Week of January 4, 2016 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, January 4
After 1 Million Migrants, Europe's Borders Are Back
Karl Ritter, AP
Obama's Mideast Plan Faces a New Hurdle
Jay Solomon, Wall St Journal
Saudi-Iran Rift Threatens Syria Diplomacy
Dan De Luce, Foreign Policy
Saudi Executions Driven by Fear of Sunni Militancy
McDowall, Reuters
Air Base Attack Exactly Why India Should Talk to Pakistan
S. Vij, Qz
Francois Hollande, the Decider
Nicholas Vinocur, Politico EU
Redrawing the Map the Best Way to Fight ISIS
Tom Switzer, Sydney MH
The 20 Percent World
John Micklethwait, Bloomberg View
Does China's New Carrier Portend Pacific War?
Colby Cosh, Nat'l Post
China's Communists Stamping Out Labor Activism
Friedman, et al., WP
Poland to Trade UK Welfare for NATO Bases
A. Rettman, EU Observer
Release the Obama-Bibi Surveillance Transcripts
Seth Lipsky, Haaretz
Venezuela Opp Picks Old-Guard Vet as Leader
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Who Wants Trudeau's Electoral Reform?
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Food & Climate Change
Raj Patel, Slate
Tuesday, January 5
Obama's Middle East Balancing Act Tilts Toward Iran
Rogin & Lake, BV
Saudi Arabia's Dangerous Sectarian Game
Toby Craig Jones, NY Times
Europe Must Close Borders to Returning Jihadis
P. Johnston, Telegraph
Border Controls Turn Back Euro Clock
Andreas Onnerfors, The Guardian
Merkel's Right-Wing Temptation
Nikolaus Blome, Politico EU
Risk of Britain Voting to Leave EU 'Now at 50%'
Percival, Irish Examiner
The 5 Pivotal Issues of 2016
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Anxious Thailand Worries About Its Image
James Buchanan, Diplomat
The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Party
Mustafa Akyol, ALM
Why Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice
Pierce & Allen, ProPublica
Does Political Islam Have a Future?
Cameron Glenn, The National Interest
Putin's Ugly Anti-Obama Propaganda
Dobriansky & Rivkin, Wash Post
Central Asia: Challenge & Opportunity for the EU
Borrelli, New Europe
World Must Wake to ISIS Threat in Libya
H. Felter, Conservative Home
Rome Is Knee-Deep in Bird Poop
Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast
Wednesday, January 6
What U.S. Policy Gets Wrong About China
J. Hemmings, National Interest
N. Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test
Foster Klug, AP
Why El Salvador Became Hemisphere's Murder Capital
Partlow, WaPo
French Youth And Far Right, A Budding Love Affair?
Collas/Nunès, LM
China's Hidden Protests
Brendon Hong, The Daily Beast
Why Poland Matters
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
The Rise of Taiwan's 'Third Force'
Linda van der Horst, The Diplomat
Why EU's Refugee Relocation Policy is a Flop
M. de la Baume, Politico EU
Saudi-Iranian Crisis Complicates Ankara's Regional Plans
S. İdiz, ALM
What Sunk the Asia Pivot
Joshua Kurlantzick, Democracy Journal
A Saudi View of the Iran Feud
Dan Drollette Jr, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Labour's Reshuffle Kerfuffle is Over
Anne Perkins, Guardian
Venezuela Swears In Opposition-Led Assembly
Vyas & Kurmanaev, WSJ
Putin's Year in Scandals
Masha Gessen, New York Times
Saudi Women Realize Their Rights
Katherine Zoepf, The New Yorker
Thursday, January 7
Why Iran Is Pressing Its Luck
Max Boot, Commentary
Chavismo Is More Dangerous in Defeat
M. Inganamort, RealClearWorld
U.S. Must Open Its Eyes to Changing Mideast
Xenia Wickett, RCWorld
Why Are Scottish Separatists Courting Iran?
