Week of August 12, 2019 Archives

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Monday, August 12
Beijing, Moscow, and Shades of the ‘80s
Reuben Johnson, The Bulwark
NATO’s Navies Need a Wargaming Series
Jared Samuelson, War on the Rocks
Delusions About Russia
Dimitri Simes, National Interest
How 2016 Coup Attempt Led Turkey to Buy S-400
Kadri Gursel, Al Monitor
China Exports its Panopticon 
Mike Riggs, Reason
The Case for Returning NSC to Its Original Role
Shay Khatiri, National Review
The Saudi Coalition Is Tearing Itself Apart
Daniel Larison, The American Conservative
Bees Swarm Berlin, Where Beekeeping Is Booming
C. Schuetze & P. Karasz, NYT
Iran Thinks It Can Do What It Wants in the Gulf
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post
Ethiopia’s Economy Is Booming, but at What Cost?
Tom Gardner, The Atlantic
Can Anyone Stop Salvini?
Jacopo Barigazzi & Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Politico EU
Reflections on the American Question
Irvin Studin, Global Brief
A Dispatch from Puerto Rico
Molly Crabapple, New York Review of Books
Kenyans Would Prefer AI as a Leader
Nerima Wako-Ojiwa, The East African
Tuesday, August 13
The U.S. or China? Europe Needs to Pick a Side
A. Kendall-Taylor & R. Rizzo, Politico
Xi's Hong Kong Options—and Ours
Jiangli Yang & Aaron Rhodes, The American Interest
The World's Silence on Hong Kong Is Deafening
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
Washington Should Stop Shooting Off About Hong Kong
Tom Plate, SCMP
China Is a Rival, Not an Enemy
Bonnie Kristian, The Hill
If Boris Fixes UK's Law and Order Problem, Brits Will Love Him
S. Glover, Daily Mail
A Mysterious Explosion Took Place in Russia. What Really Happened?
J Lewis, FP
Putin Began by Embracing the West. Now He Wants Revenge.
A. Roxburgh, G'dian
Bored Brits Want Brexit Done Now or Not at All
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
The Illegal Gold Rush Enriching Maduro's Regime
Andrés Martínez-Fernández, RCW
How Algeria's Military Rules the Country
Dalia Ghanem, Washington Post
The Dark Side of Turkey's Intelligence Community
Michael Rubin, National Interest
Riyadh Faces a New Setback in South Yemen
Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor
The Ramaphosa Question
Stephen Grootes, Daily Maverick
Wednesday, August 14
Putin the Great
Susan Glasser, Foreign Affairs
Xi Wants to Rule the World, But He Has Problems at Home
C. Burton, Globe and Mail
Why Erdogan Gambled on Russia
Laura Pitel, Aime Williams & Henry Foy, Financial Times
How Does the Kremlin Kick When It’s Down?
Polina Beliakova, War on the Rocks
What Hong Kong Says About China's Plans for the World
James Jay Carafano, Fox
Why America Has an Ineffective Department of State
Paul Pillar, National Interest
Smart Cities or Surveillance? Huawei in Central Asia
Yau Tsz Yan, The Diplomat
Will China’s Next Crisis Be in Tibet?
James Flynn, The American Interest
Pakistan's Kashmir Challenge
Muhammad Amir Rana, Dawn
The Contours of the Kashmir Move
Suhasini Haidar, The Hindu
The World Is Reaping the Chaos the British Empire Sowed
Amy Hawkins, For. Policy
China Pushes Back, Weakly
Milton Ezrati, City Journal
It's Time for Canada to Stand Behind Taiwan
Scott Simon, National Post
Thailand's Options as Trade War Rages
Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Bangkok Post
In Afghanistan, No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal
Clifford May, Washington Times
Thursday, August 15
Why Tragedy Matters in U.S. Foreign Policy
Derek Chollet, National Interest
No, This Is Not the Fall of Rome
Niall Ferguson, Boston Globe
Eric Hobsbawm: Peering Darkly Into the Future
Richard Evans, New Statesman
The German–Soviet Pact: A Bad Deal, 80 Years Ago
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
China and a Global Economic Contraction
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Merkel on Her Legacy: ‘She Tried’
Emma Anderson, Politico EU
Once Britain Is Out of the EU, It Is Out
David Allen Green, Financial Times
The Royal Family in the Brexit Maelstrom
Rebecca Mead, New Yorker
In Hong Kong, China Shows Its Terrifying Vision of the Future
Washington Examiner
Amid Iran Crisis, U.S. Offers Big Military Aid Boost to Azerbaijan
Joshua Kucera, LL
How Close Is Hong Kong to a Second Tiananmen?
Jude Blanchette, Foreign Policy
Modi’s Decision on Kashmir Reveals a Brittleness in India
Sadanand Dhume, Atlantic
Friday, August 16
When Leninists Overreach
Nina Khrushcheva, Project Syndicate
Putin’s Ill-Advised Embrace of China
Marvin Ott, Foreign Policy Research Institute
The U.S. Can't Seem to Live Without Afghanistan
Aaron David Miller, The Hill
Hong Kong, America & Liberty
Mark Tooley, Providence
Hong Kong Captures Americans' Warped Views of the World
Edward Luce, FT
Connections Trump Competence at the State Department
Robbie Gramer, For. Policy
A Thawing Arctic Heats Up a New Cold War
Neil Shea, National Geographic
The Myth of American Military Dominance
Justin Lynch, War on the Rocks
Head-Scratchers in the News
Kevin Williamson, National Review
The U.S. Has Long Created Central America's Problems
Rebecca Gordon, T-Dispatch
As Hong Kong Cries Out, Where Is the Free World?
Claudia Rosett, PJ Media
Israel’s Massive Self-Own
Daniel Shapiro, The Atlantic
Pro-Israel Positions Don't Excuse Anti-Semitism
David Schraub, Jerusalem Post
Israel Has Been Banning Politicians for Years
Cnaan Liphshiz, Times of Israel
Israel Has Every Right to Block Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
D. Harsanyi, Federalist
Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left
Marc Thiessen, Fox News
Decluttering the Japan-South Korea Debate
Michael MacArthur Bosack, Japan Times
Saturday, August 17
The Population Bust
Zachary Karabell, Foreign Affairs
Right From Wrong: A Guide to Europe's New Politics
Douglas Murray, Spectator
Will Hong Kong Survive China's Crackdown?
Doug Bandow, National Interest
The Battle for Hong Kong
Nikolai Wenzel, Law and Liberty
New Delhi’s Demographic Designs in Kashmir
Idris Bhat, Foreign Policy
Israel Is Correct to Bar Omar and Tlaib
Shmuley Boteach, Jerusalem Post
Eroding the Core Values of U.S.-Israeli Bond
Aaron David Miller, USA Today
Investing for the Pacific Century
Naz El-Khatib & Abby Bard, RealClearWorld


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