RealClearWorld Week of August 11, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 11
On the Upcoming Trump-Putin Summit
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Ukraine and Europe Counter Putin’s Cease-Fire Proposal
Pancevski & Trofimov WSJ
Peace Comes From a Product of Concessions
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
The Economics Behind a Ceasefire in Ukraine
Matt Gertken RealClearWorld
From Atlanticism to Pacificism
Francis Sempa RealClearDefense
Will Putin Win the Alaska Talks?
Bethany Elliott UnHerd
Netanyahu Defends Gaza City Takeover
Tal Shalev et al. CNN
The Reckless Recognition of a Palestinian State
Alan Kessel The Hill
Israel and the New Air Superiority
David A. Deptula Foreign Affairs
East Asia’s Demographic Reckoning
Y. Tony Yang Asia Times
Why Trump Scrapped an India Trade Deal
Desrochers and Messerly Politico
Azerbaijan, an Israel-Syria Bridge of Peace
Mordechai Kedar Jerusalem Post
U.S. Military Action Against Drug Cartels? It’ll Likely Fail.
Dan Depetris RS
Rubio to Make the State Department Great Again
Gfoeller & Rundell Newsweek
Myanmar: Asia’s Forgotten Prize
Jim Webb The National Interest


Tuesday, August 12
The U.S.-Russia Summit Is a Symptom of Geopolitical Failure
Edward Lucas CEPA
Putin Really Needs Alaska Talks Too
Michael Corbin Responsible Statecraft
Trump Must Approach Putin With a Very Big Stick
Dan Perry The Hill
Trump Never Agrees to a Bad Deal
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
Why Peak China May Finally Have Arrived
George Magnus The Guardian
The Case for China’s Strength
Yascha Mounk Substack
Taiwan’s Democracy Is Not in Trouble
Howard Shen RealClearWorld
Taiwan’s Future Precarious—With or Without Conflict
Kerry Brown Asia Times
Unseen Risks of Palestinian Statehood
Louis René Beres Jerusalem Post
What Outweighs the Need To Destroy Hamas?
Yosef Blau Times of Israel
Who Created the Armenia–Azerbaijan Peace Deal?
Mark Hertling The Bulwark
The Perils of America’s New Caucasus Entanglement
Eldar Mamedov TAC
Germany’s Merz: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
John Kampfner Politico EU
Friedrich Merz’s 100 Days of Failure
Lauren Smith The European Conservative
The Dawn of Automated Warfare
Eric Schmidt and Greg Grant Foreign Affairs


Wednesday, August 13
Russia Pierces Ukrainian Defense in Donetsk
Yurii Stasiuk Politico EU
Zelensky Scrambles To Avert Disaster
Barak Ravid Dave Lawler & Marc Caputo Axios
How the Alaska Summit Can Succeed
Luke Coffey Hudson Institute
Yes, Borders Can Be Changed by Force
Anthony Constantini Brussels Signal
The Real Loser of the Trump–Putin Summit? Europe
Russell Berman NSJ
Ukrainian Support for War Effort Collapses
Benedict Vigers Gallup
Stop the Senseless Slaughter and Starvation in Gaza
Brad Bannon The Hill
World Rewards Hamas for Its Atrocities
Kenin M. Spivak RealClearPolitics
How the U.S. Could Lose the AI Arms Race to China
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Climate Science Is Not the Law in the U.S.
Gary Abernathy RealClearEnergy
How a Spanish Town Became Europe’s Proxy War
John Mac Ghlionn Courage.Media
When Did We Lose Europe?
Itxu Díaz The European Conservative
U.S. Tariffs Won’t Stop China’s Long Game in SE Asia
Bilal Habib Qazi Asia Times
Big Oil Abandons Colombia
Matthew Smith Oil Price
Africa’s Age Gap: Young Nations, Old Rulers
Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media


