Week of February 12, 2018 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, February 12
Mideast Tensions Just Got Even Worse
Aaron David Miller, CNN
Israel Loses a Fighter, and Maybe Something More
Rodger Shanahan, Lowy Interpreter
Israel Defines Redlines For Iran in Lebanon
Gal Perl Finkel, Jerusalem Post
Israel, Syria, Iran Clash in the Skies
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
Another Unnecessary War
Idan Landau, LobeLog
The Dangerous Nadir of American Influence
David Rothkopf, The National
How to Live with China in the Balkans
Filip Vojvodic-Medic, German Marshall Fund
Is Kosovo’s International Love Affair Coming to an End?
Eraldin Fazliu, K2.0
The Search For Freedom After Russia's Invasion
Nolan Peterson, Daily Signal
From PyeongChang to Peace?
Yoon Young-Kwan, Project Syndicate
Hypocritic Oath: The WHO and Syria
Annie Sparrow, Foreign Policy
Xi Takes Aim at Military in Anti-Graft Drive
Charles Clover, Financial Times
Emerging Asia May Never Grow Rich
James Crabtree, Nikkei Asian Review
Managing Ethiopia's Political Crisis
Goitom Gebreluel & Biniam Bedasso, Al Jazeera
Militarizing America's Energy Policy
Michael Klare, TomDispatch
Death of Asia’s Joan of Arc
Hamid Mir, Indian Express
Pence: The United States Is Ready to Talk With North Korea
Josh Rogin, WaPo
Tuesday, February 13
The Middle East's Coming War
Ronen Bergman, New York Times
This Could Be the Crisis That Breaks the United Nations
Richard Gowan, WP Review
Why People Keep Falling For Tyrants
David Livingstone Smith, Aeon
How Djibouti Became China's Gateway to Africa
Dietmar Pieper, Der Spiegel
Uzbekistan: Coming in From the Cold?
Neil Buckley, Financial Times
For Germany, Stability Trumps Ambition
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
The Danger of Undemocratic Liberalism
Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate
Horror in Burma
Jay Nordlinger, National Review
Bosnian Serb Police Arm Up, Stoke Fears
Julian Borger, Guardian
Croatia: The Fragile Heart of the Balkans
Matthew Engel, New Statesman
Inside France's Secret War Against Jihadists of Mali
Didier Francois, Worldcrunch
Mexico’s Drug War Is No Closer to an End
Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
The U.S. Is in the Business of Tearing Families Apart
Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker
There's a Crack Between the U.S. and Europe Over China
Hal Brands, Bloomberg View
The Fetishization of Kim Yo Jong
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
Wednesday, February 14
The (Former) Soviet Empire Strikes Back
Richard Sokolsky & Paul Stronski, Nat. Interest
Israel Lost a Jet, But Proved It Would Win the War
Amos Yadlin & Ari Heistein, TCB
Russia’s Clash With the West Is About Geography, Not Ideology
Benn Steil, F. Policy
Is the Illuminati Running the World?
Julian Baggini, The Guardian
Merkel's Final Act
Derek Scally, Berlin Policy Journal
Putin Is Struggling to Keep His Wars Separate
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Why South Africa Matters to the World
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Animosity Toward U.S. Uniting Turkey, Russia, Iran in Syria
Semih Idiz, Al Monitor
The Double Threat to Liberal Democracy
Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate
Germany: Martin Schulz Steps Down As Spd Head
Deutsche Welle
A Strongman's Path to Uncontested Re-Election
Asmahan Soliman, Worldcrunch
China Isn't America's Enemy, at Least Not Yet
James Stavridis, Bloomberg
Jacob Zuma's Last Stand
Economist
Boris Johnson to Warn U.K. Against Reversing Brexit
Stephen Castle, New York Times
A ‘Credible’ EU Strategy for Balkans Expansion
Antonia Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures
Thursday, February 15
All Guns, No Butter
Fred Kaplan, Slate
British Royal Navy Will Send a Frigate to the South China Sea
Ankit Panda, Diplomat
Israeli Settlements Renew Push for U.S. Anti-Boycott Laws
Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor
Chinese Government Funding Student Groups at U.S. Universities
Foreign Policy
Syria's War Has Never Been More International
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
South Africa Wakes up to the End of Zuma
Gavin Du Venage, The National
Germany Charts Its Place in the World, but Struggles to Adapt
Ulrike Franke, WotR
NATO Bolsters Indigenous Air Capability
David Pugliese & Aaron Mehta, Defense News
AI Is the New Battleground in Geopolitics
Steve LeVine, Axios
Relations between Washington and Islamabad? It’s Complicated
The Cipher Brief
Russian Military Power in the Indo-Asia-Pacific
Alexey Muraviev, The Strategist (ASPI)
Why America Shouldn't Try to Influence Iran's Future
Andrew Miller, et al., National Int.
