Dealing with North Korea

"Strategic Clarity on North Korea," Christopher R. Hill - Project Syndicate, December 30, 2014
 

"New Sanctions Let Pyongyang Play the Victim," Michael Auslin - The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2015
 

"Better Than New Sanctions: Could Obama's Cuba Strategy Work on North Korea?" Ted Galen Carpenter - The National Interest, January 3, 2015 

Cuba - What Happens Next?

"U.S.-Cuban Relations: Lessons from China and the Soviet Bloc," James Lockhart - War on the Rocks, December 31, 2014
 

"Lessons Cuba Can Learn from East Germany," Diana Villiers Negroponte - Newsweek, January 5, 2015

Cold War Redux?

"A New Cold War Order?" Mikhail Gorbachev - Project Syndicate, January 5, 2015
 

"US and Russia in Danger of Returning to Era of Nuclear Rivalry," Julian Borger - The Guardian, January 4, 2015
 

"Decoding Vladimir Putin's Plan," Joshua Kucera - U.S. News & World Report, January 5, 2015
 

"Remote Control: Can an Exiled Oligarch Persuade Russia that Putin Must Go?" Julia Ioffe - The New Yorker, January 12, 2015 

Hotter Wars

"Hammer and Anvil: How to Defeat ISIS," Robert A. Pape, Keven Ruby, and Vincent Bauer - Foreign Affairs, January 2, 2015

"All is Not Lost in Afghanistan," James Stavridis - Foreign Policy, January 5, 2015

Middle East Round-Up

"Can the Middle East Navigate Democracy?" Mark P. Lagon and Zachary Laub - Council on Foreign Relations, December 30, 2014

"The UN, the PA, and the Peace Process," Paul R. Pillar - The National Interest, January 2, 2015
 

"Bad Choices: Why is the Netanyahu Government Freezing These Funds in the First Place?" JPost Editorial - The Jerusalem Post, January 4, 2015
 

"Islam Will Not Have its Own Reformation," Nick Danforth - Foreign Policy, January 2, 2015

Greece Threatens to Leave Euro Zone - Again

"Grexit Grumblings: Germany Open to Possible Greek Euro Zone Exit," Nikolaus Blome, Giorgos Christides, Christian Reiermann, and Gregor Peter Schmitz - Spiegel Online International, January 5, 2015

"Why Europe Still Can't Afford a Greek Exit," Carol Matlack - BloombergBusinessweek, January 5, 2015
 

"Germany Should Not Scoff at Greece," Marcel Michelson - Forbes, January 4, 2015
 

"The Odds of Greece Leaving the Euro Have Never Been Higher," Matt O'Brien - The Washington Post, December 29, 2014

"Berlin Insists it Expects Greece to Remain in Eurozone," Stefan Wagstyl - Financial Times, January 4, 2015

A look back at 2014...

"The Foreign Policy Story of the Year," David Rothkopf - Foreign Policy, December 31, 2014
 

"The Birth of a New Century," George Packer - Foreign Policy, December 2014
 

"Why 2014 Went Wrong for the Eurozone," Simon Nixon - The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2015

...and, what to watch in 2015

"The World in 2015: Our Take on the Year Ahead," Roundtable Discussion with 10 Foreign Policy Experts - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

"Top Risks 2015," Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan - Eurasia Group, January 5, 2015

"2015 Watch: The Seven Great Powers," Walter Russell Mead - The American Interest, January 4, 2015
 

"2015: Seven Global Summits That Deserve Your Attention," Stewart M. Patrick - Council of Councils, Dec 22, 2014

"Ten Elections to Watch in 2015," James M. Lindsay - Council on Foreign Relations, December 8, 2014
 

"10 Wars to Watch in 2015," Jean-Marie Guéhenno - Foreign Policy, January 2, 2015
 

"The Middle East in 2015: What to Watch," Joseph Bahout, et al. - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 29, 2014
 

"Africa in 2015: A New Year's Guide," Simon Allison - Daily Maverick, January 5, 2015
 

"Will 2015 be Africa's Year to Shine?" John Campbell - The National Interest, January 2, 2015
 

"2015: The Year of the Bear? 5 Ways Russia Can Regroup," Nikolas K. Gvosdev - The National Interest, January 4, 2015
 

"Why 2015 Might Well be Mankind's Happiest New Year," Fraser Nelson - The Spectator, December 26, 2014

"The World is Not Falling Apart," Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack - Slate, December 22, 2014
 

"Prospects for the Global Economy in 2015," Robert Kahn, et al. - Council on Foreign Relations, December 23, 2014
 

"Forget 2015 - 2050 Is The Year For Predictions," Zoë Schlanger - Newsweek, January 4, 2015