May 11, 2019 Archives

Week of May 6, 2019 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, May 6

How to Win America's Next War

Elbridge Colby, Foreign Policy

Inside China and Russia's Shadow War Against America

Tom Rogan, Wash. Examiner

War in Venezuela? Let's Study That Time U.S. Invaded Cuba

Daniel Davis, Nat'l Int.

Kushner's Middle East Mission Impossible

Aaron David Miller, The Hill

India: The WhatsApp Election

Madhumita Murgia, Stephanie Findlay & Andres Schipani, FT

What to Do About the Growing Russian Challenge

Ashish Kumar Sen, Atlantic Council

Which Way Should Republicans Go on Trade?

Kevin Williamson, National Review

Foreign Policy Is a No-Show in Democratic Primary

David Weigel, Washington Post

Countryside Vs Town? We Don't Need Yet Another Culture War

P. Barkham, Guardian

The Market Is Betting on Climate Change

Wolfram Schlenker & Charles Taylor, Vox EU

Maybe Stop Calling It Team Trudeau

Paul Wells, Maclean's

Quebec Should Have Outgrown This Nonsense

Conrad Black, National Post

Xi Tries to Crash the May Fourth Movement’s Centenary

Jiayang Fan, New Yorker

Was a Russian Plot Behind the Venezuela Coup?

Annika Hernroth, Daily Beast

Bananas May Be Iceland’s Next Big Thing

Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Bloomberg

Tuesday, May 7

Zelenskiy, the Post-Soviet Man

Peter Pomerantsev, The American Interest

What Is Russia Up To Across Africa?

Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review

Why the Democratic Field Isn't Taking on Trump's Foreign Policy

Ira Stoll, Reason

China's Path Not Taken

Ian Buruma, Project Syndicate

May Fourth’s Unfulfilled Promise

Klaus Mühlhahn, ChinaFile

What Thatcher Got Right

Oliver Wiseman, CapX

Why the Mideast Is a Danger Zone Again

Simon Henderson, The Hill

On North Korea, a Return to Fire and Fury Isn't Worth The Risks

Doug Bandow, TNI

What About South Africa's Forgotten Rural Voters?

Martin Plaut, African Arguments

Why I will vote For an ANC Led by Ramaphosa

Omry Makgoale, Daily Maverick

South Africa Confronts One of Apartheid's Legacies

Christopher Clark, The Atlantic

Are the Dutch Willing to Move Beyond Pragmatism?

Niels van Willigen, ECFR

Europe Slides Into the Poor House

Richard Rahn, Washington Times

Orbán, Netanyahu, and the Palestinian question

Eva Balogh, Hungarian Spectrum

Islamic State and the Age of Atrocity

Shiraz Maher, New Statesman

Wednesday, May 8

The U.S.-China Trade Talks Have Already Changed the World

M. Peterson, Atlantic

An Opportunity to Make Iran Back Down

Behnam Ben Taleblu & Bradley Bowman, The Hill

Trump’s Iran Policy Is Becoming Dangerous

Colin Kahl, Foreign Policy

What Geology Reveals About North Korea's Nukes

M. Rogers-Martinez, Conversation

Turkey Descends Deeper Into the Depths of Autocracy

Economist

China’s Role in the India–Pakistan Nuclear Equation

Ramesh Thakur, The Strategist

Time For Australia's Campaign Leaders to debate China?

Richard McGregor, Nikkei

Who Owns South Africa?

Ariel Levy, New Yorker

Is a Populist Party Primed For Big Gains in South Africa?

M Braun, Africa Is a Country

How Far Can Populism Go in South Africa?

Erin Conway-Smith, Foreign Affairs

Are We Seeing a Prelude to War With Iran?

Dina Esfandiary, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

The Internet Grows Darker

James Hein, Bangkok Post

India’s Misplaced Euphoria Over Masood Azhar

Prakash Katoch, Asia Times

The National Register of Cruelty

Raju Rajagopal, The Hindu

Thursday, May 9

Don't Give In to Iranian Blackmail

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View

Iran Sends a Threat, and Europe Scrambles

Keith Johnson & Robbie Gramer, FP

China’s Calculus After the INF Treaty

Wu Riqiang, East Asia Forum

Iran Is Inching Away From the Nuclear Deal. What Happens Now?

Stratfor

'Global Britain' Does Its Foreign Policy on Autopilot

Martin Kettle, Guardian

Anti-Europe Parties Aren't Anti-Europe Anymore

Susi Dennison, ECFR

Stabilizing Northeast Nigeria After Boko Haram

Saskia Brechenmacher, Carnegie

China’s Economy Isn't Out of the Woods Yet

Aidan Yao, SCMP

An America-Russia Proxy Struggle Could Ruin Venezuela

Clay Fuller & Ryan Berg, TNI

Pompeo Is Dead to Berlin

Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU

UK Far-Right Extremism Spreads From the Fringe

David Bond & Helen Warrell, FT

ELN Insists It Is Tired of War

Israel Ramirez Pineda with Mathew Charles, WP Review

Trump’s Tariff Tactic Best Way to Stop China Cheating

Steven Mosher, New York Post

Friday, May 10

China, Russia and the Return of the Civilizational State

Adrian Pabst, New Statesman

The U.S. and China May Not Want a Deal After All

David Fickling, Bloomberg View

China Has Overestimated Trump's Desperation For a Deal

Jamil Anderlini, FT

Encountering Peace: Until the Next Round

Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Post

Only Xi Can Unlock North Korea's Bright Economic Future

Chan Young Bang, SCMP

Netanyahu and Hamas May Both Win Their Prize

Bernard Avishai, New Yorker

Maya Jasanoff, New York Review of Books

Great Power Intrigue In Venezuela

Maximilian Hess, Riddle

Russia’s Struggle Over the Meaning of the 1990s

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, PONARS

Russia's Venezuela Motives: It's About the U.S., Not Maduro

Fred Weir, CS Monitor

Iran’s Nuclear Deal Threat

Aveek Sen, LobeLog

Pompeo Sends the Message Britain Needs to Hear

Ted Bromund, Daily Signal

A Letter to the EU on Europe Day

Ardiana Prishtina, K2.0

Is Jeremy Corbyn Really Anti-Semitic?

Geoffrey Alderman, Spectator

Tory Officials Fear Sixth-Place Finish

Rowena Mason & Rajeev Syal, Guardian

Trump Increases China Tariffs, Trade Deal in Balance

Swanson & Rappeport, NYT

Saturday, May 11

The Brewing Conflict Between America and Iran

Economist

The Art of a New Iran Deal

Sanam Vakil, Foreign Affairs

The U.S. Needs a Real Foreign Policy, Not a Border Wall

Bret Stephens, NY Times

Is America Ready for John Bolton’s War With Iran?

Scott Ritter, Amer. Conservative

Joe Biden’s China Policy Is Stuck in the Last Century

Michael Barone, New York Post

Nigel Farage, Changing British History From the Margins

S. Payne & G. Parker, FT

Trump’s ‘Madman Theory’ of Trade with China

Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy

What China's Fleet Review Showcased

Shahryar Pasandideh, World Politics Review

A Confrontation from Hell

Amin Saikal, Project Syndicate