Week of May 13, 2019 Archives

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Monday, May 13
Erdogan Just Committed Political Suicide
Henri Barkey, Foreign Policy
What’s Really Behind Greece’s Demand for WWII Reparations?
A. Papazoglou, NR
How Trump Can Transform Nuclear Arms Control
Richard Burt & Jon Wolfsthal, TNI
Zelenskiy's First Big Test
Basil Kalymon, Atlantic Council
In Venezuela, Geopolitics Obscure the True Prize: Oil
Max Hess, Moscow Times
Why Scott Morrison Made a Last-Second Policy Push
S. Kelly, Sydney Morning Herald
Charting 50 Years of Turning Tides in Australian Politics
Greg Earl, Lowy Interpreter
Gaza Escalation: A Prelude to Hamas-Israel War?
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
Private Equity Firms Shun UK For Europe
Javier Espinoza, Financial Times
Inside Syria's Secret Torture Prisons
Anne Barnard, New York Times
No, There Isn’t Moral Equivalence Between China and the U.S.
B. Weingarten, Fed.
'Maximum Pressure’ Raises Pressure on U.S. Foreign Policy
Sonne & Hudson, WaPo
The In-Your-Face Diplomat
James Rubin, Politico
No Reason to Mind Anything Trump Spins Out of Ukraine
L. Bershidsky, Bloom. View
House Democrats Are Shortchanging the Military
Frederico Bartels, Daily Signal
Tuesday, May 14
If Iran Deploys Missiles in Iraq
Michael Knights & Assaf Orion, Washington Institute
Will China Help Ease U.S. Pressure on Iran?
Mohsen Shariatinia, Al-Monitor
Cameroon’s Separatist Movement Goes International
Gareth Browne, Foreign Policy
Last Year's Promise of a 'New Malaysia' Has Wilted
Sholto Byrnes, The National
WhatsApp Voice Calls Used to Inject Israeli Spyware on Phones
M. Srivastava, FT
Russia Exploits Climate Change in the Arctic
Stephen Blank, The Hill
The Many Victims of China’s Trade Patterns
Jayati Ghosh, Project Syndicate
Farage’s Party Set For Massive Electoral Gains, Polls Find
Paul Dallison, Politico EU
Is Russia Preparing A Gas Nuclear Option?
Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Is Yet Another U.S. President Provoking a War?
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Boondoggle, Inc.
William Hartung & Mandy Smithberger, TomDispatch
Mexico’s New President Turns Back the Clock on Democracy
Denise Dresser, FA
Trump Has Been Right About China For Decades
Steve Hilton, Fox News
Sharpening the U.S.-China Trade Debate
Derek Scissors, American Enterprise Institute
A British Town’s Novel Solution to Austerity
Hazel Sheffield, The Atlantic
Wednesday, May 15
A de Gaulle of Our Own
Ross Douthat, New York Times
NATO Expansion Was a Remarkable Success
Hal Brands, Bloomberg View
NATO Expansion Was a Mistake
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
We Need to Integrate Central Europe
Pres. Andrzej Duda, Financial Times
Trump Admin Prepares Multiple Military Options For Iran
JLaporta & O'Connor, NW
Iran Moves Missiles to Iraq
John Irish & Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters
Moscow to Weave AI Face Recognition into Urban Surveillance Net
S. Bendett, D1
Foreign Adversaries Have Figured Trump Out
David Ignatius, Washington Post
Top UK Officer: No Increased Threat in Syria or Iraq
Julian Borger, Guardian
India Will Suffer For Modi's Failures on Corruption
James Crabtree, Nikkei
A Third Trump-Kim Summit Is the Last Best Chance
Glyn Ford, SCMP
The Sino-Russian Relationship Is Being Misunderstood
Andrey Panevin, Lowy 
China’s Brilliant, Insidious Strategy
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
The New Space Race
Lara Seligman, Foreign Policy
Living in the Panopticon
Uday Balakrishnan, The Hindu
Thursday, May 16
The Historical Roots of Germany’s Russia Lobby
Richard Herzinger, American Interest
Why Russia’s Middle Class Is Shrinking
Maxim Trudolyubov, Moscow Times
Europe's Top 3 Challenges Aren't What You Think
Tomáš Valášek, Carnegie Europe
How Pro-Iran Hackers Spoofed FP and the News Media
Elias Groll, Foreign Policy
Jamaica's Extraordinary Economic Turnaround
Axel Van Trotsenburg, Miami Herald
China Became Worse Threat Than Russia by Exploiting Liberals
Victor Hanson, NYP
Is Democracy Dead in Turkey?
Kemal Kirişci, Brookings Institution
Trump Didn't Start This Trade War, China Did
Marc Thiessen, Fox News
Two Decades After Milosevic, Dictatorship Is Returning to Serbia
Aleks Eror, WPR
European Elections: Part Over For the Center-Right?
Alex Barker, Financial Times
Britain Divides But Doesn't Rule
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
It’s John Bolton’s World. Trump Is Just Living in It.
Colin Kahl & Jon Wolfsthal, LATimes
So, You Want to Invade Iran?
Brandon Weichert, American Spectator
Algeria and Morocco: Essential Differences
Ahmed Charai, Jerusalem Post
Trump's Iran Strategy Puts U.S. on the Road to Nowhere Good
J. McLaughlin, Ozy
Friday, May 17
John Bolton Is Exactly What Trump's Iran Policy Needs
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
A Greek Canary in a Global Goldmine
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
Russia and Cuba Could End the Venezuelan Catastrophe
Jorge Castañeda, NY Times
Hungary Still Hasn’t Come to Terms with its Role in Holocaust
Anna Porter, Quillette
Why Are Our MPs Investigating Love Island?
Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail
Who Is Most Vulnerable in a Trade War?
Scott Sumner, Library of Economics & Liberty
Iran, Please Give Trump a Call
Jamsheed Choksy & Carol Choksy, CNN
Trade Is Just the Opening Shot in Wider U.S.-China Conflict
Philip Stephens, FT
South Africa Election Shakes Up Major Parties, Little More
Martin Plaut, African Arguments
Abbas Ready to Reject Peace Plan, But Not For the Consequences
D. May, RCW
What's Behind Russia's Passport Scheme in Donbas?
Yuri Zoria, Euromaidan Press
Finland Is Becoming Europe’s Japan
Charlie Duxbury, Politico EU
Iran Tells Middle East Militias: Prepare For Proxy Wars
Martin Chulov, Guardian
The Calm For Congo's Ebola storm
Christian Science Monitor
In Africa, All Jihad Is Local
Hilary Matfess, Foreign Policy
Saturday, May 18
Hong Kong in the U.S.-China New Cold War
Brian C.H. Fong, The Diplomat
Why China Is Talking About a 'People's War'
Gordon Chang, National Interest
Taiwan on (the) Edge
Shelley Rigger, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Will Trump Admin Abort Iran's Land Bridge to Mediterranean?
Joe Macaron, Al Monitor
Huawei Threat Is the Nuclear Option to Halt China’s Rise
Bloomberg
An Austrian Politician Caught in the Trap
Leila Al-Serori et al, Suddeutsche Zeitung
The Strange Influence of the Macedonian Model
Vessela Tcherneva, ECFR
Why Is South Korea Making Life Hard on Defectors From North?
O. Schieber, RCW
Voters Want to Move On, But Brexit Britain Is Stuck
Camilla Cavendish, Fin. Times


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