February 9, 2015 Archives

Week of February 9, 2015 Archives

RealClearWorld Evening Edition

Monday, February 9

Obama's Strategy Lacks Focus

Jacob Parakilas, Chatham House

Here's Why Arming Kiev Is Such a Bad Idea

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Obama's Growing Isolation on Iran

WR Mead, American Interest

Britain Remains a Leader in EU Foreign Policy

Susi Dennison, ECFR

How to Avoid a U.S.-China Nuclear War

James Jay Carafano, TNI

Shared Threats Should Galvanize West

J. Dempsey, Carnegie

Obama Gives ISIS a Propaganda Boost

Marc Thiessen, Washington Post

Israel's Left Has no Answers

Gidon Ben-Zvi, RealClearWorld

Tuesday, February 10

The World War Within Islam

James Traub, Foreign Policy

Stop Gushing over King Abdullah

Kevin Sullivan, The Week

How to Win Covert Wars

Richard Russell, The National Interest

No Proxy War Against Russia

Michael Totten, World Affairs Journal

How Making Nice with Tehran Boosts ISIS

Ahmad El Assaad, NY Post

Egypt's Jon Stewart Comes to America

Dean Obeidallah, Daily Beast

The Battle for Libya's Oil

Frederic Wehrey, The Atlantic

The Terrors of Life Under Islamism

Ethan Gates, The New Republic

Is the Modi Honeymoon Over?

Dhiraj Nayyar, Bloomberg

Wednesday, February 11

What Comes Next if the West Arms Ukraine?

M. Galeotti, Moscow Times

Arming Ukraine Would Bring War Out Into the Open

James Jeffrey, FP

Can Angela Merkel Lead the West?

Jochen Bittner, New York Times

'Grexodus' Might Be More Accurate Than 'Grexit'

D. Lachman, AEIdeas

40 Years After Thatcher, Has British Politics Moved On?

Telegraph

Obama, Assad Teaming Up to Take On ISIS

Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

How Many ISIS Fighters Are There?

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, WOTR

The State of Iran, 36 Years After the Revolution

Mousavian, Al-Monitor

Brazil Can Thank Its President for Its Current Crisis

Bloomberg View

Xi Jinping's War on China

Elizabeth Economy, National Interest

Thursday, February 12

Five Reasons Arming Ukraine Won't Work

Paul Saunders, TNI

A New & Unimproved Ceasefire in Ukraine

Adam Chandler, Atlantic

Vladimir Putin's Goal Is To Destroy EU and NATO

The Economist

Alexis Tsipras Takes Stage as Greece's Hamlet

Fabio Fiallo, RCW

The Narco-State of Afghanistan

Najibullah Gulabzoi, The Diplomat

Construction on Huge Nicaragua Canal Begins

Pablo Fonseca, SciAm

The Baby that Divided a Nation

Nick Thorpe, BBC News

Sacrebleu! France May Allow Shopping on Sunday

Rick Noack, WP