Thursday, August 14
Putin Might Pitch a ‘Geopolitical Armistice’ in Alaska
Nikolas Gvosdev NSJ
Trump Must Confront Putin, Not Concede to Him
Luke Coffey RealClearWorld
Unmoored in Anchorage: Europe’s Dangerous Game
Sam Greene CEPA
It Doesn’t Matter What Europe Thinks, and That’s Ok
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
How Conditional Reciprocity Can End the War in Ukraine
Oualid El Ouardi RCW
The EU and the War for Israel’s Survival
Todd Huizinga The European Conservative
Gaza Is Macron’s Last Chance To Prove Himself
Francois Valentin UnHerd
The Lure of Palestinian Statehood
To Put It Bluntly
The Limits of America’s Iran Policy
Charlotte Krausz The National Interest
A Bright Future of Governance in Iran
Fariba Parsa RealClearWorld
The Shocking Rift Between India and the U.S.
Happymon Jacob Foreign Affairs
Trump Shouldn’t Push India to the Dark Side
Doug Bandow The American Conservative
China Will Keep the Quad Together
Justin Bassi & Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan ASPI
The True Cost of Trump's Peace Deals
Patrick Shea Asia Times
When Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die
Isabel Fattal The Atlantic


Friday, August 15
Can the Alaska Summit End the Ukraine War?
Victor Davis Hanson The Daily Signal
Trump Meets Putin: Will Alaska Be Our Yalta?
Walter Clemens The Hill
The Ugly Truth About a Necessary Ukrainian Peace
Adam Mill Chronicles
Trump Is Relishing His Role as Peacemaker in Chief
Jake Traylor Politico
Preparing for the Peace With Russia
Brandon J. Weichert The American Conservative
China Will Never Let Russia Lose the War in Ukraine
Andrew Michta NSJ
What China Wants (And Fears) From a Trump-Putin Deal
Jianli Yang TNI
China’s Economy Shows Signs of Slowing
Jason Douglas Wall Street Journal
The Importance of the U.S.-South Korea Summit
Jihoon Yu RealClearWorld
Keir Starmer’s Art of the Deal
Simon Evans Spiked
Russia’s Hybrid War on Poland
Filip Styczynski The National Interest
Poland’s Choice: Unity or Jeopardy
Maciej Bukowski CEPA
Is King Charles Prepared To Rule a Post-Christian UK?
Jonathon Van Maren TEC
Saudi Normalization Promise Hinges on Palestine
Anat Hochberg-Marom JPost
Ensuring Lasting Peace in the Caucasus
Jim O'Brien ECFR
Saturday, August 16
Alaska Summit Ends With Vague Hints at Something
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos RS
Trump To Meet Zelensky on Monday
Barak Ravid Axios
How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
Michael Reynolds Compact
Putin Is Still up to His Old Tricks — And Trump Knows It
Douglas Murray NY Post
A Ukraine Deal Is Still Possible
Heather Penatzer UnHerd
Ukraine Must Continue the Fight Against Corruption
Howard and Stradner RCW
Taiwan and the Limits of American Power
Leon Hadar Asia Times
China Is Enjoying Trump 2.0
Yun Sun Foreign Affairs
The New Pragmatism Reshaping Syria
Brett Erickson Newsweek
Get the Gazans Fed and Let Their Diaspora Begin in Earnest
David DesRosiers JNS
Ban Unity of Fields Before They Cause a Tragedy
Chloe Sparwath RealClearWorld
Will Central Asia Join the Abraham Accords?
Eldar Mamedov The National Interest
The Life of Afghanistan’s Forgotten Women
Nilofar Ayoubi The Hill
London Is in Trouble
Brendan O'Neill Spiked
Erik Prince Plans To Keep Personnel in Haiti for 10 Years
Reuters
Monday, August 18
The Two Superpowers Are Back in Business
Ramachandra Byrappa TEC
Why Trump Gets It Right on Ukraine Peace
Anatol Lieven Responsible Statecraft
Will Europe Rise to Its Strategic Moment?
Frederick Kempe Atlantic Council
Putin, Trump, and the Elusive “Peace”
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
No More Gifts to Vladimir Putin
The Guardian
EU's ‘Rule of Law’ in Poland Is Political
Anna Kubacka Brussels Signal
Romania Shows How State-Owned Companies Don’t Work
Connor Vasile RCW
Will America Abandon Israel?
Christopher Caldwell UnHerd
Ending the Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S. Experiment
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Courage.Media
China Looks to Energy To Anchor Gulf Ties
Jesse Marks ASPI Strategist
A Quiet Path to Peace in the South China Sea
Phar Kim Beng Asia Times
Has the Sun Finally Set on Françafrique?
Matthew Pheneger Geopolitical Monitor
Identity Crisis Grips France’s Far Right
Marion Solletty Politico EU
Trump’s AI Plan Is a Bulwark Against China
Sen. Cynthia Lummis Fox News
America's Bet on AI
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty


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