November 9, 2019 Archives

Week of November 4, 2019 Archives

RealClearWorld Morning Edition

Monday, November 4

10 Lessons From History About What Makes a Great Leader

Andrew Roberts, Time

Might India Start the Next South Asia Crisis?

Toby Dalton & Gaurav Kalwani, WOTR

The Cure for the Plague Is Decency

Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs

An Electoral Turning Point for Hong Kong

Mike Chinoy, Yale Global

Will Protests Herald a New Era in Iraqi Politics?

Dara Salam, Atlantic Council

Can Algeria Make the Transition?

Amel Boubekeur, ECFR

What’s Behind the Chile Protests?

Amelia Cheatham, Council on Foreign Relations

Latvia Enters Autocephaly Fight Against Moscow Church

Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia

The Truth About ISIS's Threat

Aaron David Miller, CNN

PTSD: Treat the Epidemic in Our Ranks

Sean Mulvaney, Proceedings

In China, Every Day is Kristallnacht

Fred Hiatt, Washington Post

Germany's Thatcherite Turn

Sumi Somaskanda, New Statesman

In China, Social Credit Is a More Invasive Form of Social Media

Rui Zhong, Coda

We Need to Admit the Euro Was a Mistake

Gyorgy Matolcsy, Financial Times

Brexiteers Shouldn’t Vote for the Brexit Party

Douglas Carswell, Spectator

Tuesday, November 5

The Coming Middle East Conflagration

Michael Oren, The Atlantic

U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran Could Reach Tipping Point

B. Ben Taleblu, Axios

Hezbollah’s Old Tricks Won’t Work in Lebanon

Michal Kranz, Foreign Policy

National Security Officials Fear White House Reversal on Syria

J. Detsch, Al Monitor

Is China's DF-100 Missile a Threat to the U.S. Navy?

James Holmes, National Interest

The Hostage Drama in Iran Drags On—Forty Years Later

Robin Wright, New Yorker

Remember the Hostage Crisis

Amanda Makki, National Review

India Turns Its Back on Freer Trade

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg

Will India Ever Say Yes to Tough Reforms?

Alyssa Ayres, Council on Foreign Relations

Zuma Launches Latest Appeal to Can Corruption Trial

Rebecca Davis, Daily Maverick

Baghdadi's Death and the Future of ISIS

Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld

Syria and Chemical Weapons: The Horror Continues

Peter Brookes, Washington Times

Wednesday, November 6

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings Institution

Revisiting the End of the Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis & Elmira Bayrasli, Project Syndicate

The EU Transition That Wasn't

Paul Taylor, Politico EU

What Indonesia’s Capital Move Really Means

Nithin Coca, The Diplomat

A Month of Anti-government Protests in Iraq

Alan Taylor, The Atlantic

If Russia Meddled With Brexit, We Need to Know

Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian

Why Can't We Get Rid of Flipping MPs?

Joshua Mackenzie-Lawrie, The Commentator

A U.S. Failure in Southeast Asia

Mark Valencia, South China Morning Post

Is Change Afoot in Azerbaijan?

Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Europe

New Phase in Middle-Power Adjustment to US-China Standoff?

Wyne & Glaser, TNI

Outside World Will Bring Down China's Great Firewall

Niall Ferguson, Boston Globe

Hampering Kazakhstani Exports to Ukraine

Alla Hurska, Jamestown Foundation

Churchill After the War

Andrew Roberts, Commentary Magazine

How Mike Pence’s Office Meddled in Foreign Aid

Yeganeh Torbati, ProPublica

The 8 Best Flea Markets Across the World

Paula Froelich, Newsweek

Thursday, November 7

How Do America’s Elites Stack Up?

Seth Kaplan, The American Interest

What Would 'Restraint' Really Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy?

Stewart Patrick, WPR

The New Anti-Capitalism

Harold James, Project Syndicate

Dancing on the Berlin Wall

John Simpson, New Statesman

Why Would Arab Leaders Partner With Russia?

Amir Asmar, CFR

As Iraq’s Demonstrations Continue, What Comes Next?

Douglas Ollivant, Al Monitor

Afghanistan's Election Should Not Prompt U.S. Withdrawal

Farhat Popal, RCWorld

Recalling Hostage Crisis That Made Iran Forever Hostile to U.S.

S. Henderson, Hill

The Quiet Return Of Nuclear Risk

Anna Akage, Worldcrunch

Another Fraught Election in Divided Spain

Diego Torres, Politico EU

It’s Time for a Neo-Nixonian Foreign Policy

Greg Lawson, The American Conservative

We Now Know Just How Confusing Trump’s Ukraine Policy Was

Uri Friedman, Atl.

A Constitutional Moment in Sudan

Israa Saber, Lawfare

Will Boris Johnson Strike a Deal with Nigel Farage?

John O'Sullivan, National Review

Chile's Protests and Prospects

Russell Crandall, Survival

5 Things to Watch in Tracking the Future of ISIS

Robin Simcox, Daily Signal

Friday, November 8

Germany Remains Tepid on NATO 2% Goal

Matthias Gebauer, Der Spiegel

A Stronger Europe to Face Down Trump? No.

Marcel Dirsus, Politico EU

Emmanuel Macron Warns Europe: NATO Is Becoming Braindead

Economist

Stoltenberg to Macron: NATO’s Not Dead Yet

Foreign Policy

What U.S. Primacy Has Yielded

A. Bacevich, LA Times

National Security Is Made of People

Loren DeJonge Schulman, Defense One

A Russian View on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Andrei Kolesnikov, Moscow Times

I Refuse to Let Separatists Undermine Spain's Democracy

PM Pedro Sánchez, G'dian

What Would It Take to Unify Korea? Germany Offers Lessons

Melissa Chan, Atlantic

U.S. Navy's Mismatch: Old Carriers, New Stealth Fighters

Hypocrisy of Centrists Keeps Corbyn in Charge

Philip Collins, Times of London

How Russia Could Force a Nuclear War in the Baltics

Hal Brands, Bloomberg

Why There Is No Kurdish Nation

John Broich, The Conversation

The Theory of the Islamic State

Stanly Johny, The Hindu

What Happens When the Uighurs Come Home?

Ruth Ingram, The Diplomat

China's Efforts to 'Green' the Belt and Road

Lachlan Carey & Sarah Ladislaw, CSIS

What America's Response to Massacre in Mexico Should Be

Dallas Morning News

Two Years After Mugabe’s Fall, Zimbabwe Returns to the Abyss

Saturday, November 9

The Berlin Wall's Chinese Shadow

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post

Post-Communist Europe Still Doesn’t Trust Its Courts

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Mohammed Bin Salman Having Fire Sale of His Political Power

Steven A. Cook, FP

What Brexiteers Can Learn From India Pulling Out of RCEP

David Dodwell, SCMP

Ukraine Needs More Than Lethal Aid From the U.S.

Sophie Pinkham, Foreign Affairs

Many Jews Want Boris Out. But How Can We Vote for Corbyn?

J. Freedland, G'dian

A Bad Week Can Ruin an Election

Paul Goodman, Conservative Home

I've Seen Some Crazy Things in Ukraine, But Nothing Like This

C. Miller, BuzzFeed

What Britain Does Better

William Falk, The Week