Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Foreign-related links

 About 1 in 30 links I haven't actually read yet (they show up in the text editor). There is a post on currency in Baathist Iraq (a lecture by Mervyn King) that was borderline.

Back in Black | Foreign Affairs Generation Kill | Foreign Affairs A History of Future Cities: The Rise of New Shanghai: Places: Design Observer Noahpinion: Django Unchained: A white revenge fantasy New Left Review - Mark Elvin: The Historian as Haruspex Lost and Found at the Kumbh Mela - NYTimes.com How Afghanistan Is on the Leading Edge of a Tech Revolution | TIME.com Why Kosovo matters | World news | guardian.co.uk Edward L Fox – No drama King Obama Is China more democratic than Russia? | openDemocracy Blame Iraq, not America, for sectarian civil war - Comment - Voices - The Independent Matt Miller: Paul Ryan is no Ronald Reagan - The Washington Post [Miscellany] | A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz, by Andrew J. Bacevich | Harper's Magazine The Iraq War: A Tentative Defence 10 Years On | The Oxford Student The war in Iraq was wrong. But the anti-war movement has very little to be smug about - Comment - Voices - The Independent The Iraq War: A resolute rebuttal | The Oxford Student Did Democrats Get Lucky in the Electoral College? - NYTimes.com Germany doesn’t like its own fiscal union, so why would it ever agree upon a European one? | Bond Vigilantes Watch The Throne | The Caravan - A Journal of Politics and Culture Narratives of war | TLS Britain’s military complex | Inside Story Adam Shatz reviews ‘Days of God’ by James Buchan · LRB 25 April 2013 Consanguinity as a Major Predictor of Levels of Democracy: A Study of 70 Nations Criticise it all you want, Germany is not going to drop austerity – Telegraph Blogs Politics is not here to please you Brad DeLong : What It Was Like to Oppose the Iraq War in 2003: Hoisted from the Internet Iraq War 10-Year Anniversary Twitter / BILD: 1. Dänemark 2. Aserbaidschan ... German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up - Telegraph As a Muslim, I struggle with the idea of homosexuality – but I oppose homophobia The banking crisis as a giant carry trade gone wrong | vox Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns - Fria Tider hobbesiantrap.pdf Moneyness: Disowned currency: the odd case of Iraqi Swiss Dinars scm_news_1.1.nws_backart1_1_0.jpg (JPEG Image, 3842 × 6263 pixels) - Scaled (12%) Welcome to Mogadishu - FT.com Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India by Anirban Mitra, Debraj Ray :: SSRN The Big Mac Index goes to North Korea: Cheeseburger in Paradise Island | The Economist Chinese monetary policy, with Maoist characteristics | FT Alphaville Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating - Telegraph Egypt: we may despise the Muslim Brotherhood, but a coup is a coup | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer Did Amnesty International unwittingly assist the Egyptian military in its bloody crackdown on protesters? – Telegraph Blogs The Economics of Political Islam | The Ümlaut The Global Elite’s Favorite Strongman - NYTimes.com In the hills of Michoacan, self-defense groups battle a Mexican drug cartel - The Washington Post Lawfare › A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines - bermanfeltershapiro09_nber.pdf RoadMap.pdf Bring back the United States of Pork - Ideas - The Boston Globe Government Shutdown 2013: Gerrymandering Isn't To Blame | New Republic The Ugly Side of Social Capital | The Ümlaut The curse of unnatural resources: aid, institutions and civil wars - curseofaid_final.pdf We were all wrong about Baroness Ashton. She may save the Iran nuclear talks – Telegraph Blogs Reuters Investigates - Assets of the Ayatollah Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb? - NYTimes.com Special Report: 'Great Satan' meets 'Axis of Evil' and strikes a deal | Reuters Borderland Beat: Interview with US Defense Attorney turned Tijuana Narcojunior. France fights back against German 'Sick Man of Europe' – Telegraph Blogs Congo: Waiting for M24 or a real window of opportunity? – By Kris BerwoutsAfrican Arguments | African Arguments How Doug Band drove a wedge through the Clinton dynasty | New Republic Apocalypse, New Jersey: Matt Taibbi's Dispatch From Camden, America's Most Desperate Town | Culture News | Rolling Stone Fethullah Gülen: Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's Biggest Rival | New Republic China's Radical Reforms | Foreign Affairs Sunni leader said Iraq followed U.S. advice in crisis | Journal and Courier | jconline.com Our Currency, Your Problem | Hoover Institution The Iraqi Cabinet Decides to Form Three New Governorates « Iraq and Gulf Analysis frbsf_aepc_2013_presentation_slides.dvi - frbsf_aepc_presentation_slides.pdf The nature of war has changed, which is bleak news for Syria’s minorities - Comment - Voices - The Independent Can the Taleban outwrestle the government? An assessment of the insurgency's military capability | Afghanistan Analysts Network Tech is shining a light in India's darkest places | Shubhranshu Choudhary | Comment is free | theguardian.com n+1: Ukraine, Putin, and the West New Statesman | Leaving Afghanistan: is it finally time to be positive about this blighted nation? Sign Warfare - Asymptote Bin Laden's special complaint with the World Trade Center. Dexter Filkins: What We Left Behind in Iraq : The New Yorker

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