Wednesday, May 6, 2015

  

The 2016 Election; regime change in the Middle East; politicizing the TPP; strained relations with China; Sri Lanka takes the stage; Vietnam reflects; Britain retreats; plus global energy forecast.

  

Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election

"Everybody Against Obama: Previewing 2016's Foreign-Policy Debate," John Allen Gay - The National Interest, May 1, 2015

 

"Bernie Sanders Could Push Hillary Clinton Into Uncomfortable Foreign Policy Territory," David Francis - Foreign Policy, April 30, 2015

 

Saudi Arabia - More Changes at the Top

"The Saudi Royal Family Shakeup," Robin Wright - The New Yorker, April 30, 2015

 

"Which Way Will Saudi Arabia Swing?" Luay Al-Khatteeb - Brookings, May 1, 2015

 

Syria - Assad: Going, Going, Gone?

"Talks Restart But That's Not Why Civil War Might End," Alan Philps - The National, May 3, 2015

 

"Is Bashar-al-Assad Finished, For Real, This Time, Again?" Aaron David Miller - Foreign Policy, May 1, 2015

 

Trans-Pacific Partnership - The Geopolitics of Economics

"A Trade Watershed?" Robert J. Samuelson - The Washington Post, May 3, 2015

 

"Weaponized: The 'China Card' Makes Its Return to U.S. Politics," Peter Harris - The National Interest, May 1, 2015

 

U.S.-Sino Relations - Clash of the Titans?

"Why the New U.S.-Japan Security and Trade Pacts Will Incur China’s Wrath," Minxin Pei - The World Post, May 4, 2015

 

"A Frosty Peace Beckons for the U.S. and China," Philip Stephens - Financial Times, April 30, 2015

 

Sri Lanka - A Tiny, but Suddenly Strategic, Country

"Sri Lanka Looks to the United States," Walter Russell Mead - The American Interest, May 3, 2015

 

"India v. China in Sri Lanka - Lessons for Rising Powers," Kadira Pethiyagoda - Brookings, May 1, 2015

 

Vietnam - Reflections on the "American War"

"How Young Vietnamese View the Vietnam War," Elisabeth Rosen - The Atlantic, April 30, 2015

 

United Kingdom - Missing in Action?

"Is Britain Retreating From the World?" Richard G. Whitman Interview - Council on Foreign Relations, May 1, 2015

 

"Britain's Uncertain European Future," Robin Niblett - Politico, May 5, 2015

 

Energy Outlook - What Does the Future Hold for the U.S.?

"American Strategy and Critical Changes in the U.S. 'Energy Import Dependence,'" Anthony H. Cordesman - Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 4, 2015

 

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