Week of December 30, 2019 Archives

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Monday, December 30
The U.S. Fails Because It Can't Define What It Wants
Hussein Ibish The National
Why America's Political Parties Just Won't Die
Paul Saunders National Interest
Why No One Can Talk About the Attacks on Orthodox Jews
Ungar-Sargon Forward
Jews Are Going Underground
Deborah Lipstadt The Atlantic
Is Liberal Democracy Always the Answer? Guinea-Bissau Case
R. Shryock FP
The Paralysis of Nations Is Empowering Cities
Chrystie Swiney et al The Hill
Stonehenge and the Battle for Conservatism's Soul
Alex Massie CapX
Russia Looks to Profit Big From Climate Change
Michael Scollon RFERL
America's Desperate Need for AI Talent
Megan Lamberth Breaking Defense
Senate Must Pass the Uighur Act
Abdul Malik Mujahid Washington Examiner
Debate: Should Canada Ban Non-Resident Homebuyers?
Cross & Hutchings Star
The Story of the World's Loneliest Tree
Dustin Renwick National Geographic
Where Is the Outrage in Latin America Over Cuba?
Gabriel Salvia Worldcrunch
30 Years After Romania's Revolution, Questions Remain
Carmen Paun Politico EU


Tuesday, December 31
China, not Brexit, Will Define the Next Decade for Britain
James Kirkup The Times
Ambivalence About Russia Is a French Tradition
Robert Zaretsky Foreign Affairs
A Low, Dishonest Decade
Kaushik Basu Project Syndicate
Karachi's Urban Dystopia and the Future of Cities
Huma Yusuf Dawn
Positives to Indian Diplomacy Amid a Dismal Year
Indrani Bagchi Times of India
20 Years of Russian Institutionalism in Eurasia
Janko Šćepanović The Diplomat
Beacons in the Stormy Seas of 2019
Kuni Miyake Japan Times
The Year the Islamic State Lost Its Last Strongholds
Vera Mironova Foreign Policy
Jew-Haters, Right and Left
Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe


Thursday, January 2
The 3 Worst Foreign Policy Disasters of the 2010s
Daniel DePetris National Interest
A Decade of No Lessons Learned in U.S. Overseas Intervention
B. Doherty Reason
Is Trump's 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Blowing Up in Iraq?
Nahal Toosi Politico
Putin's Pipeline Power Plays
Nina Krushcheva Project Syndicate
Hopes and Fears for an Uncertain Chinese Economy in 2020
Cary Huang SCMP
Peril and Hope: The Nuclear Decade in Review
M. Dover & J. Cirincione Defense One
Trump's Approach to Iran Is Muddled and Unpredictable
Aaron David Miller CNN
Trump Is at Iran's Mercy
Peter Beinart The Atlantic
A New Cold War…With Eurasia?
James Pinkerton The American Conservative
The End of the Soft-Power Delusion
Nick Tell National Review
Kim's Goal, and How Trump Should Respond
Harry J. Kazianis Fox News
We Can Never Be Sure We'd Be the Good Guys
David Aaronovitch The Times


Friday, January 3
Trump's Ground Game Against Iran
Michael Doran The New York Times
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
Andrew Exum The Atlantic
America Took Out World's Number One Bad Guy
Jake Novak CNBC
Weighing 20 Years of Predictions on Putin
Thomas Schaffner Russia Matters
Losing Iraq and the Gulf After Decades of Failed Strategy
Anthony Cordesman CSIS
Turkey Makes Its Move
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Turkey Enters Libyan Escalation Spiral at Great Risk
Micha'el Tanchum TPQ
Now Russia Accuses China of Tech Theft
James Dorsey The Globalist
Top 6 Foreign Policy Risks in 2020
Robert Manning Atlantic Council
Why Iran Is Losing Its Grip on Iraq
Ray Takeyh The Hill
Washington's Warning to Iran
New York Post
U.S. Embassy Attack Backfires on Iran in Iraq
Ali Mamouri Al Monitor
Is Namibia the Next Great Oil Frontier?
Meredith Taylor Oil Price
Morrison Stays Passive in Face of Crisis in Australia
David Crowe SMH
Back to India's Secular Future
Kapil Komireddi Foreign Policy
Developing: U.S. Strike Kills Powerful Iranian Commander
ARCHIVES: Iran's Shadow Commander
Dexter Filkins New Yorker


Saturday, January 4
The Suleimani Killing Raises the Stakes
Dexter Filkins New Yorker
Trump May Have Restored Deterrence
David Petraeus with Lara Seligman Foreign Policy
Iran Crisis Will Drive Wedge Between Europe, U.S.
Ellie Geranmayeh Politico EU
Soleimani Haunted the Arab World
Kim Ghattas The Atlantic
How Iran's Elite Also Benefit From Soleimani's Death
Carol & Jamsheed Choksy RCW
The Russian Military: Forging a Foreign Policy Tool
Jacek Bartosiak Geopolitical Futures
Harvesting the Fruits of Abe's Diplomacy
Nobumasa Akiyama East Asia Forum
Why a Cool War May Be Worse Than a Cold One
Xiao Geng & Andrew Sheng PS


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