Week of January 1, 2018 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, January 1
Making China Great Again
Evan Osnos, New Yorker
Why the Iran Uprising Matters
Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic
With the Caliphate Gone, ISIS Has a Deadly New Strategy
Hassan Hassan, Guardian
How an Israeli Joined ISIS and Lived to Tell the Tale
Jack Khoury, Haaretz
Whither Nationalism?
Economist
6 European Elections to Watch This Year
Emma Anderson, Politico EU
Tuesday, January 2
Trump Reverses Obama Doctrine on Iran
Ben Shapiro, National Review
Where We Can Agree on Iran
Mark Dubowitz & Daniel Shapiro, Politico
How Rouhani Can Use Protests to Advance Reform
Mohammad Ali Shabani, Al Monitor
Balance of Power in the Persian Gulf Would Benefit America
Doug Bandow, TNI
Time For India and China to Take the Lead
Dhiraj Nayyar, The Hindu
Grading India's Neighborhood Diplomacy
Vinay Kaura, The Diplomat
The Modi-Netanyahu Era Is Special
Devsena Mishra, Jerusalem Post
2018 Is Coming Hard and Fast at Donald Trump
John McLaughlin, Ozy
The KGB Playbook For Turning Russians Into Agents
Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
Three Barriers to Zimbabwe's Progress
James Hamill, Mail and Guardian
Beijing's Complex Strategy to Corner Natural Resources
B. Chellaney, The National
Russia Dreams of Ivan
Dina Khapaeva, Project Syndicate
Turkey and Israel, Recently Reconciled, Begin a War of Words
Shira Efron,  TCB
Nobody's Ready For the Killer Robot
Tobin Harshaw & Robert Latiff, Bloomberg View
100 Years Later, Giving Wilson’s Fourteen Points Another Look
Daniel Fried, AC
The American Empire Is Crumbling
Ryan Cooper, The Week
Wednesday, January 3
Iran Protests Could Move Trump to Kill Nuclear Deal
M. Crowley & E. Johnson, Politico
What Israeli intel Thinks About the Iran Protests
Amos Harel, Haaretz
America Still Needs an Asia Strategy
Sandy Pho & Michael Kugelman, National Interest
Russia's Information Warfare Is a Dud Where It Matters Most
Bill Bray, Proceedings
UK Looking at Joining TPP After Brexit
Henry Mance, Jim Pickard & Shawn Donnan, FT
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018
Robert Malley, International Crisis Group
Poland Refuses to Read from the Eurocrats’ Script
Michael Brendan Dougherty, NRO
Austria: Russia’s Trojan Horse?
Gustav Gressel, European Council on Foreign Relations
Ankara’s Look to Russia Signals Turkish Disarray
Aaron Stein, War on the Rocks
How Can Democracies Counter China’s Growing Clout?
J. Michael Cole, Globe & Mail
India Needs to Work Harder, in Its Neighborhood and Beyond
T. Maini, NoL
What U.S. Should Do as Protests Escalate in Iran
James Phillips, Daily Signal
What I Learned About Democracy in 2017
Omer Aziz, The Walrus
The Folly of Renationalizing Britain's Railways
James Price, CapX
Thursday, January 4
Atlanticist and Post-Atlanticist Wishful Thinking
Hans Kundnani & Jana Puglierin, GMF
Turkey: Learning From the Ottomans' Mistakes
Xander Snyder, Geopolitical Futures
Will Neglect Drive Yorkshire to a Catalan-Style Revolt?
Simon Jenkins, Guardian
Assessing the True 'Will of the People' on Brexit
Tony Blair, New Statesman
EU Defense Cooperation and Irish Neutrality
Barry Andrews, Irish Times
Behind the ‘Enemy’ Line in Jammu and Kashmir
Happymon Jacob, The Hindu
Jimmy Carter Should Be Trump’s Peace Messenger on N. Korea
Chi Wang, SCMP
The Corruption Scandal Shaking Up Colombia's Vote
Luke Taylor, WP Review
The Iranian Game-Show Host Urging Fans to Burn Mosques
Eli Lake, BV
Iran's Marginalized Working Classes Drive This Moment
Alan Philps, The National
Why Iran’s Middle Class Is Mostly Sitting Out Protests
Borzou Daragahi, Buzzfeed
Iran in Turmoil, to Trump’s Delight
Robin Wright, New Yorker
This Time, We Will Not Be Silent on Iran
Vice President Mike Pence, Washington Post
Lessons From Iran in the Last Days of the Shah
Mary Dejevsky, Independent
The Case For Optimism in 2018
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Friday, January 5
Latvia, a Disappearing Nation
Gordon Sander, Politico EU
The Case Against GDP
David Pilling, Financial Times
Is Bitcoin a 21st-Century Tulip Craze, or Something Else?
Bronwyn Howell, AEI
Political Reckonings Loom Across Latin America
Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
The Iranian Rebellion the World Wants to Ignore
Douglas Murray, Spectator
Protests in Iran Put Rouhani on the Spot
Motevalli, Foroohar & Clark, Businessweek
U.S. Will Withhold Aid From Pakistan
Mark Landler & Gardiner Harris, New York Times
Pakistan Has All the Leverage
C. Christine Fair, Foreign Policy
China and North Korea: Following the Paper Trail
Ryan Manuel, Lowy Interpreter
This Is the Year to Stop Brexit
Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
North Korea Is Reaching Out to South. Be Receptive, But Wary
B. Klingner, Daily Sig.
In Iran, a Ray of Sunshine After 39 Years of Darkness
Neda Amin, Times of Israel
Iran May Be on the Verge of Civilizational Death
David Goldman, PJ Media
The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History
J. Schanzer, The Atlantic
Can India Edify Myanmar to Keep the Peace?
K Yhome, East Asia Forum
Saturday, January 6
Defining What Iran Is Helps Shape the Fight Against It
Bret Stephens, New York Times
Iranian Protests, Israeli-Palestinian Consequences
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Why Harry Potter Is a Tory
Ben Judah, The American Interest
Thanks to U.S., Maduro's Reckoning Is Coming
Michaela Frai, The Hill
Liberia's President-Elect Faces Outsized Expectations
Robbie Corey-Boulet, WPReview
Erdogan's Assault on Turkish Cypriot Identity
Helena Smith, Guardian
Why Can’t We Be Illiberal Friends?
Emily Tamkin, Foreign Policy
Is a Resolution Nigh on Macedonian Name Dispute?
S. Michalopoulos, Euractiv
In Syria, an Attack on Russia's Narrative
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
The Red Emperor
Roderick MacFarquhar, New York Review of Books
Mapping a World From Hell
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
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