Week of August 15, 2016 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, August 15
China's Rise Is Visibly Fracturing Western Politics
Gideon Rachman
,
Guardian
America Is Smashing the Old Oil Order
Anthony Fensom
,
National Interest
Britain Is Europe's Reverse Domino
Pierpaolo Barbieri
,
Wall Street Journal
Why is Project Fear Willing Britain to Fail?
Tim Stanley
,
Telegraph
Britain’s Nuclear Future in Peril
Gregory Brew
,
Oil Price
In the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Even Calm Is Deadly
Emily Harris
,
NPR
France's Dilemma: Who Do You Hate the Least?
Noah Barkin
,
Reuters
The Death of Democracy in Ortega’s Nicaragua
Robert Callahan
,
Miami Herald
India Closes In on a National Market
Richard Rossow
,
cogitASIA
Is South Korea Still Interested in Unification?
Emma Campbell
,
East Asia Forum
Putin Has No Strategy to Save Russia's Economy
Sergey Aleksashenko
,
Moscow Times
The Forgotten Figure of the Enlightment
Anthony Gottlieb
,
New Statesman
Iran Payment Wasn’t Ransom, But It Was Ransom
Michael Totten
,
World Affairs Journal
End the First-Use Policy for Nuclear Weapons
James Cartwright
&
Bruce Blair
,
NY Times
What Turkey's Coup Sounded Like
Denise Gill
,
New Republic
The Quiet Tajik Refugee Crisis
Yan Matusevich, The Diplomat
Tuesday, August 16
Reinventing the Levant
Jamal Daniel
, The
National Interest
Should Washington Worry About Gibraltar?
Luke Coffey
,
War on the Rocks
A Defense of Obama's Middle East Balancing Act
Aaron D. Miller
&
Robert Malley
,
FP
The Immigration System Britain Should Adopt
Red Jahncke
,
Bloomberg View
Australia's Famed Luck May Be Running Out
Gideon Rachman
,
Financial Times
Upset by Brexit, Some British Jews Look to Germany
Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura
, NY
T
On Foreign Policy, Does Trump Get It?
Alan Berger
,
Boston Globe
Trump Hits Obama and Clinton on National Security
Fred Barnes
,
Weekly Standard
British Olympics: A Success in Right-Wing Thinking
Jeremy Warner
,
Telegraph
Brexit Could Shut the Door to UK's Next Olympic Great
Allan Hennessy
,
Independent
The Meaning of an Olympic Snub
Brett Stephens
,
Wall Street Journal
America's Glass House on Doping
Samuel Chi
,
CNN
Is China Entering A Period Of Stagnation?
Paul Roderick Gregory
,
Forbes
The Mystery of Hieronymus Bosch
Ingrid Rowland
,
New York Review of Books
A Conspiracy Theory About Clintons Goes Viral In China
Beimeng Fu
,
BuzzFeed
Fascism Masked? A Different Kind of German Far Right
Christian Bohm
,
Worldcrunch
Wednesday, August 17
China's Broader Ambitions Are Revealed
Zhixing Zhang
&
Matthew Bey
,
Stratfor
Lessons on Foreign Policy From Ike and George Washington
Daniel Davis
,
TNI
Build the Wall? Not in San Diego–Tijuana
Andrew Selee
,
RealClearWorld
Europe Is Ditching Cash
Economist
Russia Teams Up With Iran to Bomb Syria
David Axe
,
Daily Beast
Good Riddance to Britain's Islamist Loudmouth
Douglas Murray
,
Spectator
Trump’s Blunt-Force Foreign Policy
Robin Wright
,
New Yorker
Trump's Conspiracy Theories Are Dangerous in the Mideast
Hanna
&
Benaim
,
NYT
Eton and the Making of a Modern Elite
Christopher de Bellaigue
,
1843
Goebbels’ 105-Year-Old Secretary: 'We Knew Nothing'
Kate Connolly
,
Guardian
Don't Let Russia Hack the Ballot
Karen Hobert Flynn
&
Pamela Smith
,
Reuters
What We Learned From the Rob Ford Crack Video
Robyn Urback
,
National Post
Building a Better Muslim Visa Policy
Daniel Pipes
,
Washington Times
Denmark's Nice, Yes, But Danes Live Better in the U.S.
Tyler Cowen
,
Bloomberg View
France and the Oppressive Burkini
Michael Curtis
,
The Commentator
Burkini Bans Continue a Long History of Male Control
Kathleen Parker
,
Wash. Post
Thursday, August 18
The Weapons That Could Guarantee U.S. Military Dominance
David Ignatius
,
WaPo
American Conservatism and Russia
George Friedman
,
Geopolitical Futures
Might America Be Pulled Into a War With China by Election Day?
