
Links – May 8, 2018
What Russia wants most – derzhavnost means both being a great power and being recognized as such by others. It explains a lot.
What North Korea needs to give up for peace with South Korea. This seems analogous to the Soviet Union’s foreign policy before 1989. This is what would be necessary to monitor a deal with North Korea – much more complex than Iran’s agreement, which Trump is now savaging. Top photo from here: A nuclear inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Iran in 2014. CreditKazem Ghane/European Pressphoto Agency
Probably the best piece around on Benjamin Netanyahu’s spectacle on the Iran deal.
The OPCW concluded that the chemical agent used on the Skripals in Salisbury, England was “concluded that the chemical substance found was of high purity, persistent and resistant to weather conditions.”
How they do it – open source intelligence at Middlebury’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies.