February 6, 2012 Archives

Week of February 6, 2012 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, February 6

Syria Is the New Geopolitical Fault Line

Randa Slim, CNN

Lies About Afghanistan

Daniel Davis, Armed Forces Journal

Israel and Iran on Eve of Destruction

Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

Russia May Get its Way on Iran, Too

Tony Karon, Time

Time for Another Marshall Plan for Europe

James Hoge, The World Today

Russia vs. the Arab Spring

Dmitri Trenin, Foreign Affairs

U.S. Comes Up Short in Afghanistan

Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

Decline of the West Can Be Stopped

Shlomo Ben-Ami, European Voice

The Lesson of the Arab Spring

Alwaleed bin Talal, Wall Street Journal

Opposition Being Silenced in Turkey

Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, Washington Post

Not Many 'Moderates' in Egypt

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

Should Germany Become a BRIC?

Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times

U.S. Needs Marines in Asia

Michael Green, JoongAng Daily

Foreign Forces Must Turn the Tide in Syria

Attar & Moloney, The National

Can Canadian Brand Cope With Asia?

Khanh Vu Duc, Asia Sentinel

Tuesday, February 7

Ice Under Putin Begins to Crack

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

The Consequences of Ousting Putin

Raymond Sontag, American Interest

Time to Make a Deal With Assad

Nicholas Noe, New York Times

U.S. Reasonableness on Iran Run Amok

Richard Cohen, Washington Post

The U.S. Cannot Defeat the Taliban

George Friedman, Stratfor

China Needs to Change Mideast Foreign Policy

James Dorsey, Bloomberg

Why Does U.S. Pay to Protect Prosperous Allies?

Christopher Preble, Cato

Euro Politicians Prolong Greek Tragedy

Dalibor Rohac, National Review

Why It Won't Be a Tragedy if Greece Defaults

Mark Sheetz, Foreign Policy

Coming Soon: Deflation and Depreciation in China

Gordon Chang, Forbes

'Quiet Diplomacy' Doesn't Work With China

J. Michael Cole, Ottawa Cit'zn

Taiwan's Imperfect Democracy

Baum & van der Wees, The Diplomat

Candidacy Tests Mexico's Culture of Machismo

Olga Rodriguez, AP

Kuwait's Troubling Elections

Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon

India Should Train Afghan Officers

Deepak Kapoor, Times of India

Wednesday, February 8

A Post-American World? Not Quite

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

China's Achilles' Heel: Natural Resources

Minxin Pei, The Diplomat

China's Tangled Web in Year of Dragon

Lianchao Han, RealClearWorld

Russia's Potemkin Democracy

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post

A Most Cynical Palestinian 'Union'

Amir Taheri, New York Post

Israel and Iran: Countdown to War

Benny Morris, The National Interest

How We Learned Not to Fear China's Bomb

Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

To Weaken Iran, Start With Syria

Efraim Halevy, New York Times

Syria Intervention Will Escalate Killings

Seumas Milne, The Guardian

A New UN, But for Good Guys

Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times

Britain Ready to Humiliate Argentina's Bully

Nile Gardiner, Telegraph

UK Must Hand the Falklands Back to Argentina

Peter Slowe, Politics.co.uk

Germany's New Role in Europe

Daniela Schwarzer, World Politics Review

Sick Man of Canada Must Take Its Medicine

Jeffrey Simpson, Globe & Mail

The Re-Branding of Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier

Susana Ferreira, Time

Thursday, February 9

Europe's German Future

Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard

Merkel Needs All the Help She Can Get

Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian

U.S. Well Suited for Persian Gulf Power Play

Ray Takeyh, New York Times

What's Russia Up to in Syria?

Michael Young, Daily Star

Defense Cuts Sap Obama's Asia Pivot

Michael Auslin, Wall Street Journal

India and U.S. on a Collision Course?

