International Affairs - Update

Presidential Politics and US Foreign Policy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/barack-obama-is-now-alone-in-washington/2016/09/01/4d2e1348-7080-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html

Beijing's New Silk Road to Europe - Der Spiegel
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-is-building-new-silk-road-to-central-asia-and-europe-a-1110148.html

FT piece - China foreign policy: Throwing out the rule book

https://www.ft.com/content/810b4510-6ea4-11e6-9ac1-1055824ca907

The Demise of a Central Asian Dictator

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/09/02/islam-karimov-uzbek-president--obituary/

“Islam Karimov, the Uzbek president, who has died aged 78, was one of the nastiest of the dictators who rose to power in central Asia following the collapse of the Soviet Union; yet he was a man with whom the West was prepared to do business and regarded as a “key ally” in the US-led war against terror.”

Related:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/02/uzbekistan-uncertainty-death-dictator-islam-karimov

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/opinion/independence-day-for-a-scared-nation.html