Week of August 13, 2018 Archives

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Monday, August 13
Why Germany Should Get the Bomb
Christian Hacke, National Interest
Meet the Middle East’s Peace of Westphalia Re-Enactors
Borzou Daragahi, For. Policy
How the Islamic State Lost Its Caliphate
Shiraz Maher, New Statesman
'Pray For Me': The Iraqi Spy Who Infiltrated Islamic State
Margaret Coker, NY Times
The Saudi-Canada Clash: Whose Values?
Patrick Buchanan, The American Conservative
Can We Know What Music Sounded Like in Ancient Greece?
Armand D'Angour, Aeon
The Interest Group Economics Wreaking Havoc on Iran's Rial
Bijan Khajehpour, ALM
The Deep Suffering in Venezuela's Hospitals
Jens Glüsing, Der Spiegel
China, the Language of Virtue, and the Global Order
James Watt, LobeLog
My Quest for the Ultimate Canadian Word
Will Ferguson, The Walrus
V.S. Naipaul: Death of a Towering Writer and Deeply Flawed Man
Jeet Heer, NRep.
Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Boosting America's Standing
Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Mexico's President-Elect Should Rethink His Security Stupidity
Tom Rogan, Exam.
Europe Must 'Harmonize' to Ireland's Tax Level, not to France's
D. Lacalle, Mises
The Prague Spring Still Haunts Europe
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Foreign Aid and Religion in the Pacific
Bruce Hill, Lowy Interpreter
The Great War’s Greatest Killer
Laura Spinney, Chatham House
Tuesday, August 14
Let's Not Invite China to Invade Taiwan
Gordon Chang, National Interest
Neo-Marxism Marches to Victory in the West
Andrew Michta, The American Interest
Death of a Marxist
Vijay Prashad, The Hindu
The Global Corporation Is Winning American Politics
Edward Goldberg, RCWorld
Corporate Capitalists Killed American Identity
David Masciotra, American Conservative
The Real Reason Behind The Next Oil Squeeze
David Messler, Oil Price
Serbia and Kosovo Are Considering Partition
Valerie Hopkins, Financial Times
The Modern Inquisition Targets Boris Johnson
Brendan O'Neill, Spectator
Boris or the Burqa? It's a False and Dehumanizing Choice
Polly Toynbee, Guardian
China Pushes Reverse Mortgages to Pay for Pensions
Fan Liya, Sixth Tone
Russia Wary of Taking Sides in Libya
Kirill Semenov, Al Monitor
Turkey's Crisis Tests Putin's Global Gamesmanship
Kravchenko & Arkhipov, Bloom.
Erdogan Tilts at Windmills as Lira's Decline Continues
Krishnadev Calamur, Atlantic
Turkey's Growing Pains
Peter Zeihan, Global View
Introducing Britain’s New Political Party
Matthew Goodwin, Politico EU
Canada's Corporate Tax Cuts Didn't Deepen Deficit
M. Bédard & A. Michel, Examiner
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Between Crisis and the Future
Alison Pargeter, J-town
Wednesday, August 15
Chinese Cops Are Now Spying on American Soil
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Daily Beast
Pentagon Barred From Funding Confucius Institutes on U.S. Campuses
Rogin, WP
Rebalancing China and Bracing for the Trade War
Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures
Why Israel Needs the Nation-State Law
Liel Leibovitz, Tablet Magazine
Israeli Democracy Is Under Assault
David Horovitz, Times of Israel
India at 71: Is It Still as Naipaul Described?
