RealClearWorld Week of January 12, 2026 Archives

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Monday, January 12
The New Economic Cold War
Paul Hayden Miller The Hill
Why Greenland Matters
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
The World Order Is Becoming More Cutthroat
Hal Brands Bloomberg
‘Spheres of Influence’ Is a Good Thing
Leon Hadar The American Conservative
Trump's Naked Imperialism
Hayes Brown MS Now
History Supports Operation To Take Down Maduro
Barry Latzer The Federalist
Rising Protests Test Iran’s Regime
Zac Weisz GZero Media
Trump Corollary Takes On a Chinese Reality
Rubin and Vujica The National Interest
Is Cuba Next?
Robert Farley 19FortyFive
Europe’s Year of Existential Risk
Mujtaba Rahman Politico EU
The Armed Wing of the Green Deal
Jacob Reynolds Brussels Signal
The Middle East’s Top Challenges in 2026
Seth J. Frantzman The National Interest
South Korea Walks a Narrow Bridge
Daniel Sneider Asia Times
RCP Samizdat Prize Celebrates First Amendment Courage
David DesRosiers RCP


Tuesday, January 13
Iran’s Battered IRGC Faces Moment of Truth
Tom O'Connor Newsweek
A U.S. Strike Would Prop the Iranian Regime Up
Jamsheed Choksy & Carol Choksy FA
Khamenei Is Falling and Iran Is Rising
Erfan Fard Jerusalem Post
Is It Time for the U.S. to Intervene in Iran?
Hal Brands Bloomberg
One Big Downside of Trump’s Military Successes
James Antle American Conservative
Rivalry or Strategic Reset Between China & the U.S.?
James Durso Oil Price
Putin’s Great-Power Project Faces the ‘End of an Era’
Eva Hartog Politico EU
American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
John Kitch RealClearWorld
NATO Boss Shrugs Off Europe’s Greenland Fears
Melissa O'Rourke The Daily Caller
Europe Has Been Dropped From the World Order
Kevin Myers Brussels Signal
What Maduro’s Capture Means for Iran
Pelayo Fontenrose and Sennett Atlantic Council
Prosecuting Maduro
Paul Larkin Civitas Institute
The End of Green Energy
Joel Kotkin UnHerd
Canada’s China Gambit
Stephen Nagy Geopolitical Monitor
Why RealClear Is Honoring Graham Linehan
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


Wednesday, January 14
The Axis of Evil is Crumbling
Arthur Schaper American Greatness
The Trouble With Regime Change
Richard Haass Foreign Affairs
Is Iran Headed Towards a Persian Spring?
Gordon Gray National Security Journal
I Sincerely Wish This Were the Iranian 1989. It’s Not.
Niall Ferguson X
The Scariest Thing About Iran’s Crackdown
Cameron Peters Vox
Russia Watches As Ally Iran Edges Closer to Collapse
Holly Ellyatt CNBC
The Art of the Deal Arrives at Greenland
Vinocur and Barigazzi Politico EU
Europe’s Crisis of Self-Confidence
The Guardian
In a Multipolar World, Europe Must Become a Pole
Rafael P. Borges Brussels Signal
The Trump Doctrine
Seth Cropsey RealClearDefense
The U.S. Is Retreating to the Western Hemisphere
Antony Blinken CNBC
Megaphones in Minneapolis, Silence Over Iran
Kyle Moran RealClearWorld
Xi’s Taiwan Scorecard: Why 2026 Is Not the Year
Joe Keary ASPI Strategist
The Coming Fate of Middle Powers
Philip Cunliffe The Critic
America Can Shape Global Health Without the WHO
Bate & Schaefer RealClearWorld


Thursday, January 15
Embrace the Chaos
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
The United West Is Dead
Mark Leonard Politico EU
Trump Delivers 120 ‘Marshall Plans’ to the U.S.
William Murray The Federalist
Will Iran’s Protests Bring Down the Regime?
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Tehran Doubles Down on Repression
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Still in Power, the Dream of Islamic Republic Is Dead
David Blair The Telegraph
Three Forces Shaping Post-Revolutionary Iran
Can Kasapoglu The National Interest
Iran’s Future Requires Democratic Transition
Sofey Saidi RealClearWorld
How To Disarm China’s Weaponized Soybean Purchases
Peter Navarro The Hill
China May Not Be a Superpower
John West ASPI Strategist
Pax Silica — Can it Stop China?
Christopher Cytera CEPA
Trump’s Greenland Demands Don’t Allow for Diplomacy
Hayes Brown MS Now
Time to Find Out Who's Being Paid By Qatar
Roger Simon Substack
The Oxymoron of Dual Citizenship
Roger McGrath Chronicles
How Venezuela Turned Oil Wealth Into Economic Ruin
John P. Ruehl Asia Times


Friday, January 16
Iran Protests Abate After Deadly Crackdown
Reuters
50 Years of Democrats’ Bad Policy With Iran
Helen Raleigh The Federalist
Iran and the Limits of American Power
Andrew P. Miller Foreign Affairs
Exposing Our Enemies’ Weaknesses—and Our Own
Mike Watson WFB
The Real Trump Playbook on Iran
Andrew Latham 19FortyFive
The U.S. Doesn’t Need To Annex Greenland To Win in the Arctic
Luke Coffey RCW
Competitive Coexistence With Russia Isn’t Appeasement
Thomas Graham TNI
How Trump Could Hit Iran
Edward Luttwak UnHerd
How Venezuela Becomes a Quagmire
Meghan L. O'Sullivan Foreign Affairs
All the Global Benefits Trump Reaped by Grabbing Maduro
Martin Gurri NY Post
Rethinking Canada–South Korea Defense Cooperation
Jihoon Yu RealClearWorld
The Trade Deal Tearing Europe’s Biggest Party Apart
Javier Villamor TEC
The UK’s Free Speech Act is a Paper Tiger
Samiksha Bhattacharjee RealClearWorld
Human Rights Attorneys: Don't Let Iran Target US Dissidents
Susan Crabtree RCP
Africa’s Mineral Makeover
Charlie Campbell Time
Saturday, January 17
Trump’s Foreign Policy Gambits Are Reshaping the World
Bennett and Popli Time
The Death of U.S. Primacy Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Andrew Day TAC
U.S. Paralysis on Iran Owes to Navy Capacity Gaps
Julian McBride Asia Times
Iranian Supreme Leader Is Running Out of Road
Sune Engel Rasmussen WSJ
War, Diplomacy, or Revolt: What Comes Next in Iran?
Nadeen Ebrahim CNN
Maduro’s Capture Could Mean ‘Fall of Berlin Wall’ for Americas
Virginia Allen TDS
'Havana Syndrome' Shouldn't be a Pretext for Invasion
Robert Bartholomew RCW
Calling Time on Russia’s Endurance Myth
Jana Kobzova & Leo Litra ECFR
Canada’s Carney in China Sees a ‘New World Order’
Hawkins & Cecco The Guardian
Why Trump Is Good for Europe
Sebastian Milbank The Critic
Germany’s Assault on Press Freedom
Sabine Beppler-Spahl The European Conservative
Japan Aims To Be Indispensable to Trump
Alex Bristow ASPI Strategist
Can China Fix the Army’s Procurement Bottlenecks?
Liao & Arostegui WOTR
On Greenland, Trump Wants To Be Like Polk
Sam Fraser Responsible Statecraft
Why the Taliban Wants To Talk With the U.S.
James D. Durso The National Interest
Putting a Stake in Stakeholder Capitalism
Terrence Keeley RealClearWorld
Charlie Kirk Embodies the Samizdat Prize
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


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