Week of October 17, 2016 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, October 17
The Battle for Mosul Begins
Rod Nordland, New York Times
What Can the Next President Do About Russia?
Robert Kaplan, Wall Street Journal
Russia Is Building Fallout Shelters
Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast
The 2016 Epidemic of Afghan War Amnesia
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Europe's Eight Great Threats
George Weigel, National Review
Welcome to Agadez, Smuggling Capital of Africa
Lucas Destrijker, Politico EU
Posting on Facebook Is Now a Crime in Ethiopia
Lily Kuo, Quartz
The Single Market That Matters to Scotland Is the UK
Brian Monteith, The Scotsman
As Trump Bashed China, He Sought Deals With Its Govt
Ben Dooley, AFP
China Courts Fiery Philippines Leader Amid U.S. Rift
Phillips & Holmes, Guardian
Now Is the Time to Hit Pakistan With Sanctions
Shawn Snow, The Diplomat
For Post-Brexit Jews, German Citizenship No Longer Verboten
Danica Kirka, AP
Realists Should Care About Morality
Ted Galen Carpenter, The National Interest
Why the Maldives Walked Out of the Commonwealth
Mohamed Asim, Independent
Strongman's Shadow Looms Over Battle for Libyan City
Jason Pack, Al-Monitor
Why Carthage Failed and Rome Succeeded
J.E. Lendon, Weekly Standard
Tuesday, October 18
America's Assad Quandary
Robert Kaplan, National Interest
The Roots of Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Will "Winning" in Mosul Be "Losing"?
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
The Terrible Battle For Mosul
Joshua Hammer, New York Review of Books
Only Fools Rush In to Raqqa?
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
The Dawn of the New Iranian Empire
Michael Rubin, Commentary
After Mosul, Will ISIS Go Underground?
Patrick Ryan & Patrick Johnson, WOTR
In Private, Clinton Split With Obama on Iran
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Germany Struggles to Find United Stance on Russia
Der Spiegel
Russia and Iran Are Partners of Convenience
Yuri Teper & Dima Course, Russia File
Hollywood, Chinese-Style
Richard Berman, Washington Times
The Race to China’s 19th Party Congress
Jonathan Brookfield, The Diplomat
Russia Has Weaponized the American Press
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
China Is Not Long-Term Alliance Material for Israel
Jonathan Schanzer, Jer. Post
Obama's Bet on Putin Has Collapsed
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Wednesday, October 19
Without Western Troops, We Cannot Be Sure of Beating ISIS
Con Coughlin, T'graph
Is This the End of ISIS?
Raffaello Pantucci, New Statesman
Say Hello to Taiwan
Gordon Chang, National Interest
The World Is Seriously Worried About America's Election
David Ignatius, Wash. Post
As Bouteflika Era Ends, a Crisis of Continuity for Algeria?
Vish Sakthivel, WP Review
UNESCO vs. Israel
Barbara Kay, National Post
UNESCO's Failed History Test
Jordana McMillan, Jerusalem Post
Japan and India Must Partner in Myanmar
Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
It's Worth Canada's Time to Talk to Russia
Michael Byers, Globe and Mail
Poland Turns to Norwegian Gas to Trump Russia
Anca Gurzu, Politico EU
Wallonia Is Playing With Fire
Sander Loones, EU Observer
Mobsters and Jihadis Trade Art for Arms
Barbie Latza Nadeau, Daily Beast
Why Tax Cuts Worked for Russia, But Not Kansas
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
From Russia (But Nowhere Else) With Love
Ivan Krastev, New York Times
Truly Winning the Battle of Mosul
Daniel Byman, Brookings Institution
Thursday, October 20
America's Course Correction
D. Simes, P. Chougule & P. Saunders, National Interest
In Mosul, the End Is the Beginning
Reva Goujon, Stratfor
Stop This Stupid Saber-Rattling Against Russia
Rod Liddle, Spectator
Why the Philippines’ Pivot From U.S. to China Is Unusual
Xuan Loc Doan, Asia Times
Trump Sows Confusion Over NATO
Fedja Buric, Balkan Insight
The Trump Trade Doctrine: A Path to Growth and Balance
Ross & Navarro, RCPolicy
The Decline of the West and How to Stop It
Javier Solana & Strobe Talbott, NY Times
Making Missile Defense Work for Japan
Ben Rimland, The Diplomat
Brexit's Backers Need to Keep Fighting
Allister Heath, Telegraph
Libyans Have No Use For Clinton's "Smart Power"
Anthony Fisher, Reason
No Way to Negotiate With Narcoterrorists
Alvaro Uribe Velez, Wall Street Journal
Has U.S. Backed an Incompetent Commander in Iraq?
