Why buy those weekly news digests like The Week when over at Global Europe, Uli Speck has started a very helpful compilation of foreign policy must-reads of the week?
This week’s offerings are Russia: Very Little to Celebrate — By Vladimir Ryzhkov, Moscow Times; The Legacy of 1989 Is Still Up for Debate — By Steven Erlanger, NY Times; Call White House, Ask for Barack — By Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times; Germany Holds Back on Top European Roles — By Judy Dempsey, NY Times; Lessons for dealing with Iran — By Emily B. Landau, Daily Star; How Obama Lost the Middle East — By Walter Russel Mead, Daily Beast; We’re back to propping up rotten regimes — By Adrian Hamilton, Independent; Ill Will Grows in a Former Colonial Region as France Consorts With the Powerful — NY Times; Losing the fight for Darfur — By Michael Gerson, Washington Post.
Has he missed any? Send in any suggestions to us via the comments page (perhaps we’ll even start up our own list for weekend reading).
Let’s start with Timothy Garton Ash’s Velvet Revolution: The Prospects, from NYRB, as well as Niall Ferguson’s characteristically contrary take in Newsweek on why The Year the World Really Changed wasn’t 1989, but 1979.
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