The 10 Best Articles on International Security Concerns this week
Each week we provide a collection of 10 must reads from around the web on issues pertaining to international security. Simply click the article title to open a new tab.
This week’s top 10 (in alphabetical order) are:
Afghanistan’s Failed Transformation
The New York Times
If the country is to survive in one piece, its new leaders must act fast to correct the failures of the last decade.
The Economist
The general has had a good first 100 days – at the cost of political freedom.
A New Focus on Foreign Fighters
The New York Times
The United Nations Security Council should take on the growing threat of foreign fighters, but it must adhere to the rule of law and human rights.
Avoiding old mistakes in the new game of Islamic politics
The Washington Post
Policymakers should avoid a return to the pattern of opportunistic alignments with autocrats that serve U.S. policy well in the short term at tremendous long-term cost.
A year after Mali war ends, is justice too long delayed?
The Christian Science Monitor
The Malian government pledged to offer redress to those harmed in 2012-13 when radicals tried to turn the north into a caliphate. But so far it has not delivered.
Foreign Policy
So far Tunisia’s revolution has managed to bridge the gap between secularists and Islamists. But can that precarious accord make it through election season?
Carnegie Europe
The last thing that Europe needs is another frozen conflict. But that is what is happening in eastern Ukraine after Russian and Ukrainian leaders met in Minsk on September 19 to agree to a buffer zone between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels.
Foreign Affairs
Residents of Ukraine are frustrated and anxious. Facing increasing economic hardship, they have little hope that things will get better. Indeed, things couldn’t get much worse.
Foreign Policy
Why al Qaeda might be the biggest winner of America’s airstrikes on the Islamic State.
The New Yorker
The White House wants the Kurds to help save Iraq from ISIS. The Kurds may be more interested in breaking away.
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