February 22, 2016 Archives

Week of February 22, 2016 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, February 22

Quiet Handshakes Between Arab Leaders and Israel

Frida Ghitis, WPR

How Putin Is Surviving Cheap Oil

Mark Whitehouse, Bloomberg View

Britons Must Vote to Leave the EU

Boris Johnson, Telegraph

Britain Will Not Vote to Leave the EU

Anatole Kaletsky, Project Syndicate

How to Beat a Brexiter

Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian

Kosovo's Frightening Fragility

Fiona Wong, Ramen IR

A Touch of British Rebellion Is Good for Europe

Merheim-Eyre, Conv.

The Left-Wing Case for Brexit

John King, New Statesman

Cuba Needs Financial Reform, Too

Peter Schecter, RealClearWorld

The Iranian Missile Threat We're Forgetting

J. Ruhe & B. Fleisher, WSJ

The End of the Two-State Solution

Jeremy Saltan, Jerusalem Post

Italy's Naughty Matteo

Giuliano Ferrara, Politico EU

Saudi FM: This Is Not World War III

S. Shafy & B. Zand, Spiegel

Syria Is Not America's to Win or Lose

Aaron David Miller, Newsweek

My Friend, the Former Muslim Extremist

N. Kristof, New York Times

Tuesday, February 23

Will Brexit Even Matter by June?

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Putin Hammers Another Nail in Russia's Economy

P.R. Gregory, Forbes

China's Crawling One-Child Catastrophe

Brian Bethune, Maclean's

Trump & Boris: Leaders of the English Speaking World?

Foster, T'graph

The UK Chases Ghosts

Marc Champion, Bloomberg View

How Close Are We to a Russia-NATO Clash?

David Owen, Huffington Post

The Bumpy Path Forward in Afghanistan

Marvin Weinbaum, RCWorld

Obama's North Korean Gambit

Gordon Chang, World Affairs Journal

Israel Is Eating Its Own

Amos Harel, Foreign Policy

Socialism From Vermont to Venezuela

Matt Purple, National Interest

How U.S. Wins if Iran's Economy Booms

Tabatabai & Crowder-Han, BAS

What It Means to Get Serious About Syria

Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings

Obama Just Wants a Closeup With Fidel Castro

Elliott Abrams, CFR

Who's Left Standing at the End of the Oil War?

Charles Kennedy, Oil Price

Jordan Recasts Lawrence of Arabia

Alex Shepard, New Republic

How Will Iran Choose Its Next Supreme Leader?

PBS Newshour

Wednesday, February 24

Ghosts of 1916 Haunt Ireland's Election

Peter Geoghegan, Politico EU

What Rome Can Teach Us Today

Michael Fontaine, Foreign Affairs

A Softer Iron Curtain Falls in Ukraine

Eugene Chausovsky, Stratfor

Who Wins as Russia and the West Fight

Nelli Babayan, GMF

Requiem for the European Dream

Olivier Guez, New York Times

Why Would the World Want U.S. Leadership?

Chas Freeman, RCWorld

Will ISIS Launch a Mass Drone Attack?

Clive Irving, Daily Beast

Can China and Taiwan Find a Formula to Co-Exist?

