A roundup of some of the content published today by Brookings.
- Whither Putin’s Olympic spirit? Brookings President Strobe Talbott argues that Putin is taking a winner-take-all approach to Ukraine and the world.
- Ukraine’s perpetual balancing act. Steven Pifer explains why Ukraine’s leaders have often sought to have it both ways between the West and Russia.
- Arab world’s learning crisis. In a new Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Hafez Ghanem and Liesbet Steer talk about the bleak picture for childrens’ learning in the Arab world.
- America’s ambivalence. Robert Kagan observes that “the world never really loved America as much as Americans like to think.
Commentary
Brookings Today, 2/28/14
February 28, 2014