It’s the Ides of March. Be careful out there. Here’s a random selection of this week’s reads:
- How Fear made America. Scott Lemieux reviews Ira Katznelson’s new book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.
- Anatol Levien questions the “endgame” in Afghanistan.
- Ken Roth asks what rules should govern drone attacks.
- Charles Hunt on the on-going challenges of peacekeeping in DRC.
- North Korean propaganda video of life in the United States.
- Missed this earlier — the four stages of Putinism.
- The guy who put internet freedom on the “grown-ups table” is leaving the State Department.
- Larry Diamond is running a MOOC on Democracy Development course through Coursera. Begins April 1.
And….
- Follow the light and you will find which economies are growing.
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
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