International relations

John Tirman, executive director at the MIT Center for International Studies, writes for WBUR about the latest developments in Iraq. Tirman ties the recent turmoil in the country to a legacy of American foreign policy missteps in the region.

Della Bradshaw of The Financial Times writes about Professor Andrei Kirilenko, who recently spent three-and-a-half weeks in Ukraine advising the country’s government on how to stabilize the economy. Kirilenko is a U.S. citizen who grew up in the Ukraine.