Real Clear World Tuesday

Paranoid Putin's New Praetorian Guard - Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Migration Won't Damage the Euro Economy - Barry Andrews, Irish Times
Cameron's Offshore Chickens Come Home to Roost - Alex Massie, FP
Putin Fills U.S. Void in Nagorno-Karabakh - Matthew Bryza, Wash Post
Brazil's Anti-Leftist Witch Hunt - Leonardo Avritzer, Boston Review
U.S. Must Respond to China's Maritime Bullying - John McCain, FT
The Growing North American Opioid Crisis - Margaret Wente, Globe&Mail
Will Israel's Defense Minister Split from Likud? - Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Iran's Intellectuals, Going Underground - Ali Gharib, New Republic

RCW Morning Edition

What Ted Cruz Gets Right About Islamism - Hassan Mneimneh, RCWorld
Will Israel Reach Age 100? - Aaron David Miller, RealClearWorld
Islam and the Radical West - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
The End of the American Empire - Chas Freeman, War on the Rocks
After the Election Circus, a Return to Stability - David Rothkopf, FP
From Dignity to Shame in Ukraine - Mikhail Minakov, Carnegie Europe
New Leadership, Same Old Ukraine - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Day After Brexit: A Nightmare on Downing Street - Gideon Rachman, FT
Does Anyone Care About China's U.S. Buying Spree? - P. Smith, Fis. Times
China's 'Use It or Lose It' Grand Strategy - Parag Khanna, National Interest
An ISIS-Held City Is on the Verge of Starvation - Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Leaving a Small Syrian Democracy Out in the Cold - Saleh Mohamed, NYT
Poland Aborts Freedom - Maciej Kisilowski, Project Syndicate
Why Did Egypt's President Sell Islands to the Saudis? - Juan Cole, Nation
Canada's Trudeau Prioritizes Pipelines - John Ivison, National Post

Editorials

Europe's Urgent Security Challenge - New York Times
Restating the Case for Free Enterprise - Telegraph
How to Ensure the Success of British Steel? - The Scotsman
The Global Shell Game - Japan Times

Research & Analysis

Can Ukraine Achieve a Reform Breakthrough? - Chatham House
Brexit Battle Lines Drawn - Council on Foreign Relations
The Global Diplomacy Index 2016 - Lowy Institute
Can Iraq Set Back the Islamic State? - Council on Foreign Relations

Real Clear World Monday

Morning Update
Putin's War of Smoke and Mirrors - Eerik Niiles Kross, Politico EU
Don't Let the Reds Plant a Flag Over London - Boris Johnson, Telegraph
Putin's New Praetorians - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
How to Actually Win in Iraq - Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
Israel's Unsung Protector: Barack Obama - Lara Friedman, NY Times
Bernie Sanders and the Future of U.S.-Israel Ties - Seth Frantzman, J-Post
7 Soviet Tips for a Successful Police State - Mark Harrison, Conversation
Welcome to the Tory Wars - Simon Heffer, New Statesman
Now We Will See How Close Vietnam Can Get to U.S. - Xuan Loc Doan, AT
Britain's Doomed Romantic Notions - Matthew Pennekamp, Nat'l Interest
Will China Ever Get Its Own Cinematic Superhero? - A. Kao, China File
What Ever Happened to That Iranian Bomb? - Raviv Drucker, Haaretz
The Real Impact of Killing ISIS Leaders - Hassan Hassan, The National
Once Upon a Time in the Cosmopolitan East - Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera
Are the Kurds Peeling Away Turkey-U.S. Ties? - Murat Yetkin, Hurriyet
Will a Blacklisted Iranian Singer Soon Return? - R. Faghihi, Al-Monitor
Italy Builds a Winemaking Robot - Miriam Massone, Worldcrunch

