July 9, 2012 Archives

Week of July 9, 2012 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, July 9

Timbuktu's Tomb Raiders

Benjamin Soares, New York Times

NIMBY with Chinese Characteristics

Gordon Chang, Forbes

Oil Sanctions Not Enough Against Iran

Michael Singh, Washington Post

Eurozone Crisis Will Last 20 Years

Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times

NATO Tying Turkey's Hands on Syria

Hassan Hassan, The National

Asian Values Offer No Easy Fix for Europe

Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Merkel Battles Court over Europe's Future

Hipp & Pfister, Der Spiegel

Stop Bashing Britain's Bankers

Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph

Europe's Banks Leave Europeans with the Bill

Valentina Pop, EUobserver

Don't Blame (Just) Obama for Pakistan

Arthur Herman, New York Post

The Jihadi Foot Soldiers of Pakistan

Vikram Sood, Rediff

Real Power Behind Tehran's Tirades

Rodger Shanahan, The Australian

Iran Terror Group Pays Big to Erase History

Elizabeth Flock, U.S. News

Message to Iraq: Pull Back from the Brink

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

Creeping Decay of Canadian Democracy

Michael Den Tandt, EDM Journal

Tuesday, July 10

U.S. Must Pick Hamid Karzai's Successor

Michael O'Hanlon, Wash Post

Libya Answers Its Critics

Shashank Joshi, Daily Telegraph

U.S. Antagonist in Iraq Takes Political Gamble

Tim Arango, NY Times

Is Boris Johnson a Joker or Britain's Next PM?

Howard Jacobson, TNR

Only an Arms Embargo Can Save Syria

Jonathan Steele, The Guardian

Will Mexico Declare Peace in the War On Drugs?

Doug Bandow, Forbes

Old-style Politics Returns to Mexico

Laura Macdonald, Ottawa Citizen

Crisis Won't Diminish European Foreign Policy

Catherine Ashton, ECFR

One Year Later, South Sudan Is a Disaster

Alan Boswell, Foreign Policy

Self-inflicted Wounds Leave India Reeling

Jon Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

A Disaster Made in Japan

William Pesek, Bloomberg

Paraguay's Impeached Democracy

Setrini & Arce, Project Syndicate

The Making of an Indian Terrorist

Praveen Swami, The Hindu

Attacking Israel Online

Ben Cohen, Commentary Magazine

What the Eurozone Can Learn from South Korea

Lucy Williamson, BBC

Wednesday, July 11

Moscow's Marines Head for Syria

Mark Katz, Foreign Policy

Is Corruption the Cost of Saving Afghanistan?

Roland Paris, Globe & Mail

Should the World Fear China?

Frank Ching, China Post

Egypt's Real Ruler

Daniel Pipes & Cynthia Farahat, National Review

Egypt's Overhyped Parliament Showdown

Ashraf Khalil, The Daily Beast

Syria's Many 'Liberators'

Charles Glass, The National

The Ugly Truth About Algeria

John Schindler, The National Interest

Greek Far Right Hangs a Target on Immigrants

Liz Alderman, NY Times

Europe Needs a Multiethnic Miracle

Yascha Mounk, Slate

Hungary's Backslide Hurts Europe

James Kirchick, Foreign Affairs

Will Iranians Rally Around the flag?

Cameron Brown, Jerusalem Post

Vladimir Putin's Hurricane Katrina

Vladimir Frolov, Moscow Times

Scotland's Existential Threat to Britain

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, TNR

Time for Cameron to Put Clegg in His Place

Max Hastings, Daily Mail

To Make U.S. Great Again, Americans Must Travel

Elliot Gerson, Atlantic

Thursday, July 12

Where's Obama's Mideast Strategy?

Michael Young, Daily Star

Can Diplomacy Succeed with Iran, Syria?

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Hard Landing? China's Still Going Strong

Steven Rattner, New York Times

How Syria Became a Proxy War

Michael Ignatieff, NY Review of Books

Why Israel Won't Bomb Iran

Dan Raviv & Yossi Melman, Tablet Magazine

Russia's 'Great Game' in Central Asia

Richard Weitz, The Diplomat

Australia's Resource Lesson for the U.S.

