Idiots in Charge

Robots and the Future of Warfare

Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/killer-robots-and-new-era-machine-driven-warfare/597130/ 

Negative Interest Rates and the Financial System

Americans are trying to get Denmark's negative-interest mortgages

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americans-are-trying-to-get-denmarks-negative-mortgages-143832101.html 

Negative Interest Rates Threaten the Financial System

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-03/negative-interest-rates-threaten-the-financial-system

The Last Thing Banks Need Is Even Lower Rates

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-19/last-thing-the-world-s-banks-need-is-lower-rates 

Slowing Global Economy

Can Anyone Hold the Global Economy Together?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/opinion/global-economy.html

Fears of a German recession are rising

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/29/fears-of-a-german-recession-are-rising

Is a global recession coming? Here are seven warning signs

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/25/is-a-global-recession-coming-here-are-seven-warning-signs

Related:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-23/the-world-economy-is-slipping-toward-recession-and-trump-isnt-helping

How to invest if you’re worried a recession is coming

http://theconversation.com/how-to-invest-if-youre-worried-a-recession-is-coming-122003

Economics of Long Distance Flights

Why would anyone want to sit on a plane for over 18 hours? An economist takes the world’s longest flight

https://theconversation.com/why-would-anyone-want-to-sit-on-a-plane-for-over-18-hours-an-economist-takes-the-worlds-longest-flight-122433 

Hungary's Troubled Democracy

How Viktor Orban hollowed out Hungary’s democracy

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/08/29/how-viktor-orban-hollowed-out-hungarys-democracy 

History, Misconceptions and Conflict in South Asia

Myths of Kashmir

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/jammu-kashmir-special-status-india-pakistan-china-terrorism-by-brahma-chellaney-2019-08
Standing up to China-Pak Nexus

https://openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/after-article-370-standing-up-to-china-pakistan-nexus/

Tilting at More than Windmills in South Asia

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/uncertain-american-policy-in-south-asia-by-richard-n-haass-2019-08

Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, notes:

“… the US would be unwise to turn to Pakistan as a strategic partner. Pakistan sees a friendly government in Kabul as vital to its security and competition with arch-rival India. There is little reason to believe that the military and intelligence services, which continue to run Pakistan, will rein in the Taliban or rule out terrorism.

Equally, the US would be unwise to alienate India.”

Washington Post op-ed on the Kashmir Conflict:

Pakistan’s response to Kashmir is only helping Modi. It should stay out of this.

C. Christine Fair, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, offers her take:

India’s Move in Kashmir: Unpacking the Domestic and International Motivations and Implications

https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/indias-move-in-kashmir-unpacking-the-domestic-and-international-motivations-and-implications/

Book Recommendations:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Partition-Making-India-Pakistan/dp/030023032X/

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Genocide/dp/0307744620/

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-End-Pakistan-Armys-Way/dp/0199892709/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610394739/