Subject: Editors' Picks: Why Oman is cozying up to Israel, and why Russia is bracing itself after the U.S. midterms
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EDITORS' PICKS

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11/07/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at the incoming class of U.S. lawmakers with military experience, how Vietnam’s septuagenarian autocrat is quietly taking a leaf out of Xi Jinping’s playbook, and how a 40-year-old essay by political theorist Isaiah Berlin tackles the nationalism of the present.

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THANK YOU, NEXT: Capitol Hill will have some new boots on the ground after the U.S. midterms. Of the 77 service members-turned-politicians elected last night, 17 are freshman lawmakers. This new group of veterans is likely to ramp up oversight of the U.S. military and prioritize deterring aggression from Russia and China, FP’s Lara Seligman reports.

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MOSCOW'S MIDTERM MALAISE: With Democrats taking control of Congress after the U.S. midterms, Moscow is bracing itself for more investigations, more sanctions, and more aggressive Russia policy from the United States, FP’s Amy Mackinnon and Robbie Gramer report.

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(S)TRONG LEADERSHIP: Xi Jinping lives in an imperial mansion, and heads a family of multimillionaires. Vietnamese Communist Party Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong lives in a run-down house near his government’s buildings, and is said to do his own laundry. But both men are still guided by the same playbook of authoritarian leadership, Bennett Murray writes.

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NEW NATIONALISM: Although he was writing 40 years ago, Isaiah Berlin’s observations in his final and most incisive work on nationalism go a long way toward unraveling the dynamics of today’s particular strains of nationalism, Robert Zaretsky writes.

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BRIDGING A GULF: In a departure from the status quo in the Persian Gulf, Oman’s sultan, Qaboos bin Said is strengthening ties with Israel in an effort to garner more support for his country in Washington, Steven A. Cook writes.

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