Week of August 14, 2017 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, August 14
Is There an Answer for Macedonia?
Joel Weickgenant, RealClearWorld
The Mess in North Korea Is All China's Fault
Carl Cannon, Orange County Register
We’re Holding Pyongyang to Account
James Mattis & Rex Tillerson, Wall Street Journal
Why Is It All Going Wrong for Emmanuel Macron?
Lara Marlowe, Irish Times
The Unfinished Business of Indian Partition
Jeff Kingston, Japan Times
Why Isn't Narendra Modi Doing More?
Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg
The West’s Abandonment of Syria Is a Crime
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail
Angela Merkel Keeps Her Cool in Campaign Kickoff
Victor Brechenmacher, Politico EU
The Gupta Brothers: South Africa’s Power Brokers
Joseph Cotterill, Financial Times
Tillerson Trying to Replicate Jim Baker's State Department
James Jay Carafano, TNI
Inside the ‘New York Channel’ Between U.S. and North Korea
Josh Rogin, WaPo
North Korea Crisis Has Serious Implications for Mideast
David Rothkopf, National
NAFTA Emerges as Trudeau's Biggest, Unexpected Test
John Geddes, Maclean's
Yes Congress, Afghanistan Is Your Vietnam
Andrew Bacevich, American Conservative
U.S.-Style Election Skulduggery Taints Kenya Vote
Margot Kiser, The Daily Beast
Meet the Most Powerful Woman in Japan
Joji Sakurai, New Statesman
Tuesday, August 15
America's Darwinian Nationalism
Robert Kaplan, National Interest
Will NAFTA Negotiations Undermine Mexico's Energy Reforms?
Duncan Wood, RCW
Canada Is Ready for the End of American Leadership
Stephen Marche, The Walrus
Canada Fails to See the North Korea Crisis Clearly
Conrad Black, National Post
German Weapons Makers Profiting From Korea Tensions
Rodion Ebbighausen, DW
Work to Accelerate Iran's Fall
Robert Joseph, Weekly Standard
In Race Between Turkey and the UAE, Somalia Wins
Stratfor
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Let's Keep Some Perspective on Charlottesville
Roger Simon, PJ Media
America Looks Like a Dangerous Nation
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
A Tiny Pacific Island Caught in a Global Power Struggle
Daniel Lin, Nat. Geographic
Leadership Needed to Address Venezuela’s Dictatorship
Ana Quintana, Heritage
Patronizing European Advice Won't Make Africa Rich
Stacy Ndlovu, CapX
Want to Hit Russian Pocketbooks? Target Offshore
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloom. View
Can the U.S.-South Korea Relationship Withstand This?
Alice McCool, Radd. Report
Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism
Kristen Ghodsee, NYT Sunday Review
No One Wants a 'Centrist' Party
Stephen Daisley
The Sound and the Fury: Sonic Weapons in Cuba
Kaitlin Lavinder & Keith Melton, TCB
Trump Hands Venezuela's Hard-Liners a Propaganda Win
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Can Nation Building Make a Comeback?
Richard Gowan, World Politics Review
Wednesday, August 16
It's Time to Replace the Kim Regime
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
What a Permanent Treaty With North Korea Might Look Like
David Ignatius, WaPo
Why North Korea Walked Back Its Threat on Guam
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
Turning Troops Into Targets in France
Robert Zaretsky, RealClearWorld
American Genius Is Under Attack From China
Wilbur Ross, Financial Times
Trump, NAFTA, and Canada’s Mostly Reasonable Wish List
Lawrence Martin, G&M
Squeezed by India-China Standoff, Bhutan Holds Its Breath
Steven Lee Myers, NYT
Iraqi Shiite Cleric's Saudi, UAE Trips Show Gulf Realpolitik
Jon Gambrell, AP
Two Young Arab Leaders to Keep an Eye On
Rami Khouri, Agence Global
Germany's Success Could Wreck Schulz's Bid for Power
Rainer Buergin, Bloomberg
Jacob Zuma Won, But the ANC Is Unraveling
Prince Mashele, Mail & Guardian
Let Ukraine Defend Itself
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Armed Disputes Reveal Iraqi Christians' Discord
Saad Salloum, Al-Monitor
In Defense of Britain’s Political Center
James Kirkup, The Spectator
What China Can Teach America About Cleaner Air
Daniel Gardner, Straits Times
Canada Struggling to 'Absorb' Immigrants
Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun
A Trip Through Putin Country
Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate
Thursday, August 17
Steve Bannon, Unrepentant
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Trump, North Korea, JFK, Cuba, and World War I
Paul Brandus, USA Today
NAFTA Season Kicks Off!
