Week of January 30, 2017 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, January 30
Trump's Immigration Order Is Bad Foreign Policy
FitzGerald
&
Martin
,
Conversation
Trump Refugee Order Balances Security, Compassion
James Carafano
,
Daily Signal
Malevolence Tempered By Incompetence
Benjamin Wittes
,
Lawfare
Can Donald Trump Defeat ISIS?
Charles Lister
,
RealClearWorld
ISIS Has Evolved Into Something More Dangerous
Hassan Hassan
,
The National
Why It Would Be Wrong to Undo the Cuba Opening
Eric Olson
,
RealClearWorld
Trump Has Reinvigorated the "Special Relationship"
John Bolton
,
Boston Globe
Dutch Politics Stops Minding Its Language
Naomi O'Leary
,
Politico EU
Russia Intends to Test Trump in the Middle East
Jed Babbin
,
Washington Times
Will Paris Pivot to Moscow?
Robert Zaretsky
,
RealClearWorld
Donald Trump Is Handing China the World
David Axe
,
The Daily Beast
The Shadow of Deng Xiaoping on Chinese Politics
Joseph Torigian
,
War on the Rocks
A Visa Ban on Iran Will Negatively Affect the U.S.
Hooman Majd
,
NBC News
India's Got a Reputation Problem
Mihir Sharma
,
Bloomberg View
SNP Wants a "Semi-Detached" Scotland. Could It Work?
Hamish Macdonell
,
Spec.
"Calexit" Would Be a Disaster for Californians
Conor Friedersdorf
,
LA Times
Tuesday, January 31
The Lonely Lament of the Globalists
Kevin Sullivan
,
RealClearWorld
Deadly Violence Arrives in Eastern Ukraine
Deutsche Welle
Stirring Up the Specter of New Balkan Wars
Dejan Anastasijevic
,
Balkan Insight
The Admin's Coming Battle Between Zealots and Pragmatists
Clint Watts
,
FPRI
In a Week, Trump Upends Decades of Perceptions of America
David Sanger
,
NYT
Russia, the Catalyst of Change
Maxim Trudolyubov
,
The Russia File
The UK Needs a Dump Trump Foreign Policy, and Now
Paul Mason
,
Guardian
Ripping Up Trump's Invitation Would Be Idiotic for Britain
Robert Hardman
,
Daily Mail
Meet Emmanuel Macron, France's Answer to Donald Trump
A. Whittam Smith
,
Ind.
A Mosque Shooting Quebeckers Must Never Forget
Konrad Yakabuski
,
Globe and Mail
In Turkey, U.S. Loss Is China's Gain
George Marshall Lerner
,
The Diplomat
The British Army Can't Find Enough Soldiers
Kevin Knodell
,
War Is Boring
More Californians Dreaming of Nationhood
Sharon Bernstein
,
Reuters
California Shouldn't Secede from the U.S.
John Fund
,
National Review
How to Build an Autocracy
David Frum
,
The Atlantic
That Whole Showdown With America Was Obama's Fault
Alexey Kovalev
,
Mos. Times
Trump's Ban Could Kneecap the ISIS War
Kimberly Dozier
,
Daily Beast
Wednesday, February 1
American Strength in the World Starts at Home
Joel Weickgenant
,
RealClearWorld
Trump, Refugees, and the Truth
James Jay Carafano
,
RealClearWorld
A Diplomat's Proper Channel of Dissent
Paul Wolfowitz
,
New York Times
Trump's Grand Strategic Train Wreck
Colin Kahl
&
Hal Brands
,
Foreign Policy
Why Vlad Needs Viktor
Lili Bayer
,
Politico EU
France's Fillon Looks Finished, Its Election Farcical
Iain Martin
,
Reaction
How to Turn the Russian Bear Into a Monster
Patrick Tucker
,
Defense One
Don't Ignore the Fighting in Ukraine
Noah Rothman
,
Commentary
Give Mattis a Break: Service, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
John Allen Williams
,
WOTR
Where Thucydides Meets Cyberspace
Ben Buchanan
,
Council on Foreign Relations
Harnessing the Politics of Disruption
Mark Leonard
,
Project Syndicate
What is India's Cold Start Military Doctrine?
Economist
European Leaders Are Now Describing Trump as a Threat
Uri Friedman
,
The Atlantic
America's Worst Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson
Stephen Knott
,
Nat'l Interest
Ed Miliband Is Hot Again
Gaby Hinsliff
,
Guardian
Kazakhstan Is Changing to Secure Continuity
Kamran Bokhari
,
Geopolitical Futures
Thursday, February 2
A Tectonic Shift in the German Election
Matthias Bartsch
et al.,
Der Spiegel
Poland Takes On Russia
Antonia Colibasanu
,
Geopolitical Futures
Why Is France So Corrupt?
Robert Zaretsky
,
Foreign Policy
Fillon's Fall Doesn't Mean Le Pen Wins
Pauline Bock
,
New Statesman
Will Ukraine Build a Wall to Keep Out the Russians?
