial Times
How the Euro Burned Europe
Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard
Let's Call Islamophobia What It Is: Racism
Zubaida Haque, New Statesman
As a Muslim Woman, I Thank Boris Johnson For Calling Out Niqab
Q. Ahmed, Spec.
Azov Emerging as Tinderbox in Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Christopher Miller, RFERL
Gauging the Progress of Ukraine’s Local Governance Reform
Andreas Umland, FPA
What Russia Understands about Trump
Michael Weiss, New York Review of Books
Inside Algeria’s Mass Expulsions of Sub-Saharan Migrants
Leila Beratto, WP Review
What It's Like to Do Business in China
Jeff Spross, The Week
Thursday, August 9
The Saudi Crown Prince's Very Strange Fight with Canada
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Mexico’s Tlatelolco Massacre, and Its Echoes Today
Michael Schuessler, The Nation
A Scorecard For Cyril Ramaphosa's Presidency
Ray Hartley, Business Day
Caspian Countries Ready to End Their Sea of Troubles
Henry Foy, FT
How Russia Plans to Get Turkey on Its Side
Aykan Erdemir & John Lechner, Nat'l Interest
NATO and Japan Have Many Reasons to Collaborate
Yusuke Saito, Proceedings
Israel's Army Can't Answer Hamas's Flaming Condom Bombs
Vivian Bercovici, NP
Boris Johnson Should Choose: Statesman or Entertainer
Alex Massie, CapX
Boris Johnson Is Auditioning to Lead a Diminished Britain
Martin Kettle, Guardian
Russia Reels After U.S. Sanctions Spiral Escalates
Andrew Osborn, Reuters
Wait, You’re Sanctioning Us?!
John Feffer, LobeLog
Chaotic New World: What the West Is Becoming
Bruno Maçães, National Review
Turkey Steps Up Efforts to Shun Dollar
Mehmet Cetingulec, Al Monitor
Can I Ruin Your Dinner Party?
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Curious Case Of Russian Pension Reform
L. Todd Wood, Tsarizm
Friday, August 10
China Doesn't Want to Play by the World's Rules
Abigail Grace, Foreign Policy
Colombia's New President Faces a Coming Clash With Venezuela
Frida Ghitis, WPR
Sanctions on Iran Won't Do What Trump Wants Them to Do
Ivan Eland, RCW
Cracking Iran Is Job One
Reuel Marc Gerecht & Ray Takeyh, Weekly Standard
What's Next For Zimbabwe?
Alexander Noyes, Center for Strategic and International Studies
No Silver Bullet: The Problems With a Donbas Referendum
Carl Bildt, ECFR
Learning Lessons From Georgia and Ukraine
Daniel Fried & Mark Simakovsky, USAToday
Saudi Arabia's Fury Shows How Rules Have Changed
F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News
Riyadh Should Stand Down
Jonathan Schanzer & Varsha Koduvayur, New York Post
Burqa Comments Fuel Violence Against Muslim Women
Dal Babu, Guardian
Critiquing Islamist Fundamentalism Is No 'Attack' on Muslim Women
M. Mirza, CH
Why Won’t the Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Scandal Go Away?
Stephen Bush, NYT
The Warrior-Poindexter Pushing Ethiopia and Eritrea to Peace
R. Poplak, Atlantic
A Better Army? German Voters Don't Care For It
Economist
20 Photos of the Crisis in Nicaragua
Jeremiah Poff, Daily Signal
Saturday, August 11
Lessons of the Westphalian Peace For the Middle East
Andreas Kluth, Handelsblatt
Corbyn's Portents For Israel
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Water Wars on the Nile
Daniel Benaim and Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs
How Turkey Sees the Crisis With the U.S.
Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, New York Times
U.S.-Turkey Relations Will Never Be the Same
Therese Raphael, Bloomberg
Does Turkey Have a Future as a Natural Gas Hub?
A. Mikulska & M. Sienkiewicz, WOTR
This Is How Trudeau Could Lose
Paul Wells, Maclean's
Building Fortress Europe
Parastou Hassouri, Cairo Review
The Advantages of a Cease-Fire
Yaakov Amidror, Israel Hayom
New Borders in the Balkans? Still a Bad Idea
Alberto Nardelli & Emily Tamkin, BuzzFeed
Crimea: A Bridgehead or a Barricade?
Pavel Luzin, Riddle
Disciplinary Action for Boris Johnson Could Trigger a Tory Civil War
P. Maguire, NS
Why Uighur Muslims Across China Are Living in Fear
Gene Bunin, The Guardian
Letter from Bishkek
Samuel Goff, Calvert Journal
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