David Karl, The Diplomat

Overstating China's Village Protests

David Pilling, Financial Times

Israel Weighs War Against Iran and Hezbollah

Bruce Riedel, Daily Beast

U.S. Can't Force Afghan Reconciliation

Peter Tomsen, Los Angeles Times

West Turns its Back on the Free Market

Nicole Gelinas, City Journal

A Shakeup in Mexico

Shannon O'Neil, Foreign Affairs

So Much for the Shia Crescent

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, NOW Lebanon

Israel's Old Peace Is Dead

Ari Shavit, Haaretz

All Is Not Well in the Arab Spring

David Schenker, World Affairs Journal

Can Turkey Broker Peace in Syria?

Leon Hadar, The National Interest

Friday, February 10

Euro Crisis Averted? Don't Believe It

Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

We're All State Capitalists Now

Niall Ferguson, Foreign Policy

China's Global Soft Power Push

Frank Ching, Yale Global

Syria Intervention Is Morally Just - and Impractical

James Traub, TNR

A Familiar Cold War in the Middle East

Patrick Seale, Gulf News

Putin Chasing Imaginary American Ghosts

Michael Bohm, Moscow Times

Egypt's Multiple Revolutions Rage On

Roger Owen, Bloomberg

How to Engage Tehran

Hossein Mousavian, Foreign Affairs

Ordinary Iranians Bear Brunt of Sanctions

Michael Theodoulou, National

Is China Ripe for a Revolution?

Stephen Platt, New York Times

North Korea's Tough Strategic Decisions

Steven Kim, East Asia Forum

Where Is Maldives Headed?

Prakash Katoch, Outlook India

West Can't Ignore Global Persecution of Christians

Conrad Black, NRO

Energy Binds China and Canada

Wenran Jiang, Financial Post

Sarkozy's Pick-n-Mix Referendums

Richard Waghorne, Daily Mail

Saturday, February 11

Let's Not Make Things Worse in Syria

Daniel Byman, Washington Post

Get Over Iraq and Intervene in Syria

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian

U.S. Can Live With an Afghan Loss

James Traub, Foreign Policy

The World Is Running Out of Workers

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

Just Say No to an Iran Bargain

James Kirchick, Haaretz

Global Economy in a Calm Before Storm

Martin Taylor, Financial Times

America's Hypocritical UN Outrage

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

Canada Has Become Unrecognizable

George Jonas, National Post

It's Hormuz Mania

Michael Klare, Le Monde Diplomatique

Silver Lining in an Iran-Israel War

Leon Hadar, Singapore Business Times

Afghanistan: Asia's Congo

Sanjeev Miglani, Pakistan Now or Never

Al-Qaeda Grows in Sinai

Bruce Riedel, The National Interest

Resetting the U.S.-Russian Reset

Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

Inside Myanmar's Startling, Peaceful Transformation

The Economist

In Cyber Era, Militaries Scramble for New Skills

Peter Apps, Reuters

Sunday, February 12

Why the World Needs America

Robert Kagan, Wall Street Journal

Americans Expect China to Be Leading World Power

Jeffrey Jones, Gallup

Egypt's Relationship With U.S. Is Ending

Peter Goodspeed, National Post

Syrian Rebels Plot Their Next Moves

Rania Abouzeid, Time

Is Assad Preparing an Alawite Mini-State?

Michael Young, NOW Lebanon

Democracy Ending in Land Where It Began

Chris Booker, The Telegraph

Greek Default Would Bring Euro Chaos

Heather Stewart, The Observer

Moscow Cuts Off Gas While Europe Freezes

Amanda Paul, Sunday's Zaman

Afghan Risks Shift from Soldiers to Contractors

Rod Nordland, NY Times

China's Police Chief Mystery

David Cohen, The Diplomat

Pressuring Russia & China Is Key to Ousting Assad

Suzanne Nossel, TNR

Al-Qaeda's Unsurprising Merger

Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard

Will Chavez's Presidential Challenger Pose Threat?

Chris Toothaker, AP

Cold War Legacy Fades in Cuba

Arthur Cyr, China Post

Stephen Harper: The Quiet Politician

David Warren, Ottawa Citizen