RealClearWorld Week of January 20, 2025 Archives

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Monday, January 20
The Next Era of Superpower Competition
Patrick M. Cronin The National Interest
American Strategy’s Strange Continuity
Richard Fontaine Foreign Affairs
Fear and Loathing in Davos
Camille Gijs and Giovanna Coi Politico EU
Europe’s Ports or Beijing’s Tentacles?
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
Donald Trump’s Biggest Foreign Policy Challenge: Russia
Ted Carpenter 19FortyFive
America Should Be Focused On the Islamic State in Syria
Votel & Dent WOTR
Trump Should Remove U.S. Troops From Syria
Alex Little RealClearWorld
When Israel and Turkey Go to War
Michael Walsh Asia Times
Trump’s Envoy in Spotlight After Hostage Deal
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Ceasefire Is No Victory for the Israelis—or for Us
Rob Killick European Conservative
Britain’s Post-Imperial Delusion
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Geopolitics of the GIUK Gap
Paulo Aguiar Geopolitical Monitor
How Mexico Is Preparing for Trump
Alex Vasquez Bloomberg
The Impact of Trump’s Re-Election for Latin America
Víctor Muñoz ECFR
China’s Young Adults Accelerate Saving, Raising Economic Risks
Reuters


Tuesday, January 21
Can Trump Reach Real Peace in Ukraine and Gaza?
Gideon Rose Foreign Affairs
Trump’s Foreign Policy Is All About China
James Woudhuysen Spiked
Triumphalism Reigns in Washington — For Now
Jamie Dettmer Politico EU
What Trump 2.0 Can Do for Europe
Rod Dreher The European Conservative
Trump is Already Shaping America’s Middle East Doctrine
Seth Frantzman JPost
The Unbearable Price of Freedom
Amichai Eliyahu Times of Israel
Is Ukraine Losing the War?
Alina Frolova CEPA
Trump Holds the Cards To Reshape the World
Kaush Arha The National Interest
The U.S., South Korea and Japan Should Work Together
Jihoon Yu ASPI Strategist
Central Asia Becomes Middle Power Contender
Alexandra Sitenko Res. Statecraft
The U.S. Needs Soldiers, Not Warriors
Eliot A. Cohen The Atlantic
Stefanik Will Deliver on Trump’s America First Agenda at the UN
Jim Banks RCD
Is China’s GDP Growth Only 2%?
William Pesek Forbes
Trump’s Mars Ambition Is Why America Rules the World
Yuan Yi Zhu UnHerd
Burma Is Becoming a Regional Crisis
Sasa and Sam Brownback Newsweek


Wednesday, January 22
The World Is Getting Used to Trump
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Trump’s 'America First' Is Not Realism
Jonathan Kirshner Foreign Affairs
Donald Trump and the Axis of Upheaval
Robert Kelly 19FortyFive
Europe as the Cold War Order Dies
Anthony Constantini Brussels Signal
Dangerous Degradation of Putin’s Regime
Pavel Baev Eurasia Daily Monitor
Rubio Outlines ‘Sweeping Change’
Philip Wegmann RealClearPolitics
No One Won the War in Gaza
Max Rodenbeck Time
Gaza Cease-Fire: The View From Israel
Nimrod Goren Politico
The Hostage Deal Gives Too Much to Terrorists
Jonathan Tobin The Federalist
‘Maximum Pressure’ Won’t Work Against Iran
Daniel DePetris American Conservative
Israel Must Prepare for Confrontation With Iran
Jacob Nagel Jerusalem Post
The Real Insurrectionists in South Korea
Jason Morgan & Kenji Yoshida Asia Times
Will Starmer Tell Us Everything About Southport?
Patrick O'Flynn Spectator World
The Pakistanis Who Spoke Out Against Grooming Gangs
Rakib Ehsan Spiked
Romania's Election and Elite Failures
Richard Kraemer Law & Liberty


