RealClearWorld Week of June 29, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 29
Europe Goes Its Own Way
Marina Henke Iren Marinova and Till Knobloch Foreign Affairs
Unease Deepens in Russia
Catherine Belton and Natalia Abbakumova Washington Post
Ukraine's Strikes in Russia Isn't Enough
Andrew Latham National Security Journal
Crimea Will Decide the Ukraine War
Bethany Elliott UnHerd
Zelensky Should Learn From Netanyahu’s Mistakes
Dov Zakheim The Hill
UAE's Tightrope Between Jerusalem and Tehran
Nava Freiberg Times of Israel
Riyadh is the Diplomatic Center in the Middle East
Albert Wolf 19FortyFive
Iran’s Hormuz Toll Gambit Is Doomed To Fail
Jennifer Parker Asia Times
Israel Needs To Go Back to the Future
Eran Ortal Newsweek
Does Britain’s Next PM Believe in Anything?
Joshi Herrmann The Free Press
Ireland Takes Over EU Presidency
Jacopo Barigazzi and Antoaneta Roussi Politico EU
European Elites Look As Unserious as Ever
Philip Pilkington The American Conservative
2028 Democrats' Canada Primary
Adam Wren and Nick Taylor-Vaisey Politico
Are Europeans Embracing AC?
Frank Andrews CBS News
Myanmar, Frontline in India-China Rivalry
Vijay Kumar Dhar Geopolitical Monitor


Tuesday, June 30
Poland Is Hedging Its Bets on the U.S.
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Trump's Smart Iran Exit
Jon Alterman Times of India
How the Democrats Betrayed the Legacy of FDR
James W. Carden The Realist Review
The Long Tail of Finlandization
Pekka Virkki CEPA
Iran Is Jealously Competing With Oman
Patrick Wintour The Guardian
Oil Transit Is Rebounding — but Fresh Hurdles Arrive
Ben Geman Axios
Four Ways the Gulf Makes Iran’s Hormuz Toll Backfire
Muhanad Seloom Newsweek
Venezuela’s Opportunity for Democracy Won’t Last
Christopher Le Mon RCW
Why Burnhamomics Will Fail
Wolfgang Munchau UnHerd
Labour Should Look to Germany on Welfare Reforms
Roger Bootle The Telegraph
Pakistan Has Never Looked So Important
Rashmee Roshan Lall Persuasion
China Escalates Takaichi Feud
Nectar Gan Bloomberg
Iraq’s Push for Bigger OPEC Quota
Ahmed Rasheed and Sarah El Safty Reuters
Three Things the U.S. Can Do to Save the Sahel
Robert Dussey The National Interest
The Fertility Crash Will Make the World a Small Town
Tyler Cowen The Free Press


Wednesday, July 1
Responsible Citizens, Rising
Terrence Keeley RealClearPolitics
Hormuz Drives a Wedge Into U.S.-Saudi Relations
Gramer Holliday & Said WSJ
The Korean War Lessons for a U.S.-Iran Ceasefire
Harlan Ullman The Hill
Pakistan and New Geometry of Connectivity
Sara Nazir RealClearWorld
Israel’s Opportunity in the Gulf
Or Horvitz Jerusalem Post
How China Can Suddenly Outflank the Island Chain
Paula Allen ASPI Strategist
China’s Currency Stance Could Cost It Lost Decades
Francesco Sisci Asia Times
Why Britons Really Regret Brexit
Niall Ferguson Substack
The Race to Be the Next UK Chancellor
Iain Macwhirter The American Conservative
Why Ukraine Is Key for Europe’s New Strategic Reality
Matteo Mecacci TNI
Bloody Past Is Reshaping Politics in Poland and Ukraine
Wojciech Kość Politico EU
Geopolitics Erodes Armenia's Democracy
Stephan Pechdimaldji RealClearWorld
The Right Returns to Colombia
Joseph Addington The American Conservative
By the Sword: America Was Born Intervening
Monica Duffy Toft Responsible Statecraft
America Is Still an English Country
Christopher Caldwell Spectator


Thursday, July 2
The Iran MOU Is a Mess. It Still Might Work
Brett H. McGurk CNN
Washington Cannot Secure Hormuz by Ignoring Iran
Greg Pence Geo. Monitor
Who Is Actually Ruling Iran Right Now?
Joshua Keating Vox
Huckabee: U.S. Won't Trust Iran Without Real Change
Amichai Stein Jerusalem Post
America’s Hard Left and Right Have Had It With Israel
Jack Hunter TAC
The Perils of a DSA Foreign Policy
Daniel J. Samet The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune
Putting Power Into the War Powers Act
William A. Owens and Barry W. Poulson RCW
The First Real Crack in Putin’s Armor
Harrison Kass National Security Journal
Massive Russian Strikes Pound Ukraine’s Capital
Stephen Kalin Wall Street Journal
Why Trump’s Congo Deal Is Falling Apart
Joshua Z. Walkeret al. Foreign Affairs
A New Dawn for America-Africa Trade
Elsie Sia Kanza RealClearWorld
Burnham’s Buy British Plan Could Kill His EU Dreams
Ben Ramanauskas CapX
Canada Needs an ‘Arctic Fortress’ Strategy
Spencer-Churchill and Floreani TN(
The U.S. Has Become the British Empire
David C. Hendrickson Responsible Statecraft
Soccer Fans Sent a Message to Washington on Iran
Lisa Daftari New York Post


Friday, July 3
What Thucydides Really Thought About Power
Jonathan Kirshner Foreign Affairs
America Does Not Know Its Own Mind
Charles A. Kupchan Responsible Statecraft
How America’s Founding Inspires Its Strategy
Daniel Fried Atlantic Council
At 250, American Pride Becomes More Partisan
Jonathan Draeger RealClearPolitics
What Britain Taught Us
Daniel McCarthy Spectator
‘NATO 3.0’ Needs More Manpower
Alex Wagner and Kristen Taylor The National Interest
Putin is Running Out of Friends
Frida Ghitis Substack
A Taiwan Crisis Is Coming
Hal Brands Bloomberg
China’s Energy Strategy Exposed
Alexander B. Gray Washington Examiner
The Same Old Sick Iranian Regime Is Still in Charge
New York Post
How Each Side Could Muff the Peace Deal
Jude Russo The American Conservative
Air Power Alone Can't Win Wars
James Holmes 19FortyFive
A Realist Reading of the Israel-Turkey Rupture
Leon Hadar Asia Times
What 'Created Equal' Really Means
David DesRosiers Modern Age
The Brutal Excommunication of the Society of Saint Pius X
Jane Stannus Spectator
Latin America Shifts Rightward
Helena Carpio Washington Post



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