Rashmee Roshan Lall, The National
V.S. Naipaul, Poet of the Displaced
Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
Trump Is the First President to Get Turkey Right
Steven Cook, Foreign Policy
Economic Nationalism Eclipses Islam in Indonesian Election
Ken Ward, Nikkei
Indonesia's Tough Love Won't Crisis-Proof Its Currency
Shuli Ren, Bloomberg View
Invasion: The Crushing of the Prague Spring
RFERL
Romania and Black Sea Security
Iulia-Sabina Joja, War on the Rocks
The Russian Threat You're Not Hearing About
Michael Matlaga, The Cipher Brief
Zimbabwe's Elections Were Meant to Start a New Era
Knox Chitiyo, Chatham House
Youth Adore Her, Taliban Despise Her: Afghanistan's Only Pop Star
Koelbl, Spiegel
Why US, Others Are Casting a Wary Eye on Chinese Investment
K.A. Elliott, WPR
Thursday, August 16
European Migration Policies Are Disconnected From Reality
Tarek Megerisi, ECFR
Why Putin's Approval Ratings Are Declining Sharply
Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs
It's Time to Let Korea Fix Korea
Bonnie Kristian, The Week
Global Theater Falls Behind the Curtain
Blair Ruble, RealClearWorld
Poland’s Dictatorship of Myth
Slawomir Sierakowski, Project Syndicate
India's Hindu Nationalists Still Feed Off Partition's Wounds
Ariel Sophia Bardi, FP
Documents Show Successful Cyberattack in California Race
Andy Kroll, RS
U.S. Overdose Deaths Reached a Record 72,000 in 2017
Margot Sanger-Katz, NYT
Colombia and Corruption: The Problem of Extreme Legalism
Rathbone & Long, FT
The West Shouldn't Revel in Erdogan’s Misfortunes
Jens Münchrath, Handelsblatt
Europe Watches as Turkey Burns
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
What Dictators Can’t Dictate
Kevin Williamson, National Review
The Man in Xinjiang
Ottessa Moshfegh, New Yorker
Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?
Wesley Morgan, Politico
Facebook Is Losing the War on Hate Speech in Myanmar
Steve Stecklow, Reuters
The British Museum’s ‘Looting’ Problem
Josephine Livingstone, New Republic
Will Artificial Intelligence Undermine Nuclear Stability?
Andrew Lohn, The Bulletin
Friday, August 17
The Currency Crisis of 2018?
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
Is Italy a Foretaste of What's to Come For European Populism?
Bruce Stokes, RCW
A Dry Measure of the Forces Tearing Apart the Nation-State
Aditya Chakrabortty, NS
Britain's Bluffocracy
James Ball & Andrew Greenway, Spectator
America's Global Order Can Be Saved
Hal Brands, Bloomberg View
Europe and the U.S. Drift Apart
John McLaughlin, Ozy
North Korea's Economy in 2018: Reform and Delay
Ruediger Frank, 38 North
How to Achieve Something Real in North Korea
Andrei Lankov, NK News
Two Cheers For the New Caspian Convention
Stephen Blank, Lowy Interpreter
Is the Caspian a Sea or a Lake?
Economist
Oil, Gas and Caviar: Why Are Caspian Countries Settling Up Now?
C Zhou, ABC-Au
Will Ankara Go Cold Turkey?
Holger Schmieding, The Globalist
Xi Jinping Thought Is Facing a Harsh Reality Check
Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Policy
How China Put Duisburg Back on the Trade Map
Gray & Schlautmann, Handelsblatt
How Facebook Made Trafficking Antiquities Easier Than Ever
Al-Azm & Paul, WPR
Hardline Revisited: Welcome To Iván Duque's Colombia
É. Gutiérrez Roa, Worldcrunch
Revoke My Security Clearance Too, Mr. President
William McRaven, Wash. Post
The Iran the European Union Imagines
Clifford May, Washington Times
Turkey Wants Its Share of Syria’s Reconstruction
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
Saturday, August 18
A Retrospective on the Russo-Georgian War
Michael Kofman, War on the Rocks
Taiwan Is Key to U.S.Power in the Pacific
Seth Cropsey, The Hill
How Will Imran Khan Manage Pakistan's Bomb?
Pervez Hoodbhoy & Zia Mian, Bulletin
Kofi Annan, Diplomat Who Redefined the UN, Dies at 80
Alan Cowell, New York Times
Iran's Economy Can't Be Shielded From U.S. Sanctions
James Phillips, Nat'l Interest
The 1970s Revanchist Is Suddenly the Face of the New New Left
A. Sullivan, NYM
How the ‘Center' Became Unimportant in U.S. Politics
Jonah Goldberg, New York Post
Must Kosovo Pay the Price of the EU’s Mistakes?
Eraldin Fazliu, Balkan Insight
Spy Vs. President
Fred Kaplan, Slate
The EU Does Not Support Changing Kosovo's Borders
Michael Leigh, GMF
Saudi Arabia's Problem Isn't Canada Fight, It's Capital Flight
K. Young, Bloomberg
Turkey Has Only Itself To Blame For Its Financial Crisis
Helen Raleigh, The Federalist


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