July 23, 2012 Archives

Week of July 23, 2012 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, July 23

Anglo-American Capitalism Is in Retreat

Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Syrian Rebels Plead for Better Weapons

Eli Lake, Daily Beast

Beware of 'Alawistan' in Syria

Benjamin Jensen, Financial Times

In Europe, Nations Turn in on Themselves

Karel Williams, The Guardian

Austerity Is Breaking Spain Apart

Paddy Woodworth, Irish Times

China Itching for a Fight with Japan

Joe Hung, China Post

Fertility Slows, But Global Population Booms

Kenneth Weiss, LA Times

As Syria Totters, Russia and China Shudder

Paul Gregory, Forbes

Can Britain Love the Free Market Again?

Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

In Syria, the Big Powers Play Hardball

Michael Bell, Globe and Mail

Obama Backing Islamists in Egypt

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

China Failing Test of Economic Vision

Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times

Why India Is Paralyzed

Prem Shankar Jha, The Hindu

Can Pakistan Be Saved?

Shahid Javed Burki, The Express Tribune

Putin's Recipe for Disaster

Victor Davidoff, Moscow Times

Tuesday, July 24

What's Wrong with the United States?

Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

Europe's Role in U.S. Gun Culture

Charles Lane, Washington Post

America Has Surrendered to the NRA

Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail

The Consequences of Syria's Fall

George Friedman, Stratfor

Grand Strategy of the Authoritarian Axis

William Martel, The Diplomat

With a Black Eye, the Euro Will Survive

Gordon & Rediker, Foreign Policy

Shut Down the World Bank

Doug Bandow, Forbes

For Iran, Learn from Iraq 1991-94

Bennett Ramberg, Politico

President Romney Is Just What Tories Need

Iain Martin, Daily Telegraph

Libya Slogs Toward Democracy

Fred Abrahams, The Daily Beast

Why Does Turkey Want Syrian Regime Change?

Halil Karaveli, TNI

Assad Family Won't Allow an Alawite State

Faisal al Yafai, The National

America the Energy Superpower

David Karl, Foreign Policy Association

A Sagging U.S.-India Relationship

Ajai Shukla, Business Standard

How Poles View the American Election

George Weigel, National Review

Wednesday, July 25

Syria Is Iraq

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Why Mali Is Not the Next Afghanistan

Gregory Mann, Foreign Policy

America's Flawed Democracy Could Learn from China

Daniel Bell, CSM

Europe Sleepwalks Toward Disaster

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph

Japan's Quietly Dying Democracy

Kevin Rafferty, Japan Times

Obama's Cost-Free Drone Wars

Thomas P. M. Barnett, World Politics Review

A 'Responsible' End to the Iraq War?

Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard

Assad's Fall Is Maliki's Nightmare

Dov Zakheim, The National Interest

Why Tribes Matter in Syria

Hassan Hassan, The Guardian

Is Syria's Chem Weapons Threat for Real?

Shashank Joshi, Independent

Iran's Delicate Strategy in Hormuz

Kayhan Barzegar, The Diplomat

Euro's Rapid Fall Can Save Spain

Martin Feldstein, Financial Times

Yemen: Where al-Qaeda Has Tanks

Bobby Ghosh, Time

Only Low Oil Prices Will Oust Putin

Dmitry Travin, Moscow Times

Israel Confronts a Flood of African Refugees

Ruth Marcus, Wash Post

Thursday, July 26

Meet the Islamist Rebels Trying to Rule Syria

Rania Abouzeid, Time

Islamist Terror Links Syria and Iraq

Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

What I Learned from the Taliban

Anatol Lieven, Financial Times

Don't Fear the Iranian Oil Reaper

Mark Wallace, RealClearWorld

Why a Huge Corn Harvest Is Sparking Fear

Evan Fraser, Ottawa Citizen

What America Must Do in Syria

David Ignatius, Washington Post

U.S. Doesn't Need to Police Mideast

William Chip, American Conservative

Israel's Settlers Are Here to Stay

Dani Dayan, New York Times

Spain Looks North for a Bailout

Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard

Obama's Classic Republican Foreign Policy

Jonathan Rauch, New Republic

What Cameron Can Teach Romney

Matthew d'Ancona, Evening Standard

Tories Abandon Cameron in Droves

Andrew Pierce, Daily Mail

The Ironies of the Iraq War

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

Will Germany Step in to Save Euro?

