July 29, 2013 Archives

Week of July 29, 2013 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, July 29

Egypt's Radical, Islamist General

Robert Springborg, Foreign Affairs

An Egyptian Insurgency Grows in Sinai

Abigail Hauslohner, Wash Post

A Familiar Role for Muslim Brotherhood: Opposition

Robert Worth, NYT

Talks a Win-Win Scenario for Netanyahu

Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel

What Middle Classes Are Really Protesting

Ruchir Sharma, Bloomberg

No, China's Coast Guard Won't Reduce Tensions

James Holmes, Diplomat

Hassan Rouhani's Burden

Ray Takeyh, Los Angeles Times

The Rouhani Fan Club Jamboree

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Israel's Lessons for Improving Guantanamo

Robert Knowles, TNR

Cracks Are Beginning to Appear in Putin's Russia

Garry Kasparov, CNN

Bulgaria's Endless Protests

Simeon Djankov, Wall Street Journal

Al-Qaeda's Play for Lebanon

Jamie Dettmer, The Daily Beast

India's Female Vigilantes

Deni Bechard, Maisonneuve Magazine

How Syria's Civil War Really Affects Israel

Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post

Snowden's Study Guide to Russian Lit

Alan Yuhas, The Guardian

Tuesday, July 30

What a Mideast Deal Will (Probably) Look Like

Ben Birnbaum, TNR

Netanyahu the Peacemaker

Roger Cohen, New York Times

The 16 Countries That Will Replace China

George Friedman, Stratfor

Obama Should Snub Moscow (and Sochi)

David Kramer, American Interest

China Is Set to Suffer the Skyscraper Curse

William Pesek, Bloomberg

Stability Eludes Polarized Egypt

Erich Follath, Der Spiegel

Tunisia on the Brink

Michael J. Totten, World Affairs Journal

Inventing Settlers to Scuttle Peace Talks

Gershom Gorenberg, Daily Beast

How Many Jews Really Live in West Bank?

Elliott Abrams & Uri Sadot, FP

Italy's Shameful Collusion with Kazakhstan

James Kirchick, Wash Post

Obama's Moment -- A Deal with Iran!

Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate

Australia's Cynical 'Stop the Boats' Policy

John Pilger, The Guardian

Why Shinzo Abe Won't Turn Hawk

Miller & Yokota, Foreign Affairs

Justin Trudeau's Smart Pivot on Pot

Lawrence Martin, Globe & Mail

Scotland Might Want to Reconsider Independence

Peter Jones, Scotsman

Wednesday, July 31

Revenge of the Chinese Mistresses

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Why We're Reading China Wrong

Christian Le Miere, Foreign Affairs

Worse than a Crime in Egypt

Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg Free Press

Egypt Is Strangling Hamas

Theresa Breuer, Der Spiegel

Japan's Military Endangers the U.S.

De Koning & Lipscy, Foreign Policy

Hit Iran Where It Hurts

Heiser & Fakhravar, RealClearWorld

Whole World Is Getting Richer

Charles Kenny, Bloomberg Businessweek

Syria Is Broken and Can't Be Fixed

Shashank Joshi, Daily Telegraph

Why the Palestinians Can't Trust the U.S.

Richard Falk, Al Jazeera

A Kennedy for Tokyo

Todd Crowell, RealClearWorld

Australia's Resource Boom Is Over

Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald

Signs You're Vacationing in a Fascist Dictatorship

Stewart Cowley, NS

Why Europe Is an Enemy of Israel

Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute

With Pakistan's Child Jihadis

Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books

Terrorist Chic in France

Richard Landes, Tablet Magazine

Thursday, August 1

Kerry's Big-Bang Mideast Diplomacy

David Ignatius, Washington Post

What Does Martin Indyk Believe?

Noah Pollak, Weekly Standard

Assad's No Enemy of al-Qaeda

Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon

U.S.-Pakistan Ties: Calm Before the Storm

Michael Kugelman, FP

Where Is China's Detroit?

Adam Minter, Bloomberg

Is the Mexican Mob Losing?

