"The Cold Reality of Europe's Migrant Crisis," Gideon Rachman - The Financial Times, April 20, 2015

"The Deaths This Week Are a Wake-Up Call. We Need a Change of Direction," Tim Farron - New Statesman, April 19, 2015

"Refugees Don't Need Our Tears. They Need Us to Stop Making Them Refugees," Anders Lustgarten - The Guardian, April 17, 2015

Power Plays in the Middle East

"Russia's Sale of the S-300 to Iran Will Shift Military Balance Across the Middle East," Clint Hinote -Council on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2015

"The New Saudi Foreign Policy," Ray Takeyh - Council on Foreign Relations, April 17, 2015

"Iran's Game in Yemen," Mohsen Milani - Foreign Affairs, April 19, 2015

"Is Iran Overstretched in Syria?" Randa Slim - Foreign Policy, April 17, 2015

ISIS - A Look Inside the Terrorist Organization

"The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State," Christoph Reuter - Spiegel Online International, April 18, 2015

India - Forging New Partnerships While Dealing with an Old Nemesis

"India's New Transatlantic Push," Dhruva Jaishankar - Real Clear World, April 17, 2015

"In France, Germany, and Canada, Modi Impresses," Harsh V. Pant - The Diplomat, April 20, 2015

"The Lakhvi Triangle," Whitney Kassel - Foreign Policy, April 16, 2015

UK Elections

"Why the EU Needs Britain as Much as Britain Needs the EU," Gareth Harding - EU Observer, April 20, 2015

"You Think Coalition Government was Bad? What's Coming is Uglier," Matthew d'Ancona - The Guardian, April 19, 2015

Russia - Another (Not So) Cold War?

"Russia and America: Stumbling to War," Graham Allison and Dimitri K. Simes - The National Interest, April 20, 2015

U.S. Foreign Policy

"Whatever Happened to Obama's Pivot to Asia?" Fareed Zakaria - The Washington Post, April 16, 2015

"The Story of the 21st Century: China's Challenge to Pax Americana," Eric Weiner - The National Interest, April 20, 2015

"America's Failed Approach to Chaos Theory," Anthony H. Cordesman - Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 16, 2015

Geopolitics - New Drivers of Change

"The New Global Marketplace of Political Change," Thomas Carothers and Oren Samet-Marram - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 20, 2015