October 29, 2012 Archives

Week of October 29, 2012 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, October 29

Benghazi Story Isn't Going Away

Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

Making Iran Say 'Uncle' Might Not Be Smart

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Will Obama Wag the Dog in Tehran?

Niall Ferguson, Newsweek

Just Who Is China's Xi Jinping?

A. Greer Meisels, The Diplomat

Can America Afford a 'Pivot' to the Pacific?

Douglas Macgregor, Time

Permanent Truce the Only Hope for Syria

Jonathan Steele, The Guardian

A Jihadist Group Prospers in Syria

Jackson Diehl, Washington Post

China's Hot Money Exodus

Gordon Chang, Forbes

Democracy Can Make China a Great Power

Dan Twining, Financial Times

Gillard's Asia Strategy Is Pure Spin

Greg Sheridan, The Australian

Vietnam's Difficult Road to Reform

Khanh Vu Duc, Asia Sentinel

Italy's War on Science and Reason

Alex Berezow, Daily Caller

Our Men in Honduras

Lauren Carasik, Boston Review

Israel's Electoral Mess

David Shaw, Jerusalem Post

Colombia's Plan to Integrate FARC

Anne Phillips, Foreign Affairs

Tuesday, October 30

Why Iran Wants to Attack America

Matthew Levitt, Foreign Policy

Romney's New Thinking on Iranian Nukes

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

Why Are U.S. Troops Still Stationed in Europe?

Doug Bandow, Forbes

The World After November

Javier Solana, Project Syndicate

Foreigners Observing a U.S. Election?

John Fund, National Review

How America Looks from the Middle East

Riad Kahwaji, INEGMA

Kidnapping Dissenters an Old KGB Trick

Victor Davidoff, Moscow Times

EU Crisis: Where Is David Cameron?

Raheem Kassam, The Commentator

Forget Europe: Real Debt Crisis in Japan?

Anthony Fensm, The Diplomat

Mo Yan: Frenemy of the Chinese State

Nick Frisch, The Atlantic

Manmohan Singh Must Go to Pakistan

A.G. Noorani, The Hindu

Development No Panacea for Mideast

Barry Rubin, PJ Media

Africa's Coming Youth Revolution

TMS Ruge, Globe and Mail

Daily Life in Islamist Northern Mali

Paul Hyacinthe Mben, Der Spiegel

Christians Persecuted Worldwide

Rupert Shortt, Daily Telegraph

Wednesday, October 31

Benghazi Questions Deserve Answers

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Obama Doesn't Get It About Libya

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

Churchill Hates Obama's Foreign Policy

Harlan Ullman, National Interest

In Russia, Anybody Can Be a Traitor

Andrei Soldatov, Moscow Times

Europe Should Meet Debt Crisis Head On

George Papandreou, CS Monitor

Britain Doesn't Need Brussels

Przemek Skwirczynski, The Commentator

Cameron Must Drop His Europe Charade

Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

Korea Must Build Support for Reunification

Sakong Il, JoongAng Daily

Chinese Watch U.S. Democracy Without Envy

Sebastien Blanc, AFP

Why Is Mexico's Drug War Ignored?

Ted Galen Carpenter, CNN

A Never-Ending Drone War

Micah Zenko, Foreign Policy

The Rise (and Fall) of Europe's Pirate Party

Jorg Friedrich, The European

Hungarian Leader's Audacious Power Grab

Keno Verseck, Der Spiegel

Time to Stop Worrying About Oil?

Steve Yetiv, World Politics Review

China Did Infiltrate with 'Manchurian Candidates'

Mark Sauter, RCH

Thursday, November 1

How to Establish a Moderate Syria

Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer

A Foreign Policy To-Do List

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

A New Social Contract for China

David Pilling, Financial Times

China's Growing Naval Power

Collins & Erickson, The Diplomat

An Italian Spring?

Emiliano Alessandri, German Marshall Fund

Israel Must Wage a War of Ideas

Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post

An Islamist Power Grab in Tunisia

Souhir Stephenson, New York Times

Hurricane Sandy a Planetary Warning

Shepherd & Knox, Toronto Star

Don't Use Hurricanes as Climate Porn

Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun

Are India's Poor Used As Guinea Pigs?

