 Catholic Geopolitics The Pope, Erdogan, Syria, and Ukraine By Victor Gaetan
While in Turkey, the pope will publicly demonstrate his respect and affection for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I as part of an ongoing, 50-year dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox. The pope also aims to boost the standing of the beleaguered patriarch in the face of a...
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 Can Greenland Race Ahead?Letter From Nuuk By Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and Mads Nyvold
In the run up to last week's snap election in Greenland, uranium mining was high on the agenda. But economic independence from Denmark, which such mining could bring, seems further off than ever.
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 Blood MoneyHow ISIS Makes Bank By Louise Shelley
A key element of U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategy against ISIS has been striking at the oil fields seized by the group to undermine its finances. But ISIS is a diversified criminal business, and oil is only one of its several revenue streams. U.S. officials ignore that...
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 Not Alright With Syria's AlawitesGrowing Resentment Splinters Assad’s Power Base By Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai
Since the start of the Syrian conflict, the country’s Alawites have kept President Bashar al-Assad in power. But there are signs that he is now losing their support.
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 Promises to KeepCrafting Better Development Goals By Bjorn Lomborg
The Millennium Development Goals are due to expire at the end of 2015, and debate has turned to what should come next, with hundreds of new targets already proposed. Governments need to focus carefully and decide which goals offer the greatest returns on investment.
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 Partitions in PracticeThe Case Against Dividing Iraq By Nicholas Sambanis and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
The usual argument for partition is that, once ethnic or sectarian fighting gets too bloody, nobody can put Humpty Dumpty back together again. The argument seems intuitive, but it rests on a flawed premise.
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 Empty PromisesWhy France Won't Deliver for the Palestinians By Rory Miller
Tomorrow, the French National Assembly is set to vote on a resolution recognizing a Palestinian state. Although the act would be nonbinding, the vote is a referendum on whether France can follow through on its claim as the West's truest champion of the...
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 Running the Pentagon RightHow to Get the Troops What They Need By Ashton B. Carter
The Department of Defense is good at anticipating future military needs but not at responding quickly to immediate technological challenges on the battlefield. This is how we tried to get around that problem in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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 Forgotten ChildrenWhat Romania Can Tell Us About Institutional Care By Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, and Charles H. Zeanah
Today, orphanages are common in many parts of the world. But a look at young people who spent their childhoods in institutions in Romania reveals just how developmentally damaging such places can be.
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 Withdrawal SymptomsThe Bungling of the Iraq Exit By Rick Brennan
The destabilizing consequences of Washington’s hasty withdrawal from Iraq were not only foreseeable, but foreseen by U.S. military planners and commanders. To avoid a similar disaster in Afghanistan, President Obama must not make the same errors.
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 Exit MusicDid Obama Bungle the Iraq Withdrawal? By Lawrence J. Korb; Rick Brennan
Korb argues that Iraqi politicians and American generals are to blame for the bungled withdrawal from Iraq. Brennan replies.
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 Israel's Tangled DemocracyWhy Governments Will Keep Falling By Brent E. Sasley
The Israeli election process is complicated and volatile. This makes it interesting to watch, but difficult—if not impossible—to predict. No matter who wins in March, the government would have to be an exception to the rule to last out its full term.
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