Ebola Update
"Why Wasn't the WHO Ready for Ebola?" Joshua Keating - Slate, October 22, 2014
Canada after the Shooting
"Keep Calm and Carry On, Stephen Harper," Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy, October 24, 2014
"Our Laws are up to the Homegrown Terror Threat," Benjamin Perrin - The Globe and Mail, October 25, 2014
Parsing Brazil's Election Results
"Rousseff Must Fight the Second-Term Blues," Jewellord Nem Singh - Real Clear World, October 27, 2014
"Brazil Election Results: What to Expect From Dilma's Second Term," Kevin Lees - Suffragio, October 26, 2014
"Under Rousseff or Neves, Brazil's Left Will Remain Powerful," Daniel Lemaitre - Real Clear World, October 26, 2014
Ukraine after the Vote
"Ukraine Votes, With More Strife to Come," Leonid Bershidsky - Bloomberg View, October 27, 2014
"Ukrainians Vote to Face West," Matt Schiavenza - The Atlantic, October 26, 2014
"Ukraine Election Exit Polls: The New Parliament Will Resist Putin and Defend Ukraine," Paul Roderick Gregory - Forbes, October 26, 2014
"And Now For Hybrid Politics," Elizabeth Pond - German Council on Foreign Relations, October 27, 2014
Russia
"Russia's Empire State of Mind," Pyotr Romanov - The Moscow Times, October 26, 2014
"Wake Up, Europe," George Soros - The New York Review of Books, November 20, 2014, Volume 61, Number 18
Watching China
"Can China Rise Peacefully?" John J. Mearsheimer - The National Interest, October 25, 2014
"Not Made in China," Nathan Siegel - Ozy, October 28, 2014
"New Rules for China's War on Terror?" Kendrick Kuo and Johns Hopkins - East Asia Forum, October 25, 2014
"China Pivots to Europe," Paul Ames - Global Post, October 23, 2014
The Koreas
"North Korea Enlists the Help of Cuba and China in Shielding Kim Jong Un From ICC," Colum Lynch - Foreign Policy, October 24, 2014
"Korea's Branding Woes," Luke Stanhope - The Diplomat, October 26, 2014
Postcard from Vietnam
"Vietnam's Tale of Two Cities," Elisabeth Rosen - The Diplomat, October 24, 2014
Tunisia and the Arab Spring
"Tunisia Boldly Embraces Democracy," Jackson Diehl - The Washington Post, October 26, 2014
"The Tunisia Model," Brian Klaas and Marcel Dirsus - Foreign Affairs, October 23, 2014
ISIS Funding and the Next Generation of Fighters
"Cutting off ISIS' Cash Flow," Charles Lister - Brookings, October 24, 2014
"The World's Wealthiest Terrorists," Russell Berman - The Atlantic, October 23, 2014
"Children of the Caliphate," Kate Brannen - Foreign Policy, October 27, 2014
Israel and its Neighbors
"The Arab World Needs All the Help it Can Get," Jake Wallis Simons - The Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2014
"Israel's Baffling Policies Only Encourage a Third Intifada," Hussein Ibish - The National, October 25, 2014
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