Sue Lloyd-Roberts, BBC News

Keep an Eye On, But Don't Isolate Ukraine

Tim Judah, Bloomberg

UK Must Atone for Its Sins in Palestine

Nabeel Shaath, Daily Telegraph

Kahlon Could Be Bibi's Nightmare Rival

David Horovitz, Times of Israel

Singapore a Model for Chinese Democracy

Peter Hartcher, Sydney M.H.

How the UK Can End World Poverty

J.M. Shaw, Standpoint

Friday, November 2

The Global War on Free Speech

John Kampfner, Daily Telegraph

Troubling Benghazi Documents That the FBI Missed

Foreign Policy

A Timeline of Errors on Benghazi

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Beijing Fakes the Good Fight on Corruption

Minxin Pei, The National

Obama Runs from Iran

Tony Badran, NOW Lebanon

Anatomy of a Deal with Iran

Rajan Menon, The National Interest

The Chinese Are Coming, the Chinese Are Coming

Margaret Wente, G&M

More U.S. 'Civilizing' Missions?

Steven A. Cook, Council on Foreign Relations

U.S. Faces Hatred, Division & Political Collapse

Max Hastings, Daily Mail

The U.S. Is Not a Country Divided

Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

Poland's Never-Ending National Nightmare

Liam Nolan, The Atlantic

South Africa's 'Enemy Within'

Bryan Rostron, Business Day

Japan's Foreign Policy Troubles

J. Berkshire Miller, The Diplomat

Two More Wars Shut Down (Probably)

Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg Free Press

Why Must Belgians Travel Abroad for Cancer Care?

Anne Jolis, WSJ

Saturday, November 3

The U.S. Isn't Ready for Asia Conflict

Michael Mazarr, Foreign Policy

Autocratic Rule Is Over in China

Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel

Did Israel & U.S. Just Practice an Iran Strike?

Jonathan Schanzer, TNR

American Amateurism on Display in Syria

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

American Exceptionalism and Its Discontents

Cliff May, National Review

American Exceptionalism Is Arrogance

Bruce Fein, The National Interest

Europe, Not the Euro, May Split Apart

Joergen Moeller, Yale Global

Will Changes in China and U.S. Matter?

Charles Foran, Globe and Mail

Realist Obama vs. Idealist Romney

Couloumbis, Ahlstrom & Weaver, RCW

The UK's Needless Rush to the EU Exit

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Euro-Skeptics and Petty Nationalists

Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman

Whoever Wins, Big Challenges Ahead for U.S.

Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR

The Next Four Years with N. Korea

Michael Green, JoongAng Daily

Benghazi's Smoking Gun

Patrick Buchanan, American Conservative

China Manages a Tense Transition

The Economist

Sunday, November 4

Despite U.S. Paranoia, the World Is Safer

Greg Jaffe, Washington Post

Inside Israel's Nuclear Wargames

David Patrikarakos, The Telegraph

Greece Flirts with Tyranny

Nick Cohen, The Observer

The Turn Away from Europe

Josef Joffe, Commentary Magazine

New Chinese Leader's Army Ties Could Test U.S.

Jane Perlez, NY Times

Restive Population Spooks China's Rulers

Minxin Pei, Toronto Star

How China Helped Make America

Eric Jay Dolin, The Daily Beast

The Dumb Politics of Benghazi

Michael Hastings, BuzzFeed

Sandy & Benghazi: A Tale of Two Crises

Mark Steyn, National Review

America's Historical Amnesia over Libya

Clara Gutteridge, The Nation

Zetas Cartel Occupies Mexican State

Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times

U.S. Congress in for Foreign Policy Shakeup

Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy

Is the UK Really Back on Track?

Moorad Choudhry, CNBC

How India Sees the U.S. Election

Sridhar Krishnaswami, The Diplomat

U.S. Could Learn from Argentina's Mistakes

Jay Hallen, City Journal