Week of January 22, 2018 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, January 22
What Makes a Reliable Ally?
Bryan Frizzelle
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War on the Rocks
The Erosion of Political Power in Germany
Der Spiegel
Don't Know What You've Got Until It's Gone
Fred Kaplan
,
Slate
Whose Decline Is It Anyway?
John Podhoretz
,
Commentary
War by Other Memes
James Kirchick
,
Weekly Standard
Macron the Conqueror
Emile Simpson
,
Foreign Policy
Will South Africa Repeat Zimbabwe's Fatal Mistake?
Marian Tupy
,
CapX
Better Israeli-Palestinian Relations Are Possible
Greg Shapland
,
Chatham House
Turkey Begins Ground Assault on Kurdish Enclave in Syria
Carlotta Gall
,
New York Times
The Tragic Metamorphosis of Mahmoud Abbas
Grant Rumley
,
The Atlantic
Iran Can Set a New Security Policy For the Region
Mohammad Javad Zarif
,
Fin. Times
Pentagon Says Confronting Iran Tops Terror Concerns
Jack Detsch
,
Al Monitor
What to Do When Liberals Are the Censors?
John Lloyd
,
Reuters
Government Shutdown Will Further Weaken Our Military
Frederico Bartels
,
Heritage
Young People Were Russia's People of the Year in 2017
Meduza
Tuesday, January 23
The Best Use For Trump's Border Wall
Jonah Goldberg
,
Los Angeles Times
Corbyn's Takeover Is Complete, and Tories Are Terrified
The Spectator
Britain and France Move to Limit Brexit Fallout
Stephen Castle
&
Adam Nossiter
, NY
T
Don’t Let Politics Block a Sino-UK Partnership
Yu Jie
,
South China Morning Post
Trump on China in 2018: Lover or Hater?
China File
A Useful Tool for Thinking About Brexit and NAFTA
Allison Fedirka
,
Geo. Futures
How Rigid Alliances Have Led Us Into Unwanted Conflicts
Ted Galen Carpenter
,
TAC
Mattis’s Defense Strategy Is Bold
Kori Schake
,
Foreign Policy
The Best (Non-American) Special Forces on Earth
Dave Majumdar
,
National Interest
What Remains for Syria's Displaced People
Kheder Khaddour
,
Carnegie Middle East
Oil’s Uncertain Comeback
Mohamed El-Erian
,
Project Syndicate
Questions Abound Over Canal Istanbul
Metin Gurcan
,
Al Monitor
How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
Tracie McMillan
,
Nat Geo
Choosing Immigration Criteria Is a Sisyphean Task
George Will
,
National Review
Berlusconi Is Back Again
Tony Barber
,
Financial Times
Wednesday, January 24
Europe Braces For Italy's Next Election
Adriano Bosoni
,
Stratfor
Is This the End of Civilization?
George Monbiot
,
Guardian
Freedom on the Wane
Lawrence Haas
,
US News & World Report
Nationalism or Democracy?
Patrick Buchanan
,
The American Conservative
Hell and Back: Remembering the Pueblo Incident
Lt.
F. Carl Schumacher
,
Proceedings
Your Beloved Coffee Is Just Another Endangered Species
Olga Yurkina
,
Le Temps
What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel
Simon Yisrael Feuerman
,
Tablet
What Mike Pence Just Did in Jerusalem
Aaron David Miller
,
Politico
How Much Worse Can It Get For Venezuela's State Oil Firm?
Amy Myers Jaffe
,
CFR
What a U.S.-China Trade War Would Look Like
John Edwards
,
Lowy Interpreter
A Death in Kosovo Stokes Fears, Threatens Peace
Marc Santora
&
Barbara Surk
,
NYT
Speculation Flourishes over Macedonia Name Proposals
Sinisa Jakov Marusic
,
BI
How Far Can Germany's Social Democrats Bend?
Sumi Somaskanda
, The
Atlantic
Will Germany Trade Tanks For Hostages With Turkey?
M. Gebauer
&
C. Schult
,
Spiegel
Erdogan Scored Big With Afrin Operation
Semih Idiz
,
Al Monitor
Thursday, January 25
The Blood Feud Among British Conservatives
Jorg Schindler
,
Der Spiegel
England's Civil War Is Still With Us
Martin Kettle
,
Guardian
Hayek Understood the Peril of Referendums
Christopher Rowe
,
CapX
The Myth of the Liberal International Order
Niall Ferguson
,
Global Times
Donald Trump Meets Davos Man
Nina Khrushcheva
,
Project Syndicate
Trump Is the Worst Salesman America Has Ever Had
Max Boot
,
Foreign Policy
Profiling Viktor Orban, the Adventurous Pragmatist
Andrew Gimson
,
Cons. Home
Tunisia's Healthy Democratic Evolution
Safwan Masri
,
Financial Times
The Feud That Captures the Fight For Serbia's Future
Valerie Hopkins
, WP
Review
Japan, China, and the Western Balkans
Liubomir Topaloff
,
The Diplomat
Growth, Not Equality
Amity Shales
,
City Journal
Is America Becoming More Canadian?
Scott Gilmore
,
Maclean's
How to Stop Countries Sliding Back Into Civil War
Economist
Trump Is Heading in the Right Direction on Iran
Siraj Hashmi
,
Washington Examiner
Repressive China Strongarms U.S. Companies
Josh Rogin
,
Washington Post
Friday, January 26
China’s Rise Is Over
Daniel Lynch
,
Stanford
China's Understanding of Global Order Shouldn't Be Ours
Aaaron Friedberg
,
FP
Francisco Franco Yet Lives
Paul Richard Huard
,
Arc
India's Arc to Southeast Asia
Harsh Pant
,
The Hindu
If You Want to Run the World, Study Something Useless
Sarah Churchwell
,
Fin. Times
10 Battles That Shaped Russia
Brandon Christensen
,
RealClearHistory
Berlusconi Backs a Candidate
Jacopo Barigazzi
,
Politico EU
Italy's Candidates Promise Utopia
Barbie Latza Nadeau
,
Daily Beast
A Glimpse of a Canadian-Led International Order
Matt Peterson
,
The Atlantic
China’s Animated Underbelly
Jonathan Landreth
,
China File
What to Expect From Bulgaria's EU Presidency?
Nikolas Tenzer
,
EU Observer
Europe Isn't Quite as United As It Claims
Ferdinando Giugliano
,
Bloomberg View
Why Carillion's Collapse Has Nothing to Do With 'Neoliberalism'
K. Niemietz
,
CapX
Yemen’s Southern Separatists Take Case to Congress
Bryant Harris
,
Al Monitor
In Europe, Subtle Signs of a Softening on Russia
Tarasenko
&
Fedorov
,
Kommersant
The Palestinian Bet on the EU Could Be Opportunity for U.S.
J. Macaron
,
Arab Center
Saturday, January 27
Trump Conquers the Globalists
Jacob Heilbrunn
,
National Interest
What Are We Still Doing in Syria?
Michael Brendan Dougherty
,
National Review
Saudis Use Aggression Abroad to Calm Clerics at Home
Bruce Riedel
,
Al Monitor
An Assassination Could Be Just What Kosovo Needed
Edward Joseph
,
Foreign Policy
France's Nutella Riots Aren't Funny
Pauline Bock
,
New Statesman
What Is the Endgame in Afrin?
Aron Lund
,
World Politics Review
The Future of War
Economist
Open Societies Under Siege
Roger Cohen
,
New York Times
India’s One Belt, One Road-Block
Jacob Shapiro
,
Geopolitical Futures