Week of December 17, 2012 Archives

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Monday, December 17
Obama's Year of Reckoning on Iran
Edward Luce, Financial Times
Shinzo Abe's Sumo-Sized Comeback in Japan
The Economist
Tokyo to Take a Tougher Line with China
John Lee, New York Times
Don't Hold Your Breath for Change in Japan
Hannah Beech, Time
RCW's Top World News Sites of 2012
RealClearWorld
Why India Will Displace China
A. Gary Shilling, Bloomberg
What Makes American Gun Culture So Unique
Max Fisher, Wash Post
Some of the World's Safest Countries Love Guns
M.E. Synon, Daily Mail
Fidel Castro's Last Stand
A.L. Bardach, Newsweek
North Korea: From Bad to Worse
Richard Weitz, The Diplomat
West Will Pay a Price for Backing Political Islam
Farid Zahran, NOW
Syria's Alawites Caught in the Middle
Hassan Hassan, The National
Is Iron Dome Anti-Peace?
Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Pakistan's Normalized Fanaticism
Anita Joshua, The Hindu
Attack Dog Methods Bite Tony Abbott
Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Hld
Tuesday, December 18
Inevitable Return of Europe's Crisis
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate
Is Japan's Abe Going to Pick a Fight with China?
Michael Auslin, FP
Missile Defense Comes of Age
Daniel McGroarty, RealClearWorld
Could the West Buy Assad's Plan B?
Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon
After Assad Falls, What Then?
Haytham Manna, The Guardian
Iran in 2013: Three Possible Crises
Mark Katz, CNN
Obama AWOL from the Middle East
James Jay Carafano, National Interest
How Wal-Mart Bribed Its Way into Mexico
Barstow & Bertrab, NY Times
Abe Should Take Radicalism into Power
Takatoshi Ito, Financial Times
Can 'Abeanomics' Save Japan's Economy?
Anthony Fensom, The Diplomat
Polarized Korea May Elect First Female Prez
Barbara Demick, LA Times
Asia's Ticking Time Bombs
Benny Avni, New York Post
More War than Peace in Burma
Bertil Lintner, Asia Times
Why Israel Has No Newtowns
Liel Leibovitz, Tablet Magazine
Will Kurd Energy Wealth Lead to Iraq War?
Jay Newton-Small, Time
Wednesday, December 19
2013: The Year of Iran
David Horovitz, Times of Israel
The Myth of the Islamist Winter
Olivier Roy, New Statesman
Illusions About Egypt's Islamist Future
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
North Korea, One Year Later
Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs
Obama Has No Business Lecturing Britain
Nile Gardiner, The Telegraph
Boxed in, Japan Swings Right
Ramesh Thakur, Japan Times
Syria's Many Newtown Massacres
Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon
Winter Descends on Aleppo
C.J. Chivers, New York Times
Syria Intervention Risks Regional War
Seumas Milne, The Guardian
A Chilling Account of Syria's Chemical Arsenal
David Ignatius, Wash Post
China Seeks to Create Facts in the Air
Frank Ching, China Post
Youth Is Key to Future U.S.-China Ties
Winograd & Hais, New Geography
Israel's Parallel to Apartheid South Africa
Paul Pillar, National Interest
U.S. Munitions to Blame for Iraq Birth Defects?
Alex Smoltczyk, Spiegel
The Last Stand of Somalia's Jihad
James Verini, Foreign Policy
Thursday, December 20
The Geopolitics of Shale Gas
Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
A Tipping Point for Syria's Assad
P.J. Crowley, The Daily Beast
Why Is Israel on a Settlement Spree?
Michael Koplow, The Atlantic
Rise of New Nationalism in Japan
Toshio Nishi, Defining Ideas
Britain Must Vote on Europe
Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
U.S. Made a Big Mess in Libya
Mary Fitzgerald & Umar Khan, Foreign Policy
Europe vs. Religious Freedom
Glendon & al-Hibri, National Interest
How the Zetas Took Monterrey
Steven Dudley, InSight Crime
What Follows Hugo Chavez?
