RealClearWorld Week of February 9, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 9
Age of Takaichi Dawns With a Supermajority in Japan
Tobias Harris Asia Times
Japan Is Leaving Its Pacifist Era Behind
Noah Smith Substack
Japan: An Island of Pragmatism in a Sea of Drama
Alina Polyakova CEPA
Beijing’s Growth Model Is Still Broken
Dinny McMahon Foreign Affairs
How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience
Javier Benegas TEC
Europe’s Big Week of Crisis Diplomacy
Sebastian Starcevic Politico EU
Welcome to a Global Nuclear Arms Dilemma
Daniel R. DePetris Newsweek
UN Chief: Global Economy Must Move Past GDP
Matthew Taylor The Guardian
Takeaways From Trump’s National Defense Strategy
James Holmes National Interest
Europe Needs an Army
Max Bergmann Foreign Affairs
IDF and Hamas Dig In
Stav Levaton Times of Israel
Iraq Faces Renewed Security Concerns
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post
Why Russia Survived After Syria Regime Change
Anna Matveeva Res. Statecraft
The Case for a Realist Georgia Policy
Darren G. Spinck The American Conservative
Africa: Next Frontline in the Global Drug Trade?
Cherkaoui Roudani Geo. Monitor


Tuesday, February 10
Fatal Problems in the New U.S. Approach to China
Hal Brands Bloomberg
How to Strengthen Transatlantic Relations
Paul McCarthy The National Interest
Factional Struggles and the Making of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Majda Ruge ECFR
A Japanese Lesson for Troubled Britain
Daniel McCarthy Chronicles
Jimmy Lai’s Sentencing & China’s Worthless Word
New York Post
China Moving Early As Confidence in U.S. Debt Frays
Nigel Green Asia Times
Chinese & Russian Decline Could Become Global Problems
Harlan Ullman The Hill
China’s Smart Authoritarianism
Jennifer Lind Foreign Affairs
Understanding the Opposition to the Islamic Republic
Fariba Parsa RealClearWorld
Deterrence Won’t Fail in Taiwan — It Will Be Bypassed
J. William DeMarco WOTR
Russia Targets Ukraine's Civilian Power Grid
Mitzi Perdue RealClearWorld
Time for a Brexit Reckoning
Dalibor Rohac Politico EU
Why Keir Starmer Is a Political Failure
Nick Cohen Spectator
How the U.S. Oil Blockade Is Impacting Cuba
Philip Wang Time
Socialism’s Rise Is Really a Gift to America
John Tillman Washington Examiner


Wednesday, February 11
What Happened to the Anglosphere?
Arthur Herman Civitas Outlook
Trump Pumps Up the Populist-Right Vote
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
Zelensky Plans Elections and Peace Deal Referendum
Lily Shanagher The Telegraph
Western Europe in a Multipolar World
Helena Miller RealClearWorld
Growing Cracks in the BRICS+ Wall
Burak Elmali Asia Times
The China Collapse That Wasn’t
Brandon J. Weichert The American Conservative
Jimmy Lai and the Price of Telling the Truth
Melinda Henneberger RealClearPolitics
Iran Faces Multiple Pressures on Its Anniversary
Jon Gambrell The Independent
Israel’s West Bank Plans Prompt Global Backlash
Julian Borger The Guardian
Hamas and Fatah: Different Paths, Same Destination
Sagiv Steinberg Jerusalem Post
The UK Chagos Deal Is an ‘Act of Great Stupidity’
Andrew Hale The Hill
Baku’s Distancing From Moscow
Paul Goble Eurasia Daily Monitor
VP Vance’s Timely TRIPP to the South Caucasus
Artin DerSimonian Res. Statecraft
Crunch Time for Rebuilding U.S. Shipbuilding
Michael Roberts The National Interest
Philanthropy's $1.6 Trillion Suicide Pact
Andrew King RealClearWorld


