Week of June 11, 2018 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, June 11
The Spectacular Silliness of Summits
Kelly Jane Torrance
,
Spectator
Don't Blame the Far Right For Fortress Europe
Kenan Malik
,
Guardian
Pie-in-the-Sky Demands Won’t Change Pyongyang’s Tune
George Will
,
Wash. Post
Trump's Pitch to North Korea: Become the Next Singapore
Graham Allison
,
TNI
Trump Is Winning Over Skeptics in South Korea
J. Alex Tarquino
,
New York Post
Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies
David Frum
,
The Atlantic
Facing Up to a Brave New World of Trade
Rana Foroohar
,
Financial Times
The G6 Will Be Brought to Heel, and So Will Russia
Baruch Pletner
,
Tsarizm
The Only Possible Explanation For Trump's Behavior
David Leonhardt
,
New York Times
Buckle Up
Jay Nordlinger
,
National Review
Kashmir: Walking the Line
Stuti Bhatnagar
,
Lowy Interpreter
Whatever Happened to Keep Calm and Carry On?
Richard Littlejohn
,
Daily Mail
Rwanda: A Deathly Hush
Helen Epstein
,
New York Review of Books
China Is Richer Than It Thinks
Brendan Kelly
,
Bloomberg
Pakistan's Soft Coup
Jon Boone
,
CapX
Has Erdogan's Attempt to Reshape Turkey Hit a Wall?
William Armstrong
, WP
Review
The EU Is Preparing a Fall Brexit Ambush
T. Shipman
&
S. O'Brien
,
Times of London
Vain and Delicate Donald
Globe and Mail
How George Orwell Predicted the Challenge of Writing Today
M. Gessen
,
New Yorker
Tuesday, June 12
Trump Seeks a Lasting Foreign Policy Legacy
A. Hammond
,
South China Morning Post
A Handshake Decades in the Making
Uri Friedman
,
The Atlantic
Positive Rhetoric, But What Did Kim-Trump Summit Change?
Peter Hartcher
,
SMH
Trump-Kim Meeting Is a Victory For Peace
Freddy Gray
,
Spectator
Can Trump's Strategy on North Korea Actually Work?
Nicky Woolf
,
New Statesman
'We're Prepared to Start a New History'
Gabby Morrongiello
,
Washington Examiner
Rocket Man 1, Trump 0
David Axe
,
Daily Beast
Why the Two Koreas Likely Won't Become One Again
Niki J.P. Alsford
,
Conversation
A Peace Treaty For Korean Peninsula: Will Past Be Prologue?
C. Kartman
,
38 North
Destroying Systems People Have Lost Faith In
David Brooks
,
New York Times
Trump Masters the International Chess Game
Charlie Kirk
,
The Hill
Italy Uses a 'Change in Tone' on Migration
Jacopo Barigazzi
,
Politico EU
Modest Hopes For a Fresh Start in Spain
David Gardner
,
Financial Times
The Tories and Labour Sell Brexit Unicorns
Anand Menon
,
King's College
How Democratic Is the Euro?
Dani Rodrik
,
Project Syndicate
Brexit's 'Bad Boys' Have Some Big Questions to Answer
Matthew D'Ancona
,
Guardian
How to Measure Success or Failure of the Summit
Cheon Seong-whun
, The
Bulletin
Superbugs Are Going to Eat Us Alive
Riju Agrawal
,
Foreign Policy
Surprising Voices Now Claim Globalization Was a Mistake
Richard Fernandez
,
PJM
Wednesday, June 13
It's Not the Nukes, It's the Chance at Peace
P. Beinart
,
The Atlantic
In Diplomacy, Trump Is the Anti-Reagan
Bret Stephens
,
New York Times
Inside Trump’s Gamble on a Portly Murderous Millennial
T.A. Frank
,
Vanity Fair
Now Trump Treats Kim Like a Statesman
Eli Lake
,
Bloomberg
North Korea Is Following the Saddam Hussein Playbook
James Traub
,
Foreign Policy
Bad Iranian Deal Was Always Going to Get Worse
Victor Davis Hanson
,
National Review
The Populists’ Euro
Barry Eichengreen
,
Project Syndicate
The Water Gets Hotter, the Brexit Frog Sinks Lower
Paul Goodman
,
Conservative Home
Stop Crying Authoritarianism Over Poland
P.
Dobrowolski
& M.
Tyrmand
,
TAC
The Limits to Rapprochment Between Poland and the EU
Andrew MacDowall
, WP
R
Is Macron Becoming Isolated in Europe?
Charles Grant
,
Center for European Reform
Can the GCC Survive the Qatar Crisis?
