"Would Arming Syria's Rebels Have Stopped the Islamic State?" Marc Lynch - The Washington Post, August 11, 2014
"Beyond Bombing Iraq: Obama Needs an ISIS Strategy," Michael Rubin - The National Interest, August 12, 2014
"Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS," Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic, August 10, 2014
Maliki Out in Baghdad
"Nouri al-Maliki has Lost His Job, But it Doesn't Really Matter," Dan Murphy - The Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 2014
Iran
"Iran Ignores a Lucrative Deal Over its Nuclear Activities," Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz - The Washington Post, August 10, 2014
Ukraine and Russia
"Ukraine is Winning the War, But will Putin Invade?" Chrystia Freeland - Politico Magazine, August 11, 2014
"Putin Has Stumbled in Ukraine," Fyodor Lukyanov - The Moscow Times, August 10, 2014
Tensions in Turkey
"Erdogan Takes a Page from Putin to Tighten His Grip on Turkey," Adnan Khan - The Globe and Mail, August 11, 2014
"The United States, Turkey, and the Kurdish Regions: The Peace Process in Context," Michael Werz and Max Hoffman - Center for American Progress, July 31, 2014
Politics in China
"China's Political Spectrum Under Xi Jinping," Sebastian Veg - The Diplomat, August 11, 2014
The Future of ASEAN
"U.S. and China's Dueling Visions of ASEAN," Patrick M. Cronin and Cecilia Zhou - The Diplomat, August 10, 2014
Views on U.S. Foreign Policy
"What if the U.S. Had a Middle East Strategy?" David J. Rothkopf - Foreign Policy, August 11, 2014
"After Iraq: Surviving the Summer of Global Chaos," James Jay Carafano - The National Interest, August 10, 2014
