October 21, 2013 Archives

Week of October 21, 2013 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, October 21

American Debt, Chinese Anxiety

Menzie Chinn, New York Times

The Point of Negotiating with Iran

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Italy Misses the Chance to Reform

Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times

Obama's U-Turn on Human Rights

Fred Hiatt, Washington Post

When the Best & Brightest Leave India, China

Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg

Philippines, Vietnam in S. China Sea

Pitlo & Karambelkar, The Diplomat

Obama's Dangerous South China Sea Strategy

Ted Galen Carpenter, TNI

Can IT Deliver the Indian Miracle?

Greg Sheridan, The Australian

On the Ground with Syria's News Smugglers

Matthew Shaer, TNR

Turkey's Imperfect Peace

Piotr Zalewski, Foreign Affairs

Will Sudan Be the Next Syria?

Sharif Nashashibi, The National

Israel's Frenemy Diplomacy with Turkey

Eli Lake, The Daily Beast

Open Primaries Are Spreading in UK

Daniel Hannan, Daily Telegraph

A Saudi Slap at Obama and the West

Benny Avni, New York Post

The Disturbing World of Jakarta's Street Apes

Perttu Saska, Ufunk

Tuesday, October 22

Why Israel Won't Ask U.S. Before Bombing Iran

Uri Sadot, Foreign Policy

China's Wake-Up Call from Washington

Stephen Roach, Project Syndicate

How Yuan Is Threatening Dollar's Hegemony

Marie Charrel, Le Monde

China's Lopsided, Slowing Economy

Rob Schmitz, Los Angeles Times

Can U.S. Find Its Jeffersonian Foreign Policy?

George Friedman, Stratfor

Watch Out for a European Tea Party

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

The Housing Bubble Goes Global -- Again

Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph

Europe's Great Desperation

Roger Cohen, New York Times

EU Is Damned Either Way on Ukraine

James Sherr, Bloomberg

Harper's Euro Deal Is a Game Changer

Lawrence Martin, Globe & Mail

America Herding Cats in the Asia Pacific

Michael Wesley, The Strategist

A Muslim Russia?

Daniel Pipes, National Review

Can Scotland Become the Next Singapore?

Roddy Gow, The Scotsman

Helping Alberta's Oil Reach the World

Matt Gurney, National Post

The Texan Behind the Hunt for Joseph Kony

Elizabeth Rubin, New Yorker

Wednesday, October 23

The Decline and Fall of France

Milton Ezrati, The National Interest

The American War You Don't Hear About

Ryan Goodman, The Guardian

4 Mideast Countries That Worry Saudi Arabia

RealClearWorld

The Shanghai Secret

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

Saudi Arabia's Security Council Charade

Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post

Why China's Middle Class Supports Communists

David Goodman, CSM

It's Better to Have Assad in Charge

Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph

Polio Is Spreading in the Middle East

Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy

The Arab Spring's Success Story

Hassan Mneimneh, German Marshall Fund

A World with a Receding U.S. Military

Steven Metz, World Politics Review

Drones Will Be Turned Against America

Allan Massie, The Scotsman

How Long Can China's Hot Growth Last?

Simon Montlake, Forbes

Time for Germany to Flex Military Muscle

Constanze Stelzenmuller, FT

Communist Comeback in the Czech Republic

Bruce Konviser, Global Post

Turkey's Quest for a Modern Identity

Ayse Hur, Radikal/Worldcrunch

Thursday, October 24

U.S.-Saudi Crackup Hits Tipping Point

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Saudi Arabia's Unhappy. So What?

Kori Schake, Foreign Policy

For Once, Saudi Arabia Has a Point

Raymond de Souza, National Post

Merkel to Obama: Are You Bugging My Phone?