Afternoon Update
The Islamic State of Molenbeek - Roger Cohen, New York Times
Left-Wing Pieties Collide in Western Europe - Heather MacDonald, CJ
The Global Liberal Order Can Ill Afford Brexit - Joseph Nye, Project Syn.
Obama's Biggest Mistake Isn't Libya. It's Syria. - Josh Rogin, Bloomberg
Meet Obama's Man in Africa - Siobhan O'Grady, Foreign Policy
Brazil's Nightmare: No End in Sight - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Mosul Win Won't Solve U.S.'s Iraq Problem - Rovner & Talmadge, Lawfare
Why Iran Is Loath to Rejoin the Global Economy - Ray Takeyh, CFR

Real Clear World Sunday

Morning Update
End America's Hopeless War for the Mideast - Andrew Bacevich, Politico
The Global Vote of No Confidence in Pax Americana - Walter Mead, TAI
Lessons from the Dutch - Watch the Fringe - Nick Cohen, The Guardian
Can ISIS Be Defeated Without the Kurds? - Fehim Tastekin, Al-Monitor
"Of Course He Knew He Was Going to Kill Children" - Liz Sly, Wash Post
The World Is More Equal - Why Aren't We Happy? - Doug Saunders, G&M
How Turkey's Reform Project Ended in Isolation - Michael Werz, Spiegel
The Tories Have a National Problem - James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph
Al-Qaida Has Its Own Mini-State in Yemen - Bayoumy et al., Reuters
Latin America's Forecast: Deeper Recession - Andres Oppenheimer, MH
U.S.-Gulf Ties: Frayed, But Not Beyond Repair - Hussein Ibish, National
Punjab's Militancy Problem - Muhammad Amir Rana, Dawn
Bernie Sanders' Refreshing Candor on Israel - Asher Schechter, Haaretz
Sanders Smears Israel - Matthew Continetti, National Review
A 25-Year Journey from Sierra Leone to Spain - Wil Sands, Narratively

Real Clear World Saturday

Morning Update
How Dutch Referendum Shows Russia's Power - Anne Applebaum, WaPo
A Dutch Middle Finger to Their Own Establishment - A. Grunberg, Pol. EU
France Confronts Germany on Defense: Bad Omen - George Friedman, GF
Germany Takes Aim at the European Central Bank - Der Spiegel
The Vatican's Liberal Dictator - Steve Skojec, Foreign Policy
The Pope Empowers Catholics - Randy Boyagoda, New York Times
Should We Want Super-States or City-States? - Noah Smith, Bloom. View
China Repeats the West's Mistakes - Adair Turner, Project Syndicate
Ukraine on Fire - Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Pro-War Dead-Enders and Endless War - Daniel Larison, Am. Conservative
Hungary Takes the Gloves Off Over Migrants - Oliver Lane, Breitbart
Russia's Interest in Nagorno-Karabakh - Antonia Colibasanu, RCWorld
The Next U.S. President's Foreign Policy - Stratfor
Hope for a Free Russia? - Wall Street Journal
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Real Clear World Friday

Morning Update
To the Future President of the United States - Reva Goujon, Stratfor
Obama Was Not a Realist President - Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Will Russia and China Become Allies? - Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
Christianity Is Booming in South Korea - Dave Hazzan, The Diplomat
Give Greece a Break Already - Kaj Leers, RealClearWorld
The Dutch Are Right to Snub Kyiv - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Euroskeptics to the Dutch: Dank Je Wel! - Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
The UK PM and Panama: Bad Spin, Pointless Smear - F. Nelson, Spectator
Peru's Election: Echoes of a Strongman - Kevin Lees, Suffragio
Could U.S.-Russia Tensions Heat the Arctic? - K Yalowitz & V Gallucci, TNI
Are the Russians Behind the Panama Papers? - Clifford Gaddy, Brookings
Panama Papers Expose Putin's Achilles Heel - Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
In Russia, Being Clever Is Not a Crime - Maxim Trudolyubov, Wilson Center
Solve This Conflict Before the Caucasus Explode - Thomas de Waal, NYT
Trump Is Right, NATO Is Obsolete - Mary Dejevsky, Independent
The EU: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - Conference on World Affairs
The Great Exaggeration of the ISIS Threat - The Atlantic

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