Week of October 30, 2017 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, October 30
When China Leads
Kevin Rudd
,
Project Syndicate
The Rise of One-Man Rule in China and Beyond
E. Frantz
&
A. Kendall-Taylor
,
Lowy Int.
Force Will Not Extinguish the Catalan Dream
Matthew D'Ancona
,
Guardian
Does Catalonia Show the Nation-State in Jeopardy?
Patrick Lawrence
,
Salon
Catalonia: A Philosophical Case For Secession
Chhay Lin Lim
,
Notes on Liberty
Britain Is Europe's New Sick Man
George Eaton
,
New Statesman
How 'Hindutva' Recast India as the Hindu Homeland
Sam Haselby
,
Aeon
At Luther's Quincentennial, His Brilliance Still Amazes
Quin Hillyer
,
PJ Media
500 Years After Reformation, Christians Still Can't Get Along
Emma Green
,
Atlantic
What Europe Can Do For the Western Balkans
Vessela Tcherneva
,
ECFR
Overplaying Their Hand: The Kurds’ Referendum Debacle
Melik Kaylan
,
WA Journal
Xi Jinping's Strength Masks China's Political Risks
Brahma Chellaney
,
The National
Why Democracy Didn't Work in Russia
Christian Caryl
,
New Republic
Iraq and Iran, Sharing a Neighborhood
Paul Pillar
,
National Interest
The Surprising Support For Capitalism in Latin America
A Oppenheimer
,
Miami Herald
Controversial Trump Dossier: What Really Matters
Michael Weiss
,
Daily Beast
The Sound of Politics
Jeremy Black
,
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Tuesday, October 31
France's Strategic Review: Chasing Grandeur?
Lasconjarias
&
De Saint-Victor
,
WOTR
China's Vision of Global Leadership Takes Shape
Jack Goldstone
,
RealClearWorld
In Catalonia, Let the Long Game Begin
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloomberg View
The Fundamental Threat to Spain
Juan Luis Cebrián
,
El Pais
Catalonia Crisis Hits Home in Belgium
Laurens Cerulus
,
Politico EU
How Saddam Knew America Would Fail in Iraq
Mark Perry
,
The American Conservative
Romania's Merry Cemetery
Karen Hui
,
The Week
America Never Understood Iraq
Robert Ford
,
The Atlantic
Europe's Center-Right Is on the Wrong Track
Cas Mudde
,
Guardian
These Are the World’s Happiest Places
Dan Buettner
,
National Geographic
The China Being Left Behind
Nick Holdstock
,
Prospect Magazine
Donald Trump Should Be Scared
Dahlia Lithwick
&
Mark Joseph Stern
,
Slate
Much Ado About Manafort
Andrew McCarthy
,
National Review
Mueller’s Opening Salvo Is a Show of Strength
S.
Hennessey
& B.
Wittes
,
Lawfare@FP
Wednesday, November 1
China's Aim Is to Be the World's Middle Kingdom
Börje Ljunggren
,
Yale Global
China's Expansionist View of Geopolitics
Zhixing Zhang
,
Stratfor
How Can the West Compete With China's Leninist Autocracy?
Martin Wolf
,
Fin Times
Catalonia Says Never Again
El Pais
The Catalan Circus Comes to Brussels
Ryan Heath
,
Politico EU
Kurdistan, Catalonia, Iran Deal: The Pitfalls of Overconfidence
Ted G. Carpenter
,
TNI
Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion?
S. Marche
, New
Yorker
What Is Putinism?
M. Steven Fish
,
Journal of Democracy
Understanding the Long Game in Syria
Charles Lister
,
War on the Rocks
First Cut at a Theory
George Friedman
,
Geopolitical Futures
Shia Unrest in Hezbollah's Beirut Stronghold
Hanin Ghaddar
,
Washington Institute
Can Suriname Withdraw Its Recognition of Kosovo?
Die Morina
,
Balkan Insight
The Impatient Regionalism of Metropolitan Europe
Ishaan Tharoor
,
Washington Post
Nigeria's Next Energy Boost?
Ayo Awokoya
,
Raddington Report
The Hard Labor of North Korean Workers in China
Brice Pedroletti
,
Worldcrunch
Thursday, November 2
No, Europe Isn't About to Break Up
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloomberg View
Alliances Are For Defense, Not Welfare
Doug Bandow
,
National Interest
Can Trump Reassure Allies in Asia?