Edward Glaeser, Bloomberg

It's Time for Israel to Rule the West Bank

Tzipi Hotovely, Jerusalem Post

How Much Pain Can Spain Endure?

Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

Mexicans Vote for Peace, Plan for War

Tom Hayden, The Nation

Cameron's Position Getting Weaker

Steve Richards, The Independent

Life in a Rapidly Changing World

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

Turkey-Iran Alliance That Wasn't

F. Stephen Larrabee, Foreign Affairs

Islamists Nurture Fascism in Egypt

Akram Ismail, Al Masry Al Youm

The Clashing Communities of Syria

Charles Glass, World Affairs Journal

Friday, July 13

The West Isn't Ready for the Rise of China

Kevin Rudd, New Statesman

Arab Spring and Islamist Ascendancy

Charles Krauthammer, Wash. Post

America's Egypt Problem

Aaron David Miller, Los Angeles Times

As Egypt Feuds, Economy Heads Toward Cliff

Blair & Werr, Reuters

Al-Qaeda Tightens Its Grip on Africa

Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

From Bad to Worse in Afghanistan

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Romney's World Tour Should Begin in Mexico

Andres Oppenheimer, MH

Will Syria's Conflict Spill into War-Weary Iraq?

Vivienne Walt, Time

Putin's Push to Modernize Russia's Army

Benjamin Quenelle, Les Echos

Obama's Scramble for 'New Spice Route' in Africa

Nick Turse, Salon

U.S., China Needn't Fight over Africa

David Shinn, China-U.S. Focus

Hollande's 'Justice' Is Risky for France

Neil Rogachevsky, National Interest

Aging Britain Needs More Immigration

Alex Massie, The Spectator

The Irrational Hatred of Stephen Harper

Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

Tilting at the UN Windmill

Jonah Goldberg, National Review

Saturday, July 14

The Islamist Generation

Mark Steyn, National Review

Echo of an Impending War

Sergei Karaganov, Russia in Global Affairs

What the U.S. Should Do in Syria

Dunne, Kramer & Taft, Washington Post

China, Japan, Taiwan Edge Toward Conflict

J. Michael Cole, The Diplomat

China's Big Challenge

Jonathan Fenby, The Guardian

When Israel Rules the West Bank

Hirsh Goodman, Jerusalem Post

Seeing Britain Through a Dark Time

Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

The Sources of Iranian Conduct

Sohrab Ahmari, The American Interest

U.S. Declinists Are No Doomsayers

Fawaz Turki, Gulf News

A Moment of Rebirth and Reason in Egypt

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

China's New Aircraft Carrier a Power Boost

Carl Schuster, Asia Times

Has the Eurozone Run Out of Answers?

Simon Tilford, CER

Will Mexico's New President Deliver?

Allison Jackson, The Financialist

Is Afghanistan Really a U.S. Ally?

Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

Russia's Endgame in Syria

Ariel Cohen, The National Interest

Sunday, July 15

The Moral Case for Drones

Scott Shane, New York Times

How Should Free World Treat China, Russia?

Michael Ignatieff, Reuters

Britain's Long Road Back to Prosperity

Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

America's Neurotic Relationship with Pakistan

David Ignatius, Wash Post

Israel Should Be Wary of Bibi's West Bank Panel

Trudy Rubin, Inquirer

Why France & America Don't Often Translate

Robert Zaretsky, LA Times

What Will Morsi Do About Syria?

Cumali Onal, Sunday's Zaman

The Olympic 'Ideal' Isn't So Ideal After All

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

Does Cameron Want to Save the Coalition?

Andrew Rawnsley, Observer

Democratic Deficit in Latin America

Myles Frechette, Miami Herald

New Alliance Raises U.S.-Afghan Stakes

Arthur Cyr, China Post

BRIC's (Not So) Spectacular Rise

Conrad Black, National Post

Saudi Arabia Tilts Toward India

Harsh Pant, The National

ASEAN Must Stand Up to China

Randy David, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Stephen Harper's Plugged Pipeline Policy

Paul Wells, Maclean's