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US LED URANIUM SUPPLY CHINA: INVOLVES RUSSIA AND OTHERS & GERMANY'S FAILED ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY10/13/2018
Merkel's Approach to Israel Has Not Progressed
By Dr. George N. Tzogopoulos, October 15, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: German-Israeli relations are difficult in view of Germany’s Nazi past. Angela Merkel does not ignore her country’s history, and has played a significant role in strengthening the bilateral relationship. However, new security challenges and problems require solutions. Merkel’s recent visit to Jerusalem showed that her approach to Israel needs readjustment to address urgent issues on a practical, not only a theoretical, level. Continue to full article -> A PROBLEM FOR INDIA, RUSSIA: OLIGARCHY, INNOVATION & HOW DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS A WAR ON THE POOR10/9/2018  In The Spotlight: Russia's Future Examined, Innovation Urged via Hoover Daily Report A top-down model of governance in Russia hinders innovation, prosperity, and freedom in a country already facing brain drain and an aging population, experts said at a recent Hoover event. On Wednesday, the Hoover Institution kicked off the Governance in an Emerging New World project led by Senior Fellow George P. Shultz. Through discussions and research papers, the effort will explore some of humanity’s most challenging issues over the course of the 2018–19 academic year. Instead of shutting out global expertise, India needs more of it. Finish the op-ed here. Gita Gopinath and India’s brain drain
Sadanand Dhume | The Wall Street Journal Gita Gopinath’s appointment as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes clear that Western economic expertise is more welcome today in the IMF than in the Indian government.  No country for Naipaul
Sadanand Dhume | Times of India That India’s Nehruvian establishment would be allergic to Naipaul should come as no surprise. The pettiness of India's two main political parties helps explain why the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul did not receive the national recognition that he deserved in India. 
 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is not alleged “religionization” that threatens Israeli identity and deepens the cleavages in Israeli society but the absence of a mutually accepted contemporary Jewish common ground.
Continue to full article ->  When Britain Stood Up at Bruges Our Brexit Diarist Remembers the Speech That Summoned Britain to Freedom By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | September 20, 2018 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/when-britain-stood-up-in-bruges/90394/ Ghosts of the Thatcher CoupIt's Six Months to Brexit, Our Diarist Notes
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | September 16, 2018 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/six-months-before-brexit/90389/  From Victorian virtues to modern values with Gertrude Himmelfarb
Wilson Shirley and Gertrude Himmelfarb | "Bradley Lecture Series"  Mattis: ‘I don’t think about leaving. I love it here’ (Military Times) Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he isn’t going anywhere, yet. Mattis to Spicer: ‘I’ve killed people for a living. If you call me again, I’m going to f--king send you to Afghanistan’ (Military Times) Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis didn’t favorably receive former Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s repeated requests to get the retired Marine Corps general to appear on numerous talk shows, according to an excerpt from Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House." Fraying Ties With Trump Put Jim Mattis’s Fate in Doubt
By Helene Cooper, The New York Times: ““Secretary Mattis is probably one of the most qualified individuals to hold that job,” Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an interview. His departure from the Pentagon, Mr. Reed said, “would, first of all, create a disruption in an area where there has been competence and continuity.”  Six Leadership Fallacies
By L. Burton Brender, Small Wars Journal: “Falling for a leadership fallacy can see the wrong person advanced and drive the right people away.”  China Leadership Monitor Issue 57 via Hoover Daily Report The fall issue of the China Leadership Monitor is now available online. The China Leadership Monitor seeks to inform the American foreign policy community about current trends in China's leadership politics and in its foreign and domestic policies. Valedictory: Analyzing The Chinese Leadership In An Era Of Sex, Money, And Power
by Alice L. Miller via China Leadership Monitor This article, my last as Monitor general editor and contributor, offers perspectives on the methods of analyzing Chinese leadership politics today.
Modi abandons reform for populist nostrums
Sadanand Dhume | The Wall Street Journal Prime Minister Narendra Modi once styled himself as a business-friendly reformer, but these days he sounds more like a Latin American populist. In his appeal to voters, Modi champions welfare schemes for the poor. His government has raised trade barriers, retreated from privatization, and appointed a nativist ideologue opposed to foreign investment to the board of the central bank.  Did Germany Win The 100-Year War?
by Victor Davis Hanson via Defining Ideas The country has gradually reassumed its historic continental influence.  Painting at Empire’s End
The work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele shows us what art looked like in Central Europe before the lights went out. |
Introduction to Eric Hoffer's Classic "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements".
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EXAMPLE OF SUCCESS IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ACE VENTURA
PAUL RAHE: REALISM IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SPARTA
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