R. Mohammed, Fiscal Times
"Islamic State" Turning Into a Guerrilla Army, Top General Warns
N. Yousseff, DB
Don’t Stop the Music in India and Pakistan
Salman Ahmad, Indian Express
How the EU Threw Away Its Trade Powers
Oliver, Von Der Burchard & Marks, Politico EU
Friday, October 21
Duterte's Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the U.S.
Max Boot, Foreign Policy
The Only Way to Really Win Mosul
Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Are Turkey and Iraq Headed for War in Mosul?
Zalmay Khalilzad, National Interest
The Arc of History Bends Toward Bombing Assad
Nick Danforth, War on the Rocks
The Kurds’ Proxy Trap
Ofra Bengio, The American Interest
The Druze and Assad: Strategic Bedfellows
Fabrice Balanche, Washington Institute
Make Alberta Great Again?
Colby Cosh, National Post
Trump Sides With Putin Over U.S. Intelligence
Michael Crowley, Politico
China: The Virtues of the Awful Convulsion
Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
The Public Is Already Turning Against Brexit
Polly Toynbee, Guardian
How ISIS Is Spinning the Mosul Battle
Charlie Winter, The Atlantic
Georgia's Long-Shot Democracy
Michael Cecire, Foreign Affairs
Did I Kill Anyone in Iraq? The Truth Is, I’ll Never Know.
Seth Harp, Narratively
Why Is the U.S. Green Party So Irrelevant?
Per Urlaub, The Conversation
Inside The Battle To Take Back Mosul From ISIS
Mike Giglio, BuzzFeed
Saturday, October 22
How Putin Has Helped Assad Tear Syria Apart
Shiraz Maher, New Statesman
What Would Victory in Mosul Look Like?
Saad Aldouri & Renad Mansour, Chatham House
Duterte Flirts With Disaster
Max Boot, Commentary
The Philippines Just Blew Up Obama's Asia Pivot
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
U.S. Seeks to Scupper Proposed Ban on Nuclear Arms
Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy
Putin's Dangerous Baltic Games
Paul Wood, Spectator
Avoiding Groupthink on China
Greg Austin, The Diplomat
Ignoring Afghanistan
Yochi Dreazen, Vox
Save Your Breath, Canada: America Knows It's Great
Andrew Cohen, Globe and Mail
Trump Is Making Russia More Dangerous Than Ever
Charles Moore, Telegraph
The Real Thousand-Year Reich
Aram Bakshian Jr., National Interest
Managing Compromise in the Middle East
Nabil Fahmy, Project Syndicate
Free Trade Friends Need to Fight
Dalibor Rohac, CapX
Why Indonesia's Stability Is Stagnation
Joe Emont, World Politics Review
Sunday, October 23
The Soviet Union Never Really Went Away
Arkady Ostrovsky, The Economist
Russia and U.S. on Collision Course Beyond Syria
Ariel Cohen, RealClearWorld
We Condemned Gadhafi for Terrorism -- Why Not Putin?
Diego Arria, NY Daily News
West Africa Is Being Swallowed By the Sea
Matteo Fagotto, Foreign Policy
War in Yemen Threatens to Blow Up Global Trade
Amal Nasser, Al-Monitor
We Live in Aleppo. Here’s How We Survive.
Omair Shaaban, Washington Post
The Siege Starts Without Warning
Miljenko Jergovic, New York Times
Should the United States Share Intelligence With Cuba?
Franco Ordonez, McClatchy
Xi Jinping’s Trump Moment
Andrew Browne, Wall Street Journal
Why Chinese Christians Are Worried
Mimi Lau, South China Morning Post
A National Security Blind Spot: Gender
Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Weingarten, PS
Are White People Still Welcome in South Africa?
Steven Boykey Sidley, Daily Maverick
Why Mexico Is Giving Out Half a Million Rape Whistles
Kate Linthicum, LA Times
Acapulco's Bloody Taxi War
Creede Newton, The Daily Beast
Stop Iran By Stopping North Korea
Josh Gelernter, National Review
Dancing With Nomads: Going Off-Grid in Iran
Anthony Sattin, Conde Naste Traveller
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