"NATO Offers Security Blanket to Countries in Russia's Orbit," Patrick Smyth - The Irish Times, September 6, 2014

"Russia Takes, NATO Blinks - An Invitation to Putin," George F. Will - New York Post, September 7, 2014
  

"NATO's Eastern Countries Fractured Over Response to Russia," Robert Coalson - Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, September 6, 2014
 

"Mr. Putin's War - And Why He Continues to Deny It," Steven Pifer - The National Interest, September 5, 2014

"Beware the Bear," Keith Johnson and Jamila Trindle - Foreign Policy, September 5, 2014

"Why Not Kill Them All," Keith Gessen - London Review of Books, September 11, 2014

"Pushing Back Against Putin," John R. Bolton - The Weekly Standard, September 15, 2014

"A Boy and His Toys," Jeffrey Lewis - Foreign Policy, September 5, 2014

Recipes for Destroying ISIS

"The Only Way to Defeat the Islamic State," Robert Scales - The Washington Post, September 5, 2014

"Could Iran Be Part of America's New Coalition of the Willing?" Joshua Keating - Slate, September 5, 2014

"Does Prez Have What it Takes to Defeat ISIS?" Linda Chavez - Boston Herald, September 8, 2014

"Time for Congress and the President to Work Together on ISIL," Daniel R. DePetris - The National Interest, September 9, 2014 

China in Latin America

"China's Economic Empire," Christophe Ventura - Le Monde diplomatique, September 2014
 

Scotland's Independence Vote

"Debate Has Intoxicated Scotland. People Have Seen the Chance to Seize Power," Deborah Orr - The Guardian, September 5, 2014

"Showdown in Scotland," Peter Geoghegan - Foreign Policy, September 8, 2014

"Decapitate Britain, and We Kill Off the Greatest Political Union Ever," Boris Johnson - The Telegraph, September 8, 2014