Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
Boris Kustodiev, ‘The Merchant’s Wife’, 1918. Via Wikimedia.
What I read this week:
Roger Cohen reviews Vali Nasr’s upcoming book: “Diplomacy is tough and carries a price, but the price is higher when it is abandoned.”
A new report shows Mexican security forces responsible for numerous disappearances.
Pope Benedict will remain in the Vatican after resigning, reportedly to retain legal immunity.
More on the flawed, too-big-to-fail F-35.
A new CNAS report by Colin Kahl, Melissa G. Dalton and Matthew Irvine asks whether an Iranian nuclear weapon would spur Saudi Arabia to seek the bomb.
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