Judah Grunstein
,
World Politics Review
How Putin Turns Neighbor Into Adversary
Steven Pifer
,
Brookings Institution
It's Time For a European Magnitsky Act
Dalibor Rohac
,
American Enterprise Institute
The Anatomy of a Russian Facebook Ad
Leslie Shapiro
,
Washington Post
Why Does Uzbekistan Export So Many Terrorists?
Julia Ioffe
,
The Atlantic
The Right's Tiresome Pavlovian Reactions
Jeff Jacoby
,
Boston Globe
The Left's Tiresome Hypocrisy
Noah Rothman
,
Commentary
Is German Development Aid Putting Animals Over Humans?
Nils Klawitter
,
Spiegel
Read Osama bin Laden's Handwritten Journal
Thomas Joscelyn
,
Long War Journal
How the Prosperity Gospel Is Changing Brazil
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
,
Washington Post
Jabhat Al Nusra and Al Qaeda: Riddles, Ruses, Realities
Hassan Hassan
,
National
Moldova’s Media Struggle to Break Free
Kristina Belikova
,
Freedom House
Abkhazia: Still Isolated, Still Proud
Thomas de Waal
,
Carnegie Europe
Reality Dawns on India's Solar Ambitions
Kiran Stacey
,
Financial Times
Friday, November 3
The End of Liberalism?
Damir Marusic
,
The American Interest
Why the Belief in Decline Is So Dangerous
Jeremy Adelman
,
Aeon
Containing China on the Open Seas
Phillip Orchard
,
Geopolitical Futures
Trump Needs to Stop Making Xi Jinping Look Like a Savior
Jamie Fly
,
Out of Order
Secularism Surges in the Arab World
Economist
Mexico's Fiery Populist Savior May Be Too Good to Be True
J.W. Phippen
,
Atlantic
Venezuela's Opposition Is Starting to Unravel
Frida Ghitis
,
World Politics Review
Russian 'Czar' Back in Tehran
Al-Monitor
Iraq Is Not Iran's Puppet
Renad Mansour
,
New York Times
The 100-Year-Old Promise
Clifford May
,
Washington Times
A Time to Celebrate Israel
Lawrence Haas
,
US News & World Report
The Balfour Declaration Century
Bernard Avishai
,
New Yorker
Britain Must Atone For 100 Years of Suffering
Mahmoud Abbas
,
Guardian
A Tectonic Shift in the Geopolitics of Energy
Joseph Nye
,
Project Syndicate
How the Left Lost Its Way
Geoffrey Hodgson
,
The Conversation
Exit Eritrea: A Visit to 'Africa's North Korea'
Bartholomäus Grill
,
Der Spiegel
The Promise of a Bridge in Bangladesh
Sajeeb Wazed
,
RealClearWorld
How the North Korea-Vietnam Friendship Turned Sour
Balazs Szalontai
,
NK News
Saturday, November 4
The Quiet Rivalry Between China and Russia
Robert Kaplan
,
New York Times
3 Steps For Success For Trump's Asia Trip
Gordon Chang
,
National Interest
A Success For 'America First' in Asia?
Thomas Bodine
,
Karl Friedhoff
&
Phil Levy
, RCW
Will Trump Choose Substance or Symbolism in Asia?
Ryan Hass
,
Brookings Institution
The Next Space Race Is Artificial Intelligence
John Allen
&
Amir Husain
,
Foreign Policy
Totalitarian Ideologies Never Die
Anne Applebaum
,
Washington Post
A Federal Spain in a Federal Europe
Guy Verhofstadt
,
Project Syndicate
The Aftermath of Europe's War on National Identity
Amotz Asa-El
,
Jerusalem Post
Turkey and the United States: Still a Crucial Alliance
Ali Cinar
,
RealClearWorld
Millennials Are Clueless About Communism, and It's a Problem.
Jarrett Stepman
,
Daily Signal
From the Islamic State to Suburban Texas
Graeme Wood
,
The Atlantic
Iran and al-Qaeda: Best of Frenemies
Eli Lake
,
Bloomberg View
Khamenei's Messages For Putin
Maxim Suchkov
,
Al-Monitor
America's 5 Greatest Foreign Policy Presidents
Akhilesh PIllalamarri
,
American Cons.
Back-to-Back Attacks in Somalia Prove Power al Shabaab
Les Neuhaus
,
Observer