E. Chen, Diplomat

Europe Should Fear Putin's Useful Idiots

Alina Polyakova, Foreign Policy

Chicken Little Does China

David Goldman, Asia Times

Brexit Would Help Reform European Union

Simon Jenkins, Eve Standard

India Has no Option but to Engage Pakistan

V. Sudarshan, The Hindu

U.S. Strategy in a New Era of Complexity

John McLaughlin, Global Brief

Fighting Burundi's Information Blackout

Julia Steers, Quartz

David Cameron Treats Boris Johnson to a Thrashing

Telegraph

Thursday, February 25

Obama's Implicit Foreign Policy

Roger Cohen, New York Times

Putin Was Right and We Should Have Listened

I. Ivanov, Moscow Times

Russia Could Be Just the Partner Israel Needs

Josh Cohen, Reuters

Russia Succeeds Only When the West Fails

Mathieu von Rohr, Der Spiegel

Brexit Is Step One of a Likely EU Implosion

J. Gillingham & M. Tupy, TNI

Britain Is More European Than You Think

D. Harding, Bloomberg View

Inside the Tories' EU Dogfight

James Forsyth, Spectator

Iran Pledges Cash for Killing Jews

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Venezuela on the Edge

Robert Kahn, Council on Foreign Relations

Stakes Are High as Iran Votes

Ian Black, Guardian

Liberal, Harsh Denmark Shuts the Gates

Hugh Eakin, NY Review of Books

Why Asia Doesn't Have a Trump or Sanders

Kishore Mahbubani, Huff-Po

ISIS Is Losing Its Capital

Nancy Yousseff, Daily Beast

Ideological Necrophilia Continues to Thrive

Moises Naim, The Atlantic

The Uncivilized British Croissant

Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

The Imprudent German Bank

Harold James, Foreign Policy

Friday, February 26

Israel's Strategic Vulnerability

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Russia's Lost Decades

Fyodor Lukyanov, Global Brief

Brexit Dreams, Meet Cold Hard Reality

Economist

Do Iranian Elections Matter?

Kevin Sullivan, RealClearWorld

How Some Iranians Are Mobilizing the Vote

Saeid Jafari, Al-Monitor

We Can Already See How Obama Failed in Iran

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View

Algeria at the Corner of Peril and Promise

Javier Solana, Project Syndicate

Umberto Eco's Eerie Prediction of Modern Fascism

C Dickey, Daily Beast

Scotland Does Not Love Europe

Donna Rachel Edmunds, Breitbart

Imagine Trump and Johnson Rule the World

Alan Philps, The National

Revive the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

Ross & Makovsky, Wash Post

Terror and Moral Panic in Indonesia

C. Croft-Cusworth, Lowy Interpreter

Indonesia Closes Famed School for Trans Women

Feder & Hindryati, BF

Sanders and Trump Are Too Establishment on Syria

S. Richman, Reason

Russia's Financial Reckoning

Stratfor

Saturday, February 27

Putin Versus Putin

Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review

America's 25-Year Fiasco in Iraq

Perry Cammack, National Interest

Moderation in Iran? Not Likely

Aaron David Miller, Los Angeles Times

Waiting for a JFK Moment in East Asia

Joseph Bosco, RealClearWorld

Legalizing It in Jamaica

Yves Eudes, Worldcrunch

The Kurds Are the Key to the Middle East

Henri Barkey, Wilson Center

Who Exactly Are 'the Kurds'?

Steven Cook, The Atlantic

Welcome to Greece (but Not to Europe)

Michael Herzfeld, Foreign Policy

A Day to Celebrate Irish Democracy

Stephen Collins, Irish Times

Ukraine's Endless War

Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast

3 Steps Venezuela Must Take

Leopoldo Lopez, Washington Post

Resisting ISIS Genocide in Iraq

Stephen Hollingshead, RealClearWorld

The End of the Line for Bolivia's President

Mac Margolis, Bloomberg View

Could the Internet Do What the Euro Couldn't?

Mark Scott, NY Times

Sunday, February 28

Hillary Clinton's Libya Gamble

Jo Becker & Scott Shane, New York Times

Were Iraqis Better Off Under Saddam?

Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor

Europe's Tower of Babel May Soon Fall

Paul Taylor, Reuters

Great Britain's Date with Euro Destiny Is Set

Joel Weickgenant, RCW

Don't Bet on Brexit to Push Scotland Out of UK

Martin Kettle, Guardian

Europe Enters Age of Disintegration

Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times

Assad's Victory Is at Hand

Robert Fulford, National Post

Don't Rush to Judgement on Obama's Africa Legacy

K.Y. Amoako, WQ

Tiptoe Back to Fianna Fail Became Stampede

Mary Minihan, Irish Times

The Irrational Exuberance About the Iranian Economy

R. Taghavi, FP

How Iraqi Forces Drove ISIS from Ramadi

Jane Arraf, Newsweek

Bernie's Deep Ties to Despots

Michael Moynihan, The Daily Beast

Canadian, U.S. Conservatives Make Odd Bedfellows

Jeff Simpson, G&M

What a Trump Presidency Means for the Gulf

Sultan Al Qassemi, MEI

Can Egypt and Ethiopia Share the Nile River?

Daniel Pipes, Japan Times