Sarajevo: the crossroads of history
Financial Times
By Simon Kuper
100 years after the Gavrilo Princip assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo continues to live in the shadow of war. Simon Kuper describes this sleepy Balkan town’s careful struggle to move past its history.
Confronting Putin’s Russia
New York Times
By Michael A. McFaul
Recently retired U.S. ambassador to Moscow Michael A. McFaul expresses his disappointment and frustration with Putin’s Russia, arguing that now is the time to devise a unified policy of isolation towards the repressive regime.
The Chaos Company
Vanity Fair
By William Langewiesche
Langewiesche follows Pierre Booyse, a soldier of fortune serving G4S, a private security firm commanding a force three times the size of the British military, into some of the most dangerous conflict zones in Southern Sudan. He describes difficult mental, not to mention physical, toll of constant conflict for the seemingly disaffected mercenaries and reveals their company’s complicated relationship with regular forces.
The Interpreters We Left Behind
Men’s Journal
By Paul Solotaroff
Paul Solotaroff explores the plight of Afghan and Iraqi interpreters for the U.S. military that are now being left behind in increasingly hostile territory.
Inside the Kafkaesque World of the US’s ‘Little Guantanamos’
Vice
By Annie P. Waldman
Annie P. Waldman examines the bizarre and relatively little-known arrangement known as the Communication Management Unit (CMU), where prisoners, usually Muslim, are held under strict conditions and little access to the outside world.
Blogs:
A Method, Yet a Madness: Understanding Russian Democracy by Anna Pivovarchuk
Smog is enemy #1 in China’s ‘war on pollution’ by Jordan Stutts
Crimea’s Impact on Syria and Iran by Scott Monje
Analysis: Recent U.S.-Israeli Tensions Based on Cultural Misunderstandings by Rachel Avraham
How Hospitals Are Helping U.S. Trade Policy by Elyse Lichtenthal
Podcasts:
Michael Werz on Turkey with Sarwar Kashmeri
Edited by G. John Ikenberry. Proposed Essay Topics 1) American Foreign Policy and the Future of Multilateralism Over the postwar decades, the United States played a leadership role in building multilateral regimes and institutions across a wide range of policy areas. It was a founder of the United Nations and champion of the Bretton Woods […]
U.S.–China Relations: Competition or Cooperation? The U.S. and China stand at the center of today’s most consequential global relationship—one that shapes trade, technology, security, and the future of international leadership.Great Decisions: U.S.–China Relations, a free classroom resource from the Foreign Policy Association, helps students explore the history, tensions, and interdependence between these two nations through […]
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