Vanessa Neumann, Weekly Standard
Why Is Britain Grabbing Antarctica?
Klaus Dodds, Daily Telegraph
A Simplistic View of Egypt, Turkey
Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
Will Pakistan Play Ball in Afghanistan?
Robert Dreyfuss, The Diplomat
Berlusconi's Plan to Regain Power
Hans-Jurgen Schlamp, Der Spiegel
S. America a New Focus for Obama
Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
India's Police Must Get Tougher on Rape
B Raman, Outlook India
Friday, December 21
U.S. Left Syrian Children to the Devil
Fouad Ajami, Bloomberg
Road to Syria Peace Still Runs Through Moscow
Alan Philps, The National
Why Egypt's Generals Back Morsi
Joshua Stacher, Foreign Affairs
China's New Foreign Policy Priorities
Robert Keatley, National Interest
U.S.'s Arrogant Disregard for Mexico Must End
Tim Padgett, Time
2012: A Deadly Year for Journalists
Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen
France's Anti-Rich Boomerang
Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Is Obama a Foreign Policy President?
Daniel Drezner, Foreign Policy
In Pakistan, Healers Become the Targets
Michael Gerson, Washington Post
Why Israel Has Shifted to the Right
Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Mag
South Korea's Blueprint to 'Save' Pakistan
Arif Rafiq, The Diplomat
Why Obama Should Embrace Jalal Talabani
Michael Young, Daily Star
The Right Woman to Lead the Pentagon
Paul Wolfowitz, AEI
Why Good News Is Bad News in Russia
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
Making Jerusalem Truly Indivisible
Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
Saturday, December 22
Sanctions Pushing Iran to Talks
Nazila Fathi, Foreign Policy
Why Russia Wants to Bar U.S. Adoptions
Masha Lipman, New Yorker
China Ratchets Up the Aggression
Nayan Chanda, Times of India
How North Korea Breeds Warriors
Tatiana Gabroussenko, Asia Times
Unbelievable, But Europe Isn't Dead
Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard
Amazing Resilience of Chinese Christianity
Robert Fulford, National Post
Inside China's Secret Arsenal
Peter Singer, Popular Science
Italy: Europe's Impotent Politics in a Nutshell
Tim Parks, The Guardian
Are the U.S. and Israel Heading for a Clash?
Ira Chernus, TomDispatch
A New Agenda for Japan
Michael Auslin, The National Interest
The Stunning Rise and Fall of Japan's DPJ
Todd Crowell, RealClearWorld
Kerry Will Be Put to the Test
Michael O'Hanlon, USA Today
America's Man in Havana
R.M. Schneiderman, Foreign Affairs
How Jordan's King Hangs On
Joseph Braude, Tablet Magazine
Curtains Closing on Julian Assange
Oliver Bullough, The New Republic
Sunday, December 23
Wave of Nationalism Sweeps Northeast Asia
Barbara Demick, LA Times
For Arabs, a State of Abandonment
Rami Khouri, The Daily Star
A Hollow Referendum Win for Morsi
Leah Farrall, The Australian
2012: From Arab Spring to Early Winter
Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Benghazi Questions Unanswered
McCain, Graham & Ayotte, Wash Times
On Foreign Policy, Why Obama Is Like Ike
Fareed Zakaria, Time
Obama Repeating Bush's Mistakes in Syria
Michael Rubin, Daily News
Why Bahrain's Monarchy Hates Journalists
Nicholas Kristof, NY Times
North Korea's Blackmail Missile
Yuriko Koike, Project Syndicate
The World Is Running Out of Food
Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
Abandoning Afghanistan
Gary Schmitt, Weekly Standard
What's Wrong with Indian Men?
Kalpana Sharma, The Hindu
The Divergent Paths of China's 'Princelings'
Damien Ma, The Atlantic
Will Iraq Fall Apart if Talabani Dies?
Peter Galbraith, Foreign Policy
The Coming Burma Boom
Simon Roughneen, The Diplomat
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