Real Clear World Friday

A Nuclear Arabia - Yochi Dreazen, National Journal
Envisioning a Deal With Iran - Luers & Pickering, New York Times
Israel Won't Rest Until Hezbollah Annihilated - Con Coughlin, Telegraph
Regional 'Great Game' Produces Syrian Deadlock - Tony Karon, Time
Why a War in Europe Is Not Impossible - Ovidiu Nahoi, Eurozine
Russian Protests Echo U.S. Civil Rights Movement - Leon Aron, CSM
Obama's Turn on Nuclear Weapons - Joseph Cirincione, Foreign Affairs
Why Is Britain Giving Money to India? - Abhijit Pandya, Daily Mail
Canada's Long Game on China - Joseph Caron & Wenran Jiang, National Post
Sudan Tests China's Foreign Policy - Daniel Large, World Politics Review
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Best of Blogs

What Will America Learn from Her Lost Wars? - Raoul Heinrichs, Pnyx
Russia's Syrian Hypocrisy - Alexander Pannett, Egremont
A Good Double Standard on Israel - Chemi Shalev, West of Eden
Falklands Are British. Period - Alex Massie

RCW Morning Edition

Syria Offers Chance to Weaken Iran - Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
Why We Shouldn't Attack Syria (Yet) - Robert Pape, New York Times
Outside Forces Must Finish Assad - Daniel Byman, Foreign Policy
Arab Spring or Islamist Winter? - Michael J. Totten, World Affairs Journal
Anarchy in the Midst of Egypt's Revolution - Patrick Martin, Globe and Mail
A Disaster in Afghanistan - Frederick & Kimberly Kagan, Weekly Standard
China Gets a Taste of Post-Dalai Lama Era - Martina & Rhoads, Reuters
Expect China to Shape Next Bretton Woods Pact - Philip Coggan, Bloomberg
Russia Defending Interests in Mideast - Marwan Kabalan, Gulf News
Israel's Iran Threats All Hype? - Flynt & Hillary Mann Leverett, Race 4 Iran
Israel's New Allies - Benny Morris, The National Interest
Like Reagan, Harper Is 'Starving the Beast' - Stephen Maher, Calgary H'ld
Time for India to Save Africa - Prem Shankar Jha, The Hindu
How to Solve Falklands Problem? Sell Them - Phil Hensher, Independent
Why Is Ireland Up in Arms Over a Soft Treaty? - Gavin Barrett, Irish Times
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Editorials

Soccer Riot Underscores Tension With Egypt's Military - Toronto Star
Generational Warfare in Japan - The Economist
The UN's New, Big, Scary Report - Washington Times
Netanyahu Won Likud Battle, But May Lose the War - Haaretz

Research & Analysis

Rescuing Slums in Latin America - Brookings Institution
Putin's Corrupt Elite Fear - Jamestown Foundation
Unraveling the Euro Crisis - Peterson Institute for Int'l Economics
How to Handle an Iran-Induced Oil Crisis - Council on Foreign Relations

Real Clear World Thursday

Morning Update
Mr. Romney, It's a Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Drones Are Not Enough - Reuel Marc Gerecht, Weekly Standard
Trials of China: A Reluctant Superpower - David Pilling, Financial Times
Does Cameron Know What He's Doing? - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
The Collapse of the Putin Regime - Andrei Piontkovsky, Moscow Times
The Hard Way Out of Afghanistan - Luke Mogelson, New York Times
Israel's Profound Choice on Iran - Chuck Freilich, Los Angeles Times
Mr. President, Our Wars Are Not Over - Lawrence Kaplan, The New Republic
Why Russia Won't Back Down on Syria - Maksim Yusin, Kommersant
Time to End North Korea's Genocide - Robert Park, The Diplomat
Is Burma Turning on China? - John Lee, The National Interest
Victory Against al-Shabaab Gets Ugly - Bruton & Pham, Foreign Affairs
Can Italy Change? - Tim Parks, New York Review of Books
Scottish Independence? Not So Much - Michael Kelly, The Scotsman
Nationalism Returns to Serbia - Slavenka Drakulic, Eurozine