H. Kazianis
,
Rare
Germany and the UK: Hints of a Role Reversal
Almut Moeller
,
RealClearWorld
How Bill Clinton Unhinged U.S. Foreign Policy
Robert Merry
,
National Interest
Avoiding the ‘Copycat Trap’ on Balochistan
Suhasini Haidar
,
The Hindu
The Dilemma of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
Muhammad Akbar Notezai
,
The Diplomat
The Drone Presidency
David Cole
,
New York Review of Books
Why Hezbollah Won't Open All-Out Front Against Israel
Ben Caspit
,
Al-Monitor
Comeback Time: The Rebirth of British Watchmaking
Daniel Thomas
,
BBC
Latin America Needs ‘Innovation Diplomacy’
Andres Oppenheimer
,
Miami Herald
How ISIS Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile
Harald Doornbos
&
Jenan Moussa
,
FP
How to Divide Iran and Russia
Eli Lake
,
Bloomberg View
Britain's Hopeless Tolerance Let Choudary's Hate Thrive
Allison Pearson
,
Telegraph
Ban Men, Not Burkinis
Seth Frantzman
,
Jerusalem Post
Friday, August 19
The Price of Powerlessness
Charles Krauthammer
,
Washington Post
Stuck in an Intractable Syria
Aaron David Miller
,
RealClearWorld
Clinton Could Easily Push for Open Conflict With Russia
Ted Galen Carpenter
,
TNI
Trump Advisers Waged Covert Influence Campaign in Ukraine
Horwitz
&
Day
,
AP
Finding Water in the Desert: Water Security in the Middle East
Fritz Lodge
, TCB
What Will History Say About Aleppo?
Jonathan Tobin
,
Commentary
Al-Qaeda's Future Threat
Matthew Kriner
,
RealClearDefense
The Obama Administration Thinks the World Is Doing Great
Zack Beauchamp
,
Vox
What Brazil Can Learn From Italy's 1990s Trauma
Kevin Lees
,
Suffragio
A Hungry China Has Emptied Its Seas
Adam Minter
,
Bloomberg View
China's Floating Population Fights Not to Sink
Simon Rabinovitch
,
1843
Putin’s Super Cynical ‘War on Terror’
Anna Nemtsova
,
Daily Beast
Fractured Lands: Arab Writers on Region in Crisis
Kashua
,
El Rashidi
&
Makiya
,
NYT
Manafort's Man in Kiev
Kenneth Vogel
,
Politico
Venezuela's Military Grows Stronger After Chavez
Rebecca Jarman
,
The Conversation
Saturday, August 20
Brexit Armageddon Simply Hasn’t Happened
Larry Elliott
,
Guardian
The Crimean Crisis and Russia’s Posture in the Black Sea
Michael Kofman
,
WOTR
FDR and Churchill at Newfoundland
Conrad Black
,
National Post
As the Saudis Kill, America Looks Away
Samuel Oakford
,
New York Times
Hillary Clinton's Right Wing Foreign Policy
Peter McKenna
,
Ottawa Citizen
Welcome to Britain, Land of the Anti-Elite Elites
Helen Lewis
,
New Statesman
Counting Africa’s Invisible Workers
Carl Manlan
,
Project Syndicate
The Man Who Infiltrated a Ghetto to Expose the Nazis
Andrew Nagorski
,
Daily Beast
Aleppo Is Worse Than Srebrenica — So Is Western Apathy
R. Herzinger
,
Worldcrunch
U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities in West Africa
John Campbell
,
Council on Foreign Relations
Ugly Americans Win Gold in Rio
Mac Margolis
,
Bloomberg View
Anjem Choudary and the Criminalization of Dissent
Simon Cottee
,
Foreign Policy
Theresa May's Bold Approach to Russia Is Right
Christopher Meyer
, Evening
Standard
Free from Brussels, Farming and Conservation Can Make Hay
C. Moore
,
Telegraph
Kremlin Smoke Signals
Economist
Sunday, August 21
The Syria "What If" That May Haunt Obama
W. Robert Pearson
,
RealClearWorld
Why the Ayatollah Thinks He Won
Jay Solomon
,
Wall Street Journal
Saudis Expect Little from Next U.S. Leader
Bruce Riedel
,
Al-Monitor
Trump's Secret? He’s Really a Russian Oligarch
Anne Applebaum
,
Washington Post
Even Putin Cannot Kill the Russian Revolution
Leon Aron
,
Foreign Policy
U.S. Searches for Plan B on Venezuela
Franco Ordonez
,
Miami Herald
After Brexit, Britain Eats Its Cake (But Wants It, Too)
Robert Fulford
,
National Post
Manafort Makes Russia the Bad Guy Again
Walter Russell Mead
,
American Interest
Bears & Bolsheviks: The U.S. Tradition of Fearing Russia
Meagan Day
,
Timeline
This One Immigrant Group Is Surprisingly Pro-Trump
Renuka Rayasam
,
Quartz
Yes, There Should Be an Ideological Test in Immigration
Andrew McCarthy
,
NRO
Why GDP?
Philipp Lepenies
,
Project Syndicate
Rio’s Olympian Lesson: Good for the Rich, Bad for the Poor
Juliana Barbassa
,
G&M
Turkish Food Is a Disaster
Sara Nasser
,
Roads & Kingdoms