October 22, 2012 Archives

Week of October 22, 2012 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, October 22

Obama's China Policy a Massive Failure

Aaron Friedberg, RealClearWorld

Why the World Needs a Stable China

Minxin Pei, The Diplomat

Benghazi, Arab Spring Rear Up in U.S. Campaign

David Kirkpatrick, NYT

The Truth Behind the Benghazi Attack

Dettmer, Dickey & Lake, Newsweek

Romney a Foreign Policy Pretender

Brian Katulis, NY Daily News

Islamists Will Never Love America

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

The Arab Religious-Secular Balance

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

Shadow of 9/11 Towers over U.S. Election

Edward Luce, Financial Times

Has China's Economy Bottomed Out?

Gordon Chang, Forbes

A Political Solution Is Needed in Syria

Peter Hain, The Guardian

Britain Mustn't Be Bullied by America

Max Hastings, Daily Mail

Don't Blame Europe for Britain's Woes

Philippe Legrain, Wall St. Journal

Kremlin the Big Loser in Regional Elections

Nikolai Petrov, Moscow Times

Canada's Protectionist Trend

Robert Cyran, Reuters

Mixed Results for Gillard's Misogyny Card

Peter Hartcher, Sydney M.H.

Tuesday, October 23

Welcome to Berlin, Europe's New Capital

Gideon Rachman, FT

The Curse of Lebanon

Jeremy Bowen, The Guardian

Foreign Policy a Bit Foreign in Final Debate

Dana Milbank, Wash Post

Debate Reveals Outdated Foreign Policy

Gregor Peter Schmitz, Spiegel

Romney Beats Obama on Iran

Benjamin Weinthal, National Review

Bringing the Foreign Policy Debate Home

Richard Haass, CFR

George W. Bush Won This Debate

Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast

Romney Can't Afford More China-Bashing

Colin Moreshead, Biz Insider

Could Japan Join Nuclear Weapons Club?

James Holmes, The Diplomat

NATO's Afghan Plan Is Working

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, UK Telegraph

Iran's Military Bluff

Alex Fishman, Ynet News

U.S. Must Not Forget Old Allies

David Miliband, London Evening Standard

Irish Society Colluding in Its Own Destruction

Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

How Iran Uses Iraq to Grab Weapons

Jamsheed & Carol Choksy, Forbes

Will David Cameron Lose the Battle for Britain?

Alex Massie, FP

Wednesday, October 24

America a Country United in Weariness

David Ignatius, Washington Post

A New Low for China Bashing

Stephen Roach, Project Syndicate

The Only Option for U.S.-China Policy

Lianchao Han, Weekly Standard

Will China Adopt 'Singapore Model'?

Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?

Efraim Halevy, New York Times

Al-Qaeda's Resurgence

Bruce Riedel, Yale Global

Scaling Back the American Empire

Seumas Milne, The Guardian

Decline of Family Threatens Asian Economy

Joel Kotkin, Forbes

The Neocons' Long Game

Matthew Duss, The American Prospect

Timidity Causes Syrian Barbarity

James Van de Velde, Jerusalem Post

U.S. May Overtake Saudi Arabia as Top Oil Producer

Jonathan Fahey, AP

A Kurdish Wedge Between Iraq, Turkey

Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Affairs

Sunni-Shia Divide Threatens Pakistan

Michael Georgy, Reuters

Canada Caught in Middle of U.S., China Battle

Matt Lombardi, The Star

Obama vs. Romney on India

Mahanth Joishy, U.S.-India Monitor

Thursday, October 25

Germany's Peaceful Mastery of Europe

Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest

Fall of Living Standards Has Just Begun

Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

Romney Right on Latin America

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

Canada's Crusader for Conservatism

Michael Taube, Standpoint

Five Big Lies About U.S. Foreign Policy

Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy

Iran's Bloody Power Play

Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon

For Israel: Limits of U.S. Friendship

David Horovitz, Times of Israel

Israel's Military Can't Bomb Iran

Philip Giraldi, American Conservative

Drones Are Not the Root of Pakistan's Problems

Michael Krepon, Dawn

Relax: There's No Civil War in Lebanon

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

Turkey an Emerging Islamist Autocracy

Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post

Romney's Defense Plans Don't Add Up

Rachel Kleinfeld, AOL Defense

U.S. Election Shames a Secretive China

Francesco Sisci, Asia Times

Weaker America Is Good for India

Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India

China Faces Double-Edged Sword in Africa

Richard Aidoo, The Diplomat

Friday, October 26

Can Corruption Ruin China?

