The Rohingya crisis. Also, Norway, France, and yes, North Korea.

US Institute of Peace interview

Diplomat Podcast

International Crisis Group statement

The legacy of 9/11. Plus, natural disasters and North Korea.

And a sick burn on an entire sport.

Brazil's political challenges. Plus, Syria/Israel, North Korea, US, ruby chocolate.

CFR article mentioned

More on Brazilian corruption

More on Brazilian economy

BBC article on murdered Indian journalist

Russia / NK NYT article

Pakistan / BRICS

Dawn editorial referenced

Reconstruction in Syria

Main article discussed today

Mentioned in the Podcast that it was a UN report, it was actually a World Bank report

Autonomous weapons. Also, Colombia and Hurricane Irma.

Some great resources on autonomous weapons:

Belfer Center report (mentioned)

NYT article

Atlantic article

Why we shouldn't ban autonomous weapons

Association for Computing Machinery piece on how a ban could work

Kenya's election nullified. Also, North Korea and DACA

North Korea

Podcast on why sanctions might work

Article on why they might not

DACA

Politico article referenced

Kenya

NYT article referenced

Article about Kenya not being ready for re-do

What's next for the grocery industry? Plus, Israel and Lebanon.

What can we do to stop NK's nuclear ICBM program? Also, South Asian flooding.

What's going on in Turkey? Plus, North Korea (again) and Cuba.

Really good assessment of NK threat

Early 2000s Turkey sources

CNN on 2001 crisis

Economist on 2001 crisis

NYT on Erdogan in 2003

More recent pieces

Awesome read on Gulen (!!!)

Soner Cagaptay in the Atlantic

NYT on constitutional referendum

FEMA's Natural Disaster Recovery Framework. Plus, India / China and ISIS.

Questions? Thoughts? Dreams?

[email protected]

Small Batch Twitter

Rob's bank account number

Lot of sources today; you don't want to read most of them.

FEMA's NDRF (don't read)

GAO's NDRF audit (definitely no Tolkien)

New York State's NDRF report (dense)

PBS excerpts from interviews from experts on Katrina (interesting)

Brookings article on mitigation

Houston's city preparedness plan

Houston's 15-minute video telling you to make a disaster kit