T. Gallagher, Amer. Interest
Another Harsh Year Awaits Greece
Stratfor
A Glimmer of New Year Hope for Greece
Simon Nixon, Wall Street Journal
We May Be Funding a New Rwandan Tragedy
Michela Wrong, Spectator
How Does U.S. Respond to North Korea Now?
B. Klingner, Daily Signal
What Just Happened in North Korea?
Amy Davidson, New Yorker
Pyongyang Crashes the U.S. Elections Party
Dennis Halpin, NK News
Stuck in the Middle East
Christopher Layne, American Conservative
Did North Korea Really Go Thermonuclear?
Robert Beckhusen, TNI
France Forfeits Its Values
Robert Zaretsky, New York Times
Germany's 'Russians' Fear New Arrivals
L. Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Drug Violence Is Lowering Life Expectancy in Mexico
Leah Samuel, Stat
Friday, January 8
U.S. Shouldn't Take Sides in Sunni-Shia Struggle
Fareed Zakaria, WaPo
Can Germany Face the Hard Truth About Refugees?
Malte Lehming, TNI
Europe's Emerging Man Problem
Valerie Hudson, Politico EU
Fear and Loathing in Saudi Arabia
Kenneth Pollack, Foreign Policy
Destroying Polish Democracy
Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
Be Scared of China's Debt, Not Its Stocks
Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
China's New Economic Era, Derailed
Keith Bradsher, New York Times
2015 Was a Banner Year for Obama's FP
M. Cohen, World Politics Review
It's Time to Support Assad
Jay Hallen, National Review
North Korea Is a Holdover of Japanese Fascism
Max Fisher, Vox
Alberta's Oil Dreams Sink Into the Glut
Jason Markusoff, Maclean's
5 Upsides to Brazil's Crisis
Matthew Taylor, Council on Foreign Relations
How Washington Can Build Bridges in South Asia
Alyssa Ayres, WOTR
North Korea's Nuke Test Isn't That Scary, but Kim Is
Fred Kaplan, Slate
We Can't Stay Silent on Germany's Mass Sex Assaults
M. Nawaz, DB
Saturday, January 9
Germany Just Changed
Der Spiegel
A Happy New Year? Not in the Middle East
AD Miller, RealClearWorld
Brazil Is Going Nowhere
Peter Schechter, RealClearWorld
Greece's Two Currencies
Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
How Obama Caved
Michael Crowley, Politico
German Police Are Too Soft
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Finally Some Good News in the Middle East
Conrad Black, National Post
The Battle That Kept China Out of Central Asia
Catherine Putz, Diplomat
Germany's Post-Cologne Hysteria
Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
The Hipsters of European Neurosis
Economist
What Really Happened in Cologne
Rossalyn Warren, BuzzFeed
Europe's Migration Crisis Is Bound to Get Worse
JF Kirkegaard, RG
An Experiment in Libertarian Foreign Policy
Brandon Christensen, NOL
Sunday, January 10
Germany on the Brink
Ross Douthat, New York Times
North Korea Is a Joke. And That's the Problem
Jeffrey Lewis, Wash Post
Was Syria Intervention Worth It for Russia?
Paul Saunders, Al-Monitor
ISIS on the Decline
Robert Fulford, National Post
A Year of Great Schisms in British Politics
Andrew Rawnsley, Guardian
Oil Exports to Play Big Role in U.S. Geopolitics
Bill Murray, RCE
Argentina Jumps into Emergency Mode
Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
The World's Most Misunderstood Martyr
Toby Matthiesen, Foreign Policy
Iran Won't Surrender Its Militias in Syria
Hassan Hassan, The National
Taming India's Elite
Sanjeev Sanyal, Project Syndicate
U.S.-Cuba Relations: Plenty to Work on in 2016
M. Whitefield, Miami Hld
The Disappearing Nuns of Italy
Francesca Manolino, Narratively
Lady Macbeth or Just Ashraf Pahlavi?
Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera
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