Evan Osnos, The New Yorker

When North Korea Collapses

Robert Kaplan & Rodger Baker, Stratfor

How Iran Plays the U.S.

Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary Magazine

Remote U.S. Base at Core of Secret Operations

Craig Whitlock, WaPo

Sudan a Frontline in Israel-Iran Feud

Jon Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

Why Is Qatar Mucking Around in Gaza?

David Roberts, Foreign Policy

How Castro Held the World Hostage

James Blight & Janet Lang, NY Times

Why the BBC Is Hopeless in a Crisis

Andrew Gilligan, Daily Telegraph

Dinner with Vladimir Putin

Mary Dejevsky, The Independent

Romney or Obama: Who's Better for Asia?

Richard Weitz, The Diplomat

China's Paid Trolls: Meet the 50-Cent Party

Ai Weiwei, New Statesman

Harper's Bridge to Nowhere (Detroit)

Terence Corcoran, National Post

Will Climate Change Cause Violent Conflict?

Alex Berezow, RCScience

Reading Machiavelli in Iraq

Kenneth Pollack, The National Interest

Quake Verdict Reminder of Tsunami to Come

Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg FP

Saturday, October 27

China's Ferrari-red Communists

Follath & Wagner, Der Spiegel

Will China Embrace Multiculturalism?

Martin Jacques, BBC News

The Endangered United Kingdom

Neil Rogachevsky, The National Interest

The New Space Race

G. Ryan Faith, World Affairs Journal

Israel Should Trade Its Nukes

Uri Bar-Joseph, Foreign Affairs

U.S.-Iran Talks and Israel's Dilemma

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

No Peace with Syria's Tyrant

Natan Sharansky, Washington Post

The Limits of U.S. Power

Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post

Benghazi and the Shrinking President

Mark Steyn, National Review

No Pro-lifer Supports Drones

Jack Hunter, American Conservative

Tories Distance Themselves from Europe

Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph

Russia's Military Build-up

Sergei Karaganov, Russia in Global Affairs

Don't Toss Out Afghan Progress

The Economist

Hezbollah's Back Against the Wall

Varun Vira, World Politics Review

Tunnels of Gaza: Isolation or Escape?

Nicolas Pelham, NY Review of Books

Sunday, October 28

Is al-Qaeda Still a Threat to the U.S.?

Robert Worth, New York Times

Barack Obama Lost the Middle East

Amir Taheri, New York Post

What Type of Navy Does America Need?

Michael O'Hanlon, USA Today

China's Inadvertent Empire

Pantucci & Petersen, National Interest

America's Way or Huawei

Ian Bremmer, Reuters

China's State Companies Aren't Villains

Andrew Coyne, National Post

U.S. Drones Only Create New Enemies

Patrick Cockburn, The Independent

Arming Syria's Rebels Still a Bad Idea

Rachel Stohl & Alison Giffen, Politico

The Dangers of American Exceptionalism

Janice Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen

Letting America's Shadow Recede

Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon

How Will Brotherhood Govern? Look to Sudan

Andrew Natsios, U.S. News

South Korea's Presidential Showdown

Jeffrey Robertson, The Diplomat

How ExxonMobil Outsmarted Baghdad

Ben Van Heuvelen, Foreign Policy

Why Britain Is Vital for the EU

Ulrich Speck, Carnegie Endowment

Alex Salmond: Scotland's Best Asset & Liability

Euan McColm, Scotsman