Philip Levy, Forbes
Vulnerability Is the Price of Pakistan's Independence
Kamran Bokhari, Geo. Futures
Blame Socialism, Not Oil Prices, for Venezuela's Woes
Kristian Niemietz, CapX
America’s Francification, Part Deux
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, National Review
The Big Lie, From Lenin to Lehman
Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
What to Do With Venezuela?
J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic
The Trio That Pulled the U.S. Back From Nuclear Brink
Doyle McManus, LA Times
How New Zealand Could Bring Down the Australian Government
Economist
Balochistan's Spiral Into Chaos?
Muhammad Akbar Notezai, Dawn
America Changed Because It Had Nothing Left to Believe
Bob Carr, Sydney MH
Merkel Looks to Seal Her Place in History
Paul Taylor, Politico EU
Kenyatta's Not Home and Dry, Yet
Alice McCool, Raddington Report
5 Things That Will Happen When California Secedes
Jared Whitley, Am. Conservative
What’s Next for Kenya?
Johnnie Carson & Jonas Claes, United States Institute of Peace
How Are Radicals Created?
Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic
The August Vote That Changed Russia’s History
V. Kara-Murza, World Affairs Journal
Friday, August 18
Things Don’t End Well for Madmen
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Bannon Undermined Trump, Emboldened North Korea
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Bannon Is Right About North Korea
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
Denuclearization Is Dead, Now Let’s Bury It
Michael Haas, The Diplomat
What Kissinger Gets Wrong About Korea
Joseph Bosco, RealClearWorld
U.S.-China Relations: Still in Search of a Trump Strategy
Bader et al., Brookings
Centrists Toil Through the Ideological Wilderness
Owen Jones, Guardian
Another Fatal Ramming Attack
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
An Ordinary Object Becomes an Instrument of Fear
Amanda Taub, New York Times
No Place Truly Safe From Jihadis
Bruce Bawer, City Journal
Schröder’s Russian Sell-Out
Thorsten Benner, Politico EU
Iceland's Eugenics
Alexandra Desanctis, National Review
A Wary Eye on Russia's War Games
Keir Giles, Chatham House
The Matilda: The British Tank That Terrorized the Nazis
National Interest
Malala Makes the Taliban’s Nightmare Come True
Bridget Johnson, Observer
The World May Soon Split Into Two Trading Blocs
Patrick Watson, Mauldin Economics
Saturday, August 19
It's Far Too Easy for Trump to Start a Nuclear War
Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
The Wrong Way to Prevent Nuclear War
Carl Bildt, Project Syndicate
North Korea and Its Tyrannical Friends
Michael Ledeen, PJ Media
Can Trump Close the Deal in Afghanistan?
Dan De Luce et al., Foreign Policy
Could Britain Learn From South Korea's Mistakes?
Shanker Singham, CapX
Ukraine's Would-Be Reformer, Cast Out
Christian Esch, Der Spiegel
Ugly History Shouldn't Be Beautiful
Fred Kaplan, Slate
ISIS Has Made Real Gains in Europe
Thomas Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
Is Donald Trump Now at War With Trumpism?
Freddy Gray, Spectator
Trump Was Bannon's Creation. What Now?
Nicky Woolf, New Statesman
Bannon’s Ouster, the Latest Episode in a Show About Nothing
M.B. Dougherty, NRO
A Historic Chance to Discard Argentina's Populist Past
A. Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Sunday, August 20
Barcelona and Spain’s Sea of Troubles
Tony Barber, Financial Times
The Islamic State's Claim to Spain
New York Times
Europe Dances With the Devil in Libya
Leanne Tory-Murphy, African Arguments
What Europe Should Be Doing to Prevent More Barcelonas
Robin Simcox, Daily Signal
How the Globalists Beat Steve Bannon
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Bannon’s Departure Has Huge Implications for U.S.-China Ties
Josh Rogin, WP
China’s Plans to Rule the Seas Hit Trouble in Pakistan
Saim Saeed, Politico EU
The Guardian of the Liberal World Order
Ana Palacio, Project Syndicate
Taming North Korea -- Without Firing a Shot
John Yoo & Jeremy Rabkin, New York Post
Britain’s Voters Must Have a 2nd Referendum on Brexit
Vernon Bogdanor, Guardian
Getting America and Russia Back to Normal
Robert Legvold, The National Interest
No Happy Ending Awaits Haitian Refugees in Canada
Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
Saudi Arabia Engages Iraq at Iran's Dismay
Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor
Anger Simmers in Philippines Over Duterte's Drug War
Romeo Ranoco, Reuters
Trump's Gift to Venezuela's Alt-Left
Tim Padgett, WLRN
The Housing Battle at the End of the World
Emanuele Camerini & Nola Minolfi, Narratively
Class Consciousness, French- and American-Style
Armond White, National Review
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