Thursday, February 12
America and China at the Edge of Ruin
David M. Lampton and Wang Jisi Foreign Affairs
Trump Keeps the World Guessing
Martin Gurri New York Post
China’s Tactical Step Back
Joe Keary ASPI Strategist
China’s Demographic Crisis: From Theory to Fact
Ronny P. Sasmita Asia Times
U.S. Cannot Go Wobbly on Chagos
Daniel Kochis RealClearWorld
Sanae Takaichi Has the Power To Change Japan
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
The Collapse of Iran’s Islamic Regime
Julian Spencer-Churchill RealClearDefense
The Dangers of Maximalist Demands to Iran
Omar H. Rahman The National Interest
Rutte’s Trump-Whispering Is Counterproductive
Leonard A. Schütte War on the Rocks
Europe’s Unbreakable Dependency on American AI
Gabriel Elefteriu Brussels Signal
The House’s Canada Tariff Vote Sent a Message to Trump
Marc Wheat MS Now
Kazakhstan Embraces Connectivity with the South Caucasus
Emil Avdaliani EDM
What’s Next for Jimmy Lai?
Nina Shea RealClearPolitics
Mapping Overseas United Front Work in Democratic States
Cheryl Yu China Brief
Venezuela Post-Maduro
Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros Civitas Outlook


Friday, February 13
The U.S. Military Can’t Build a Military Anymore
Kris Osborn 19FortyFive
Xi Jinping Is Losing Control of China’s Military
Gordon G. Chang Newsweek
Who Would Win a Ukraine Election?
Jennifer Mathers Asia Times
Putin Should Worry About the Trump-Xi Relationship
M. Khodorkovsky Politico EU
Plan To Stop China From Starving U.S. Military
Victoria Coates Fox News
Iran’s Crackdown Is Now Targeting Its Own Politicians
Stancati & Faucon WSJ
War With Iran Could Be a Deadly Miscalculation
Rosemary Kelanic The Hill
Iran’s Divided Opposition
Sanam Vakil and Alex Vatanka Foreign Affairs
Iran Is Building a Digital Cage It Can’t Afford
Calla O'Neil 19FortyFive
Gaza’s New Power Struggle
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post
The Japanese Love Their PM. This Is Huge
Quico Toro Persuasion
Cuba’s Energy Crisis Deepens
Charles Kennedy Oil Price
The U.S.’s Delcy Rodriguez Dilemma
Samuel Ben-Ur The National Interest
Donald Trump's New Hemispheric Policy
Wagner Menezes Civitas Outlook
Egypt Tests Trump’s Pledge to Defend Christians
Mariam Wahba Newsweek
Saturday, February 14
We Live in a New Era in Geopolitics
Secretary Marco Rubio
U.S. Preparing for Weeks-Long Iran Operations
Phil Stewart & Idrees Ali Reuters
Trump Could Make a Historic Iran Mistake
Harrison Kass National Security Journal
Why ‘America First’ Must Address the IRGC
Zvika Klein Jerusalem Post
A Final 'Dear John' to Eileen Gu
Andrew King RealClearWorld
5 Steps To Get Ukraine Into the EU in 2027
Zoya Sheftalovich Politico EU
Roadblocks on Europe’s Path to Defense Independence
Jason Davidson TNI
Kremlin Shivers as U.S. Enters the South Caucasus
Emil Avdaliani CEPA
Why Are So Few World Leaders Popular?
John Halpin The Liberal Patriot
Japan’s Iron Lady Won’t Go Wobbly Against China
Mike Watson WFB
Russia Struggling to Resist PRC Rare Earth Dominance
Anna J. Davis EDM
The Twilight Days of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Robert Ellis The National Interest
Cuba Is Approaching Its Berlin Wall Moment
Carlos Giménez Fox News
The Limits of Trump’s Democracy Agenda
Anne Dias RealClearWorld
Somalia Is Emerging as a New Nexus of Global Terrorism
Joshua Keating Vox
Al Jazeera Centre for Studies: Normalizing Terrorism
Dershowitz & Fischberger FDD
Samizdat Prize Is a Defense of Free-Speech Courage
David DesRosiers RCP


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