America Economia/Worldcrunch

China's Panda Industrial Complex

Heather Timmons, Quartz

Saudi Arabia's Latest Savagery

David Keyes, The Daily Beast

Huntington on Today's Global Upheaval

Robert Kaplan, Stratfor

Three Signs Hamas Is Losing Its Grip on Gaza

Ehud Yaari, New Republic

Is a Cambodian Spring Imminent?

Luke Hunt, The Diplomat

Protests Brew in Darjeeling

Vibhuti Agarwal, Wall Street Journal

Bulgarians Take to the Streets

Ognyan Minchev, German Marshall Fund

Eastern Europe's Freedom Fulcrum

Raymond de Souza, National Post

French Fall Out of Love with Bread

Elaine Sciolino, New York Times

Friday, August 2

Why Russia Turned Against the Gays

Miriam Elder, BuzzFeed

If Ed Snowden Really Wants to Learn Russian...

Carroll Bogert, GPS

The $7 Trillion Problem That Could Sink Asia

William Pesek, Bloomberg

U.S. Must Cut Aid to Egypt

Robert Kagan, Washington Post

Obama's Bad Bet on the Egyptian Military

Rajan Menon, RealClearWorld

Robert Mugabe Won't Go

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker

Booming Zimbabwe Belongs to China Now

Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph

Meet the Cabal That Really Runs North Korea

Geoffrey Cain, Global Post

Italy's French Temptation

Bedock & Steinmo, Project Syndicate

Al-Qaeda Is Back! (But It Never Really Went Away)

Clifford May, NRO

How the MLB Steroid Scandal Explains Debate on Egypt

Marc Lynch, FP

Is Morocco the Model for Arab Democracy?

Michael J. Totten, The Tower

Hezbollah's Partial Isolation

Ron Prosor, NY Daily News

Last Call: Crisis Forces Irish Pubs to Close

Patrick Kremers, Der Spiegel

How the Shah Entangled America

Stephen McGlinchey, National Interest

Saturday, August 3

Why Are the French So Darn Gloomy?

Lara Marlowe, Irish Times

America, You Need a Vacation

Martin Hart-Landsberg, Pacific Standard

Britain Is Now a Socialist Utopia

Toby Young, The Spectator

The Arab World's Crazy Conspiracy Theories

Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine

7 Things Snowden Should Do in Russia

Simon Shuster, Time

Make Russia's Olympics the Gayest Ever

Frida Ghitis, CNN

It's Pointless to Hate China

Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes

Nazi Gaffe Exposes Troubling Trend in Japan

Jonathan Soble, FT

World Needs to Hit Russia Hard

John Moore, National Post

China, U.S. and the Scramble for Africa

Racula Besliu, Yale Global

Why U.S.-India Ties Are Fraying

Frederic Grare, Indian Express

Why Russia Is Looking East

Fiona Hill & Bobo Lo, Foreign Affairs

The Galling Hypocrisy of Latin America's Left

Fabio Fiallo, RCWorld

Islands of (Dangerous) Discontent

Nayan Chanda, Times of India

As Berlusconi Goes, So Goes Italy

Fabian Reinbold, Der Spiegel

Sunday, August 4

The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

Robert Kaplan, The National Interest

America -- Never an Empire

Conrad Black, National Post

Obama Needs a Foreign Policy Reset

Walter Mead, American Interest

The Epic Arab Trek Between God and Gun

Rami Khouri, Daily Star

The War Against al-Qaeda Is Over

Kenneth Roth, Washington Post

America's Misguided Wilsonianism

Josh Kiernan, Jerusalem Post

Is Mexico Winning or Losing the Cartel War?

Jaime Daremblum, RCWorld

David Cameron's EU Tightrope

Bruce Anderson, Daily Telegraph

How Much Power Will Iran's New President Have?

Omid Memarian, FP

The 'Brain Trust' Behind Iran's New President

Andrew Detsch, Diplomat

Syria's Western Jihadists

Souad Mekhennet, The Daily Beast

Immigrants Aren't the Ones Ruining Britain

Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail

Lessons from Berlin's Nazi Ghosts

Edward Greenspon, Toronto Star

Can U.S. Learn from Korea's $4M Teachers?

Amanda Ripley, WSJ

China's Beautiful but Empty 'Little Paris'

Lily Kuo, Quartz