Anna Nemtsova
,
Daily Beast
Ukraine's Donbas Drifts Into "Alternative Peace"
Oliver Carroll
,
Moscow Times
America the Unexceptional
Dan Drezner
,
Washington Post
Turnbull's Big Mistake: Not Supporting an Ally
Chris Kenny
,
The Australian
Questions Cloud U.S. Raid in Yemen
Eric Schmitt
&
David Sanger
,
New York Times
The Destruction of the Yezidis
Vicken Cheterian
,
Le Monde Diplomatique
Saudis Hopeful But Wary About Trump
Bruce Riedel
,
Al-Monitor
How Will Pakistan Fare With New U.S. President?
Rashmee Roshan Lall
,
National
Trudeau Lost Zeal For Electoral Reform After He Won Election
J. Geddes
,
Maclean's
Europe's Unenergetic Energy
Vladislav Inozemtsev
,
Intersection Project
The Mystery That Is Rex Tillerson
Zack Beauchamp
,
Vox
Libya's State Vacuum Sucks In Foreign Powers
Tony Barber
,
Financial Times
Actually, Germany Hates the Undervalued Euro
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloomberg View
What Trump Has in Common With the Last German Emperor
Doug Bandow
,
N'l Int.
Friday, February 3
The United States: Between Isolation and Empire
Rodger Baker
,
Stratfor
What Happens When All We Have Left Is the Pentagon?
William Hartung
,
TomDis.
We Must Reclaim Patriotism From Leftists -- and From Trump
Robert Kaplan
,
FP
This Is What Unilateralism Looks Like
Max Boot
,
Commentary
Captain Tillerson
Matt Gobush
,
Providence Mag
Stop the Pandering: There Are No "Losers" in Free Trade
John Tamny
, RC
Markets
The European Union Is Terrified of Donald Trump
Nigel Farage
,
Fox News
Brexit Is the Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated on Britain
Tess Finch-Lees
,
Independent
What Is Trump's "America First" Doctrine?
Emma Ashford
,
Cato Institute
Putin-Orban Axis Assails the EU
Peter Kreko
,
EU Observer
Fearful of Hacking, Dutch Will Hand-Count Ballots
Sewell Chan
,
New York Times
The Specter of Post-Atlanticist Europe
Judy Dempsey
,
Carnegie Europe
The Return of Cold War Liberalism
Matthew Cooper
,
Newsweek
Defining Genocide Down
Shia Altman
,
Times of Israel
How Powerful Is France's President?
Jonathan Masters
,
Council on Foreign Relations
Steve Bannon Now Gets to Help Decide War and Peace
Yochi Dreazen
,
Vox
Saturday, February 4
6 Eyecatching Fringe Parties in Dutch Election
Cynthia Kroet
,
Politico EU
The ABCs of Russian Military Power
Michael Kofman
,
National Interest
St. Petersburg: Russia's City of Rebels
Christian Neef
,
Der Spiegel
The Corbynite Ideology
Richard Carr
,
Progress
Trump Has Already Blown It
Stephen Walt
,
Foreign Policy
France Moves Into Full Election Mode
Heather Conley
&
Donatienne Ruy
,
CSIS
For Europe, There's a New Threat in Town: The U.S.
Steven Erlanger
,
New York Times
Bahrain Needs the F-16; The F-16 Needs Bahrain
James Durso
,
RealClearDefense
It's Europe's Turn to Fill the Global Power Vacuum
Alexander Stubb
,
Financial Times
U.S. to Australia: "Get Lost"
Roger Cohen
,
New York Times
First, the Collapse of the Global Order. Is the Next Goal War?
J. Freedland
,
Guardian
Suddenly Ukraine Is in Play
Patrick Smith
,
Fiscal Times
Don't Learn From Russians About the Holocaust
Izabella Tabarovsky
,
The Russia File
Sunday, February 5
This Is Canada's Moment to Seize
Conrad Black
,
National Post
Europeans Back Trump's German Grievances
Walter Russell Mead
,
American Interest
How Putin Tore Up Obama’s 2013 Syria Deal
Aron Lund
,
Century Foundation
Trump Isn't Repeating Obama's Middle East Mistakes
Jonathan Tobin
,
NRO
Bannon Is Right: War in South China Sea Is Possible
Sean O'Grady
,
Independent
Hong Kong in a Corner After China’s Raid on Xiao Jianhua
Ben Bland
,
Fin. Times
The Trump Way of Winning the War
Caroline Glick
,
Jerusalem Post
Israel Can't Avoid the Settlement Talk Anymore
Daniel Gordis
,
Bloomberg View
Yemen: First Battleground in Trump's Iran Confrontation
De Luce
&
McLeary
, FP
Pakistan’s Middle Class Soars as Stability Returns
Saeed Shah
,
Wall Street Journal
Georgia: Where Europe Begins, or Where It Ends?
Josh Kucera
,
Roads & Kingdoms
World's Largest Muslim Nation Isn't Sure About Trump
Vincent Bevins
,
Wash Post
Has Putin Poisoned Another Opponent?
Michael Weiss
,
The Daily Beast
The Most Powerful Woman in Iran
Saeid Jafari
,
Al-Monitor
No "Lone Wolves": How IS Guides Terror Plots From Afar
Rukmini Callimachi
,
NYT
20-Step Vetting Process Refugees Must Follow to Enter the U.S.
Business Insider
Martin McGuinness: "Butcher" Who Became Peacemaker
Kevin Cullen
, The
Globe