Thursday, January 23
It’s Trump’s World Now To Win or Lose
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet The Hill
Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration
Joshua Rovner WOTR
World Leaders in Davos Fall in Line in Trump Era
Flavia Krause-Jackson Bloomberg
A New Chapter for Ukraine
Steve Cortes Newsweek
The Cold War Putin Wants
Andrei Kolesnikov Foreign Affairs
Desperate for Peace, Ukraine Embraces Trump
Zoya Sheftalovich Politico EU
Russia’s Year of Truth: The Soldier Shortage
Pavel Luzin CEPA
Khamenei’s Illusion: Victory, Propaganda and Iran’s ‘Reality’
Alex Winston JPost
Israel Must Military Administer Gaza
Yaakov Lappin Times of Israel
Delusion of De-Escalation on the China-India Border
Muhammad Burhan Asia Times
Why Greenland’s Independence Terrifies Europe
Tsikas Dimitrios TEC
How America’s DEI Bureaucracy Empowers Islamists
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Courage.Media
The Grooming-Gangs Scandal Is Far Worse Than You Think
Phelim McAleer Spiked
The Reinvention of Rishi Sunak
Jawad Iqbal Spectator World
Europe Can Support the Ethiopia-Somalia Trade Corridor
Corrado Čok ECFR


Friday, January 24
Five Problems on Marco Rubio’s Desk
Martha McHardy Newsweek
Why America Needs a National Security Reset
Andrew A. Michta 19FortyFive
Asia Sees Trump as a Steady Pair of Hands
Megumi Fujikawa Wall Street Journal
Emperor Trump’s New Map
Franklin Foer The Atlantic
The Logic of Chaos in Trump’s Second-Term Foreign Policy
Sean Henninger RCW
Does the MAGA Playbook Apply in Europe?
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
Russia Races for Ukranian Minerals Before Ceasefire
Ian Proud Res. Statecraft
Cash-Rich Ukraine Is Future-Proofed (For Now)
Timothy Ash CEPA
How Iran Lost Before It Lost
Farzin Zandi War on the Rocks
Trump’s Israel Support Comes With Strings Attached
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post
Trump Has a New NATO—in the Middle East
Gordon Chang Newsweek
The United States Retreat on Climate
Jorge Gastelumendi Atlantic Council
Europe’s Energy Crisis
Pieter Cleppe The European Conservative
TikTok and the First Amendment
Robert G. Natelson Law & Liberty
TikTok Shows Americans Can’t Be Bothered To Face China
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Saturday, January 25
A Bold Blueprint for Europe’s Conservatives
Nick Hallett The European Conservative
The Limits of Madman Theory
Roseanne McManus Foreign Affairs
Trump Has a Vulnerable Russia Panicking
Toth and Sweet New York Post
Trump Already Faltering in Approach to Putin
Stephen Bryen Asia Times
Hamas Parades ‘Victory’ in Hostage Deal
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Can Trump Make a Deal for Middle East Peace?
Jo-Ann Mort The Guardian
Pharaoh Fell. Hamas Will Too
Mijal Bitton Times of Israel
Stefanik Will Stand Stalwart Against the UN’s Jackals
Ben Weingarten AG
Trump 2.0 Softens on China
Nathan Bomey & Zachary Basu Axios
Yes, Reshoring American Industry Is Possible
Noah Smith Substack
Revisiting the Panama Canal Debate of 1978
James W. Carden American Conservative
Forgotten Wars: The Haitian Crisis
Matteo Balzarini Zane RealClearWorld
Petro’s Colombia Falls Apart
Joseph Addington The American Conservative
Honoring the Victims of the Anfal Genocide
Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed Newsweek
Strasbourg Is an Enemy of Free Speech
Andrew Tettenborn Spiked
Monday, January 27
Trump Is Both Symptom and Driver of a New Era
Frederick Kempe Atlantic Council
Trump’s Colombia Standoff: The End of Post-Nationalism
Mary Harrington UnHerd
DeepSeek Shows Trump Tariffs Doomed To Fail
Nigel Green Asia Times
Trump Must Confront Russia-Iran's Defense Pact
Ariel Cohen The Hill
Greenland’s Prime Minister Wants the Nightmare to End
Mark Leibovich The Atlantic
Why Greenland Shouldn't Become a U.S. State
von Spakovsky & Coates Heritage
Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken
Tom Fairless & Bertrand Benoit Wall Street Journal
The Georgian Opposition in 2025
Mark Temnycky RealClearWorld
Sanction-Proof? How Russia’s War Machine Stays Fueled
Robert Farley 19FortyFive
Don’t Let Geopolitics Ruin Syria’s Transition
Volker Perthes Foreign Affairs
Why Starmer Needs Trump
Hamish McRae Spectator World
By Voting To Leave the EU, We Escaped a Terrible Fate
Jon Moynihan CapX
Tanzania Energy Summit: A Moment Africa Must Seize
Vijay Jayaraj RealClearWorld
Gold Glitters at End of the World as We Know It
David Goldman Asia Times
We Forget the Lessons of Auschwitz at Our Peril
Schneider and Eizenstat Newsweek


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