Derek Davison
,
LobeLog
Macedonia Deal Draws Praise Abroad, But Will It Be Enough?
S.J. Marusic
,
Balkan-I
G7: The Most Honest Summit – Ever!
Mike Callaghan
,
Lowy Interpreter
How One Province Succeeds in the Midst of Yemen's War
Adam Baron
,
ECFR
Thursday, June 14
On Trade, Merkel Joins Trump on the Low Road
Leonid Bershidsky
,
Bloomberg
A Cold Turkey Diet Awaits Some Eurozone Members
Jo Harper
,
Deutsche Welle
We Are All Globalnationalists Now
Leon Hadar
,
Spectator
'North Macedonia' Deal Could Still Go South
Gray
,
Barigazzi
&
Herszenhorn
,
Pol. EU
Westminster's Utter Contempt For Scotland on Display
Dani Garavelli
,
Guardian
Russia's World Cup: Fear Not the Honeypot
Mark Galeotti
,
Moscow Times
Gooooaalllllllll: A United North America for World Cup 2026
New York Daily News
How Russia-Israel Engagement Is Benefiting Iran
Hamidreza Azizi
,
Al Monitor
Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov
,
The Paris Review
Trump Meets Kim, Averts Nuclear Threat, U.S. Pundits Go Mad
T Shorrock
,
Nation
Why Trump Was Right to Sit Down With Kim Jong Un
A.D. Miller
&
R. Sokolsky
,
Politico
There's a Presidential Sucker Born Every 4 Years
David French
,
National Review
A South Korean Paper Laments the Summit
Andrew Egger,
Weekly Standard
Trump's New Foreign Policy: The Cooptation Doctrine
Roger Simon
,
PJ Media
Trump Ends U.S. 'Provocations' to Play Footsie With Kim
Gordon Chang
,
Daily Beast
Kim May Emerge As North Korea's Deng Xiaoping
Conrad Black
,
New York Sun
Germany's Foreign Minister Unveils Vision For Post-Atlantic Europe
Euractiv
It’s Time to Get Qatar Back Into the Fold
Benny Avni
,
New York Post
Friday, June 15
Russia’s Great Power Raiding Strategy
Michael Kofman
,
War on the Rocks
A West in Crisis, an East Rising? Comparing the G7 and the SCO
C. Putz
, D
iplomat
Missionary Zeal: How AMLO Plans to Shake Up Mexico
Jude Webber
,
Financial Times
Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity is Not Yet Dead
Christopher Russell
,
National Interest
Merkel's Bavarian Brawl
Matthew Karnitschnig
,
Politico EU
Europe’s Dieselgate
Paul Roderick Gregory
,
Defining Ideas
How the Brexiteers Lost Control
George Eaton
,
New Statesman
What the Singapore Summit Meant
Brookings Institution
Turkey Deepening Roots in Syrian Territory
Fehim Tastekin
,
Al Monitor
What Happens if Mass Starvation Takes Hold in Yemen?
Alex de Waal
,
NY Times
10 Most Important Russo-Turkish Wars
Brandon Christensen
,
RealClearHistory
Can Libya Break Its Vicious Cycle?
David Wood
,
New African
Leveraging Ambiguity in Foreign Relations
Mikhail Troitskiy
,
Yale Global
Canada Comes to Its Senses on Iran
Sohrab Ahmari
,
Commentary Magazine
Will India Finally Be Forced to Wake Up?
Barkha Dutt
,
Washington Post
Saturday, June 16
Analyzing a Mad Stretch of Brexit Politics
Tony Connelly
,
RTE
Corbyn Could Be the Man Who Saves Brexit
Peter Oborne
,
Daily Mail
Constructive Foreign Policy on Russia Requires Facts
J. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
,
RCW
How Trump Just Ended the Cold War for Good
James Pinkerton
,
American Conservative
Trump’s Next Target: NATO
Paul Taylor
,
Politico EU
The Top 25 Teams in World Cup History
National Geographic
China Declares Trade War Launched
Bridget Johnson
,
PJ Media
The False Dichotomy of 'Peace or War' with North Korea
Bonnie Kristian
,
The Week
How the Last Superpower Was Unchained
Tom Engelhardt
,
TomDispatch
The Donald Trump Negotiations Academy
Caroline Glick
,
Jerusalem Post
Could Garbage Bring Down Putin?
Laura A. Henry
,
Newsweek
The Surreal Summit in Singapore
Joe Cirincione
,
National Interest
Press and Party are Deserting Theresa May
Simon Heffer
,
New Statesman
Why the UN Deal With Myanmar Ignores Rohingya Realities
Tun Khin
,
The Diplomat