Current Events Reading: 1/25

Please read and come prepared to discuss the following articles in the latest edition of The Economist:

• The World This Week: Politics (p. 6)
• US Foreign Policy
• Barack Obama: How Will History See Me? (pp. 9-10)
• American Foreign Policy: Time to Engage (p. 26-8)
• Israel
• Israel's Election: Don't Give Up (p. 10)
• Israel's Election: Which Way for Binyamin Netanyahu? (pp. 50-1)
• Mali
• France, Mali and Algeria: Get Stuck in But Don't Get Stuck (p. 11)
• The Crisis in Mali and Algeria: Jihad in the Sahara (pp. 49-50)
• France's President: François Hollande's New War Trappings (pp. 53-4)
• Charlemagne: Europe in a Foreign Field (p. 57)
• Senkaku/Diaoyu Crisis
• The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Dangerous Shoals (pp. 12-4)
• China and Japan Square Up: The Drums of War (pp. 43-4)
• Britain
• Euroscepticism: A Tory Taxonomy (p. 59)
• Bagehot: Slimming the Ranks (p. 60)
• A History of Guerrilla Warfare: How the Weak Vanquish the Strong (pp. 80-1)

As you read, take notes on who the primary actors are, what are they doing, and what explanations the modern paradigms (defensive realist, offensive realist and liberal institutionalist) provide us as to why they are doing so.