Week of September 25, 2017 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, September 25
The End of German Exceptionalism
Gideon Rachman
,
Financial Times
Merkel's Lackluster Win Boosts German Democracy
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloom. View
How the Far-Right AfD Changes German Politics
Jefferson Chase
,
Deutsche Welle
Germany Gets a Reality Check
Anne Applebaum
,
Washington Post
Angela’s Ashes: 5 Takeaways From the German Election
M. Karnitschnig
,
Pol. EU
Germany’s Economic Road Ahead
Clemens Fuest
,
Project Syndicate
Understanding the Rise of Germany's Far Right
Daniel Hough
,
New Statesman
German Voters Shake Up the Elites
John Fund
,
National Review
Splendid Isolation
Max Hastings
,
New York Review of Books
Russian Networks Use Catalonia to Weaken Europe
David Alandete
,
El Pais
Iraqi Kurdistan's Unlikely Ally
Kamran Bokhari
,
Geopolitical Futures
The Kurdish Referendum Is Not the End of the World
David Pollock
,
Wash. Institute
How to Win a War on Drugs
Nicholas Kristof
,
New York Times
Western Contempt For China Turns to Panic
Asia Times
Why China's Soft Power Solution Lies in its Past
Robert Thomas
,
The Diplomat
Why Liberal Democracies Avoid War, Prevent Civil Conflict
Democracy Digest
Russia, the Democracy Disrupter
Agnia Grigas
&
Seth Freeman
,
Yale Global
Russia's Focus: The Initial Period of War
Roger McDermott
,
Jamestown Foundation
Iran Needs a Realistic Foreign Policy
Shireen Hunter
,
LobeLog
Tuesday, September 26
Borders Are Back
Niall Ferguson
,
Boston Globe
The Looming Confrontation in German Mainstream Politics
Antonia Colibasanu
,
GPF
How Mainstream German Politics Got Steamrolled
Der Spiegel
Germany's Postwar Democracy Faces Its Harshest Test
Constanze Stelzenmuller
,
WP
New Security Requirements Will Keep Americans Safe
Sec.
Elaine Duke
, RC
World
Trump's Travel Ban Just Might Stick This Time
John Surico
,
Vice
The Tragedy of American Foreign Policy
Robert D. Kaplan
,
National Interest
Is Southeast Asia the Next Middle East?
Dominique Moisi
,
Worldcrunch
An Ominous Future For Kurdistan's Minorities
Kenneth Rosen
,
The Atlantic
In North Korea and Beyond, Myths We Die By
Michael Ledeen
,
PJ Media
'This is How War by Miscalculation Starts'
Zack Beauchamp
,
Vox
California Is Already Preparing for a North Korean Nuclear Attack
Jana Winter
,
FP
The Madman Theory of North Korea
Steve Coll
,
New Yorker
Catalonia Referendum: How We Got Here
Arnau Busquets Guàrdia
,
Politico EU
Five Priorities for Europe’s Transatlantic Strategy
Andrew Michta
,
The American Interest
Is the U.S. Still a Nation Divided?
CBS
Hysteria Is Starting to Spread in Puerto Rico
Brian Resnick
,
Vox
Is the Crisis in Puerto Rico Becoming Trump’s Katrina?
Abigail Tracy
,
Vanity Fair
Iran Has Emerged as the Main Victor in Iraq
Ahmad Majidyar
,
The Cipher Brief
Wednesday, September 27
Brexit Tories Opened a Door: The Corbynites Walked Through
Rafael Behr
,
Guardian
The Twilight of Angela Merkel
Roger Cohen
,
New York Times
Could Israel and Iran Trip Into War?
Meir Javedanfar
,
Zenith
Another Worry For Puerto Rico: Mosquitoes
Maggie Koerth-Baker
,
FiveThirtyEight
Is the Federal Government Doing Enough for Puerto Rico?
David Graham
,
Atlantic
Photos From a Battered Puerto Rico
Alan Taylor
,
The Atlantic
Kurdish Independence: Impossible? Or Inevitable?
Ellen Laipson
,
World Politics Review
The Sino-Singapore Reset
Kavi Chongkittavorn
,
Bangkok Post
Trump Tries a New Tack on the Peace Process
Evelyn Gordon
,
Commentary
China's Muscular Foreign Policy: Bring the Popcorn
Jonas Parello-Plesner
, RC
World
Trump Should Buck the Consensus on the Kurds
Jonathan Tobin
,
National Review
The Myth of a Better Iran Deal
Colin Kahl
,
Foreign Policy
North Korea Wants to Know What Trump Is Thinking
Charlie May
,
Salon
What Germany’s Election Means For Science
Quirin Schiermeier
&
Alison Abbott
,
Nature
Germany Isn't a Leader in Science
Alex Berezow
,
American Council on Science and Health
Does Erdogan Have Any Good Options With Iraqi Kurds?
