Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
Georges de La Tour, “The Fortune Teller”, between 1633 and 1639. Via Wikimedia.
What I read this week:
Fred Kaplan, Spencer Ackerman and Mark Bowden talk the foreign policy debate. See Erica Chenoweth and Oliver Kaplan as well.
US-Russian nuclear cooperation is not dead. Relatedly, the possibility of eliminating Russia’s nuclear-armed Moscow ABM defense.
Hyping AirSea Battle (via Jonathan Rue).
Why Romney is the war candidate. Daniel Larison has more. While it’s important to take anything a candidate says debating with a grain of salt, I think Romney’s absolute refusal to even consider the possibility of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran is worrying on a signaling basis.
With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn’t rate in presidential debate.
Broken BRICs: “the notion of wide-ranging convergence between the developing and the developed worlds is a myth.”
The risks of ignoring strategic insolvency (via Matthew Hill).
Psychology and security: Enduring questions, different answers.
Smoke & Stir 