Afternoon Update
From Russia, for Bashar's Eyes Only - Michael Young, Daily Star
Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Why China Isn't Freaking Out - Michael Mazza & Daniel Vajdic, The Diplomat
Egypt's Soccer Mobs Threaten the Revolt - James Dorsey, Foreign Policy
The Mood in Britain Is to Muddle Along - Martin Kettle, The Guardian
Afghanistan: Noble Project Turned Noble Failure - Jonathan Kay, Natl Post
What U.S. Could Learn from Italy's Mario Monti - Nathan Gardels, CSM
Australia Must Beef Up Northern Naval Presence - Scott Barnes, SMH
Is Canada Really Helping World's Poor? - Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen
Can Science End War? - John Horgan, The Atlantic

Real Clear World Wednesday

Morning Update
The Truth: Of Course America Is in Decline - Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times
Europe Is Stuck on Life Support - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Russia and China Provide Cover for Assad - Bessma Momani, Toronto Star
Change Is Coming to Syria - Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
Blaming China Is No Solution for U.S. - John Copper, The National Interest
How Obama Became Vulnerable on Iran - Trita Parsi, Salon
Oman: America's Quiet Go-Between on Iran - Judith Miller, Fox News
Taliban 'Poised to Retake Afghanistan' - Taylor & Ferris-Rotman, G&M
Obama Policy Increases Risk in Korea - Michael Mazza, The American
Cameron Battles for Britain's Center - Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph
Euro Treaty Would Bind Future Irish Gov'ts - Arthur Beesley, Irish Times
Shafia Killings Expose Multiculturalism Sham - David Warren, Ottawa Cit
Blame NATO for the Mess in Libya - Ramzy Baroud, Gulf News
Why Wars U.S. Wages Often Go Wrong - Jim Powell, Forbes
How ExxonMobil Won the Iraq War - Ben Van Heuvelen, Foreign Policy

Afternoon Update
The Politics of Dignity - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Maliki Dilemma - Kenneth Pollack, The National Interest
Wishful Thinking About Taliban Talks - Michael Boyle, The Guardian
The 'Russification' of Italy - Stefano Casertano, The European
Europe Teams With China in Space Race - Christian Schwagerl, Der Spiegel
Why America Needs Amphibious Skills - J. Randy Forbes, The Diplomat
The World's Real Oil Crisis - Thomas Homer-Dixon, Globe and Mail
Canada's Conservatives Change Tune on China - John Ivison, National Post
Return of the Brain-Drain Panic - Jagdish Bhagwati, The American Interest
Taiwan's Democracy Is No Model - Cain Nunns, Global Post

Real Clear World Tuesday

Morning Update
Get Used to It: Syria Intervention Is Coming - Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon
Syria's Brutal Shadow War for Hearts & Minds - Ayman Mohyeldin, Time
Obama's Special Forces Fascination - Richard Weitz, The Diplomat
Cameron Shouldn't Lecture Germany - Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Euro Debt Crisis Now Belongs to Germany - George Friedman, Stratfor
China Courts the Middle East - Dilip Hiro, Yale Global
Call Honor Crimes What They Are - Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
America's Newest Export: Long, Expensive Elections - Tim Stanley, TNR
Little Difference Between Sarkozy and Hollande - Nicolas Lecaussin, WSJ
Russia Muscles Up - Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia
Winter Descends on Putin's KGB State - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Drones for Human Rights - Sniderman & Hanis, New York Times
The U.S.'s Cowardly Drone War - George Monbiot, The Guardian
Now Not the Time to Retreat from Europe - Chad Manske, Global Post
Will Taiwan's Democracy Impact China? - Jens Kastner, Asia Times

Afternoon Update
Hamas Hasn't Been Hurt by Syria's Fall - Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Saudi Arabia's Role in Syria - Roula Khalaf, Financial Times
Europe's 'Suffering Olympics': Hitler vs. Stalin - Roger Cohen, NY Times
The Factions Behind North Korea's Facade - Aidan Foster-Carter, Asia Times
The New Turkey: 'Eurasia's China' - Cagaptay, Arifagaoglu & Menekse, CNN
Uneasy U.S. Cooperation on Cuban Oil - Tim Padgett, Time
Repeating Old Afghan Mistakes - Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate
Time for Israel to Separate Church, State - Uri Misgav, Haaretz
George W. Bush, Disliked But Appreciated - Margaret Weiss, Daily Star
New Green Revolution Will Feed the World - Tom Chivers, Daily Telegraph