Desmond Lachman, RealClearMarkets

Why Does the UN Still Exist?

Kenneth Anderson, Defining Ideas

Friday, July 27

London Struts on the World Stage

Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, NY Times

Glasnost in North Korea?

John Delury, Yale Global

What's So Funny About North Korea?

Blaine Harden, Foreign Policy

Romney's Itinerary a Rebuke of Obama

Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post

Don't Expect Romney to End Iran Standoff

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

U.S. Moralism Not the Answer in Syria

Barry Cooper, Calgary Herald

Assad's Useful Idiots

Noah Glyn, National Review

Turkey: Forgotten Ally in a Forgotten War

Richard Weitz, RealClearWorld

It's Not a Hindu vs. Muslim Conflict in Assam

Sudheendra Kulkarni, Rediff

The Meme of the 'Weak' UN Arms Treaty

Ted Bromund, The Commentator

Circumcision & Religion-bashing in Germany

Matthias Matussek, Spiegel

Tony Blair's Cruel Reality Check

Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

What China Learned from the USSR's Fall

A. Greer Meisels, The Diplomat

Is U.S. Falling Behind the World in Science?

Berezow & Campbell, GPS

Is the Slovakia Miracle for Real?

Florence Beuge, Le Monde

Saturday, July 28

Grimy, Chaotic - London at Its Finest

Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

Romneyshambles Unites UK in Outrage

Jonathan Freedland, Guardian

Romney Isn't Out to Make the World Swoon

Fouad Ajami, Washington Post

How an Accidental War with Iran Could Start

Robert Dreyfuss, Diplomat

WMD Changes the Syria Debate

Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

Syrian Wheel of Fortune Spins China's Way

Peter Lee, Asia Times

Don't Be Fooled By North Korean Images

Kang Young-jin, JoongAng Daily

Central Asia Might Explode

Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs

Can the German Left Save the Eurozone?

Christian Rickens, Der Spiegel

The European Nation State Is Here to Stay

Ulrich Speck, Carnegie Europe

Is Israel Romney's New Swing State?

Eli Lake, The Daily Beast

Obama's Problematic Pivot

Abramowitz & Bosworth, The National Interest

Oil Ironies for Canada's Harper

Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail

Experiments with Gandhi in Russia

Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu

1948: Hosting an Olympics for a Shattered World

Jim Coyle, Toronto Star

Sunday, July 29

Mitt Romney's Scary World

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

In Europe, a Lull Between Blunders

George Jonas, National Post

Best Time for Taliban Talks Is Now

Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

U.S. the Driving Force Behind Somalia Fighting

David Cloud, LA Times

After Assad Falls, U.S. Must Work with Iran

Vali Nasr, New York Times

Syrian War of Hypocrisy

Robert Fisk, The Independent

Britain Is Losing the Economic Olympics

Anatole Kaletsky, Reuters

NATO Misled the World on Syria

Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star

Miliband Should Beware French Connection

Andrew Rawnsley, Observer

Time for Cameron to Act Like a Tory

Iain Martin, Daily Telegraph

Our Summer of Climate Truth

Jeffrey Sachs, Project Syndicate

Myanmar's Budding Miracle

Curtis Chin, Japan Times

In Cyprus, a New Generation Inherits Conflict

Christopher Torchia, AP

Zardari Scandal Masks Pakistan's Gains

Rahul Jacob, Financial Times

The Italian Mafia's New Turf

Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast