Since the Islamic State seized Mosul last summer, there has been a great deal of time spent discussing the dysfunctional nature of the Sykes-Picot border
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These Will Be the World’s 20 Largest Economies in 2030 -Bloomberg Business
Take it all with a big grain of salt, but it is interesting none the less. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-10/the-world-s-20-largest-economies-in-2030
Brazil’s coming recession: The crash of a titan -The Economist
A gloomy look at Brazil’s economic woes and the state’s increasingly ineffective economic policy instruments: “Faced with (two) poisonous options, a middle path is most
Reducing Yemen’s Houthis to ‘Iranian proxies’ is a mistake -CSMonitor
A good critique of the standard argument that the Houthis are controlled by Iran. The religious connections between Iran and the Houthis is thin. While
The Iran Nuclear Deal: World Reaction -various
Reaction to the deal has been fairly predictable: 1. The Canadian government is deeply skeptical, and Canadian sanctions will remain in place. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-nuclear-deal-gets-deeply-skeptical-response-from-canada-1.2438467 2. The
This is an astonishingly good Iran deal -VOX
Iran and the P5+1 have their deal. -Iran will give up about 14,000 of its 20,000 centrifuges. -Iran will give up all but its most
IR Theory & Practice 