UK Blames Russia for NotPetya Cyber Attack
Reuters
Will Netanyahu’s Scandal Impact Middle East Stability?
Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem P.
The Power of Dialogue in a Disrupted World
Klaus Schwab, Project Syndicate
Friday, February 16
Xi Jinping May Turn to Top Ally to Handle U.S. Pressure
Don Tse & L. Ong, Diplomat
Admiral Warns U.S. Must Prepare for Possibility of War With China
The Guardian
Munich Security Conference: World on 'Brink of Significant Conflict'
Radio Free E.
Kremlin Covertly Promoting Regime Change in Latvia
Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor
Tillerson Says U.S.-Turkish Ties Have Reached a ‘Crisis Point’
 Bloomberg
The Ultimate Rent-a-War Being Fought in Syria
Thomas Friedman, Straits Times
Rise of 'Cultural Cleansing' by Extremists in Middle East
Caline Malek, The National
U.S. Troops in Europe Must Adjust to 'changing Character of War'
Stars and Stripes
Preventing further Balkanisation of Europe
Lambert van Nistelrooij, Euractiv
The Opportunistic Rise of Europe’s Far Right
Max Holleran, New Republic
Pakistan to Send Troops to Saudi Arabia to Train and Advise
Reuters
Recognising the Realities of Kosovo
James Ker-Lindsay, Balkan Insight
European Defense vs. NATO: Not the Right Fight
TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK, Carnegie Europe
Can Cairo Talks Succeed in Uniting Libya's Divided Armed Forces?
George Mikhail, Al-Monitor
Beijing Giving Latin American Generals ‘Lavish’ Trips to China
Caroline Houck, DO
Saturday, February 17
Will Israel, Qatar Cooperate to Save Gaza?
Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor
Putin’s Shadow Army Suffers a Setback in Syria
Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker
Erdogan’s Fatal Blind Spot
Colin P. Clarke & Ahmet S. Yayla, Foreign Policy
The Inuit and the Lost Franklin Expedition May Solve Arctic Riddle
Paul Watson, DB
China's Political Climate Crushes One More Dream
Timothy B. Weston, National Interest
Russia and China Racing to Get Satellite Jammers
Oriana Pawlyk, DefenseTech
China Warns It May Retaliate If U.S. Imposes Metal Tariffs
Bloomberg
Brazilian Military to Take Control of Security in Rio De Janeiro
Andres Schipani, FT
Populism May Have a Banner Year in 2018—and 2019 Too
Joshua Kurlantzick, WaPo
How Lindsey Graham Came to Embrace a European Army
S. Sprenger, Defense News
Turkey Denies Use of Chemicals in Syria's Afrin
Reuters
Ethiopia Says State of Emergency Will Last Six Months
Aaron Maasho, Reuters
Key Players in the Trump-Russia Probe
AP
'Doom Loop' Binding Weak Banks and Sovereigns Still Haunts Europe
CFR
Theresa May Wants New Security Treaty With EU Next Year
P. Oltermann, Guardian


©2018 RealClearWorld | Go to full site