Ian Traynor, Guardian

NSA, Narcissism and Nationalism

Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast

The Myth of the New Isolationism

Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest

Roma: Myth, Suspicion and Prejudice

Peter Stanford, Daily Telegraph

Africa's New Map

Robert Kaplan & Mark Schroeder, Stratfor

Central Europe's Velvet Power

Kristina Mikulova, World Affairs Journal

Don't Feel Too Bad, Americans, Gridlock Is Global

Moises Naim, Atlantic

'Israel Doesn't Need America on D-Day'

Benjamin Birnbaum, New Republic

U.S. Finally Learning from the Rest of the World

Pam Druckerman, NYT

Montreal's Must-Seize Mayoral Race

Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail

Kirchner Stifling Media in Argentina

Roger Noriega, Miami Herald

Traveling to Iran with Andy Warhol

Dan Washburn, Asia Society

Friday, October 25

U.S. Has Annoyed and Alienated All of Europe

Roger Cohen, NY Times

Germany, Brazil Turn to UN to Restrain U.S.

Lynch, Harris & Hudson, FP

How Naive Is Germany's Angela Merkel?

Nigel West, Daily Telegraph

Imperial Life in the Merkel Republic

Tyson Barker, The National Interest

Southeast Asia Wonders and Worries About China

Fareed Zakaria, WaPo

Why America Needs Japan More than Ever

Weinstein & Yoshihara, RCW

Iraq Deserves Better than Maliki

Rachel Shabi, The Guardian

Everyone Winning on Syria Except Syrians

Gwynne Dyer, Winnipeg FP

Can the EU Keep Russia Out of Eastern Europe?

Ulrich Speck, Carnegie

China Killed Your Dog. Are You Next?

Adam Minter, Bloomberg

A Cure for Africa's Common Cold

Sonia Shah, Foreign Affairs

Japan's Olympic Challenge

Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Yale Global

Beginning of the End for the Kirchner Era

Alvaro Llosa, Globe and Mail

Greenland Opens Way for Mining Boom

Jan Olsen, Associated Press

Indonesia's Economic Bubble

Nigel West, The Diplomat

Saturday, October 26

Assad's War of Starvation

Sec. John Kerry, Foreign Policy

The China Americans Don't See

Xia Yeliang, Wall Street Journal

Obama Fails U.S. Interests in Mideast

Sen. McCain & Sen. Graham, WaPo

Modern Slavery & the UN's Shame

Michael Curtis, The Commentator

U.S. Global Position Collapsing

David Usborne, The Independent

Kim Jong-un: Bad or Mad?

The Economist

Israel's Brain Drain

Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect

The Global Morality Gap Grows Wider

Michael Hanlon, The Spectator

India, China Leave Asian Century Stalled

C. Choudhury, Bloomberg

Obama's Germany Problem

Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest

Saudis Hope the U.S. Comes to Its Senses

Yoram Ettinger, Israel Hayom

Why Ukraine Must Be Part of Europe

Ian Bond, CER

The Myth of American Isolationism

Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch

A Nobel Prize Fit for Putin

Michael Bohm, Moscow Times

President Obama Is No Captain Phillips

Nile Gardiner, RealClearWorld

Sunday, October 27

What Price for Peace with Iran?

Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

China's Coming Slowdown

Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal

Italy Breaks Your Heart

Frank Bruni, New York Times

Western Health Care Is Stuck in Sickbay

Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph

NSA Spying Threatens to Hamper U.S. Foreign Policy

Deb Riechmann, AP

Can the U.S. Differentiate Friend from Foe?

Uwe Schmitt, Die Welt

Germany's Geographical Curse

James Holmes, The Diplomat

U.S. Inattention to Libya Breeds Chaos

David Ignatius, Washington Post

Is This the End of the Iran Status Quo?

Ian Bremmer, Reuters

About That Iran Medicine Shortage...

Ottolenghi & Ghasseminejad, RCW

Independent Scotland Must Own Its Energy

Kevin McKenna, Guardian

So You Think Russia Is Dying? Try Japan

Mark Adomanis, Forbes

Why Pot Is Great for Canada

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

How I Lost the Battle of the South China Sea

Kyle Mizokami, War Is Boring

Where Did the Anti-Globalization Movement Go?

Mimi Dwyer, TNR

RCW List: 4 Mideast Countries That Worry Saudi Arabia