Omer Taspinar
,
LobeLog
Could Energy Deals Warm Egypt-Israel Relations?
David Awad
,
Al-Monitor
Thursday, September 28
Is the Middle East Breaking Up?
Robin Wright
,
New Yorker
Egypt's Nubia: Drowning by Government Decree
Amy Austin Holmes
,
RealClearWorld
A Macron-of-the-Right Rises in France
Robert Zaretsky
,
Foreign Policy
What Punk Rock Meant to Communist Yugoslavia
Miljenko Jergovic
,
New York Times
Five Things Learned From the Zapad Military Exercise
Mathieu Boulegue
,
Chat. House
Corbyn, Ready for Government? What a Joke
Robert Colville
,
CapX
Anti-Semitism: As Darkness Descends, Labour Leaders Deny
J. Freedland
,
Guardian
Bangladesh, Poor and Stressed, Is Rohingya's Last Refuge
Alyssa Ayres
,
CFR
Russian-Funded Ads Backed Stein, Sanders and Trump
Josh Dawsey
,
Politico
Russians Impersonated Real U.S. Muslims to Sow Chaos Online
Collins
et al,
DB
Poland Challenges the European Identity
George Friedman
,
Geopolitical Futures
Resisting China's Magic Weapon
Anne-Marie Brady
,
Lowy Institute
Australian Navy's Role in Ballistic Missile Defense
Yusuke Saito
,
Proceedings
How to Achieve Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Rand Paul
,
National Interest
Could North Korea’s Example Inspire Iran and Pakistan?
A. PIllalamarri
, The
Diplomat
How Trump Can Improve the Iran Deal
Mark Dubowitz
,
Wall Street Journal
Trump Has Rattled the North Korean Regime
Austin Bay
,
Observer
Germany, Still Divided
Nick Robins-Early
,
Huffington Post
Friday, September 29
The Who, Where, and When of Secession
Joseph Nye
,
Project Syndicate
Catalans and Kurds Discover Hard Truths
Max Fisher
&
Amanda Taub
,
NYT
The Catalan Cliff
Majo Siscar
,
Berlin Policy Journal
Our Special Catalan Spirit, Madrid's Heavy Hand
Barbara De Roos
,
Worldcrunch
Why Israel Should Oppose the Catalonia Referendum
Juan Carlos Girauta
,
Jer. Post
The False Dream of a Neutral Facebook
Alexis Madrigal
,
The Atlantic
Welcome to the Age of Knockoff Information
Craig Silverman
,
BuzzFeed
America's New World Order Is Officially Dead
Hal Brands
,
Bloomberg View
Trump Changes Tack on Venezuela
Frida Ghitis
,
World Politics Review
Abe’s Big Gamble
Aurelia George Mulgan
,
East Asia Forum
Could a National-Greens Coalition Work?
Bryce Edwards
,
New Zealand Herald
Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb in Cox’s Bazar
K. Koser
&
L. Schumicky-Logan
The King Hands Over the Car Keys
Elizabeth Dickinson
,
Foreign Policy
Downing Street Continues to Turn Its Back on Cairo
Con Coughlin
,
The National
EU Exodus: When Doctors and Nurses Follow the Money
Ginger Hervey
,
Politico EU
A Field Trip to the Front Lines of the Qatar-Saudi Cold War
Simon Henderson
,
FP
Saturday, September 30
Can Greeks Fix the West?
Thanassis Cambanis
,
Boston Globe
More European Division
David Frum
,
The Atlantic
Suppressing Secession Won't Work
Simon Jenkins
,
Guardian
A Fight Spain Can’t Win
Jacob Shapiro
,
Geopolitical Futures
Can Germany Make an Unwieldy Coalition Work?
Der Spiegel
Saudi Arabia Must Prepare for the Post-Petroleum Order
Mark Lagon
,
Nat'l Interest
How Devolution Can Defeat Poverty
Patrick Spencer
,
CapX
How NATO Got Its Start in a Bavarian Castle in Brazil
Hendrik Meijer
,
Daily Beast
Elon Musk Wants Mars. We All Should
Stephen Carter
,
Bloomberg View
The Iran Deal Is Working. Here's How We Know
John Kerry
,
Washington Post