RealClearWorld Week of April 13, 2026 Archives

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Monday, April 13
War and the Principles of the Negotiation
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
Of Course These Peace Talks Would Fail
Irwin Stelzer Spectator
Iran’s Next Move Decides Everything
Kris Osborn 19FortyFive
Tehran Needs Positive Incentives, Not Just Pressure
Mogherini & Shah FA
Playing the Trump card vs. Tehran
Miranda Devine New York Post
Is Trump’s New Blockade 3D Chess or Grasping at Straws?
Seth Frantzman JPost
Wars Make or Break Presidencies
Francis P. Sempa RealClearDefense
How to Stabilize U.S.-China Relations
Lyle Goldstein RealClearWorld
China’s Organ Harvesting Industry
Jan Jekielek RealClearInvestigations
Orbán Just Lost His Populist Touch
Jamie Dettmer Politico EU
What Actually Happened in Hungary
Henry Olsen Brussels Signal
Ukraine’s Africa Campaign
Michael Albanese CEPA
Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ Makes Mockery of UK Naval Power
Ian Proud RS
Delcy Settles In
Joseph Addington The American Conservative
Five Emerging Themes for the Indo-Pacific
Bill Emmott Asia Times


Tuesday, April 14
The Iran War Has Finally Shattered America’s World
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Trump Puts Iran’s Military on the Ropes
Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet New York Post
A Test of Wills in Iran
Nate Swanson Foreign Affairs
Islamabad Became Reykjavík 2.0
Hugh Hewitt Fox News
The Man Vance Met in Islamabad
Eldar Mamedov The American Conservative
The Hormuz Blockade Won’t Hurt China
Doug Stokes Spectator
No Neat and Clean Return for Asian Economies
Stephanie Yang CNN
Sea of Azov: Ukraine’s Loss but Hardly Russia’s Gain
Mansur Mirovalev Aljazeera
Teaching British Kids Which Way To Vote
Steven Tucker The American Conservative
Former NATO Chief: UK’s National Security ‘In Peril’
Farley & Zeffma BBC News
The ‘Special Relationship’ May Not Be So Special Anymore
Harlan Ullman The Hill
A Packed Agenda for Péter Magyar
Ferenc Németh CEPA
Hungarians Tired of Orban, Not His Policies
The Telegraph
How the Elites Govern by ‘Emergency Powers’
Miguel Nunes Silva Brussels Signal
Israel-Lebanon Talks & the Hezbollah Dilemma
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post


Wednesday, April 15
Hormuz Might Be Iran’s Achilles’ Heel, Not Its Secret Weapon
Miad Maleki FA
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place
Andrew Michta 19FortyFive
Sorry, but America Still Holds All the Cards
Roger Kimball Spectator
Will I Ever Escape the Strait of Hormuz?
Anonymous Seafarer UnHerd
Oman Walks Tightrope With Iran
Giorgio Cafiero Responsible Statecraft
Saudi Arabia Is Winning Gulf War III
David Rundell The Telegraph
China Faces Trump’s Iran Offensive
Daniel Williams Asia Times
Why Indonesia Matters to the U.S.-China Rivalry
James Thorne X
Japan and the Quest for Its New Normal
Gilbert Rozman FPRI
Israel-Lebanon Talks Unlikely To Yield Much Until Iran Changes
Lazar Berman TOI
Fear of Populism Limits EU Expansion
Vinocur Gavin and Starcevic Politico EU
Has Far-Right Populism Peaked in Europe?
Tasha Kheiriddin GZero Media
Western Nationalism Is Not Dead Yet
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
Politics of Denying a Pardon for Netanyahu
Ben-Shemesh & Kontorovich RCW
Invoking 25th Amendment Would Be Unconstitutional
Alan Dershowitz RCPolicy


Thursday, April 16
The Return of History in Southwest Asia
Ibrahim Al-Marashi Law & Liberty
Iran Confirmed, Contradicted, and Complicated U.S. Policy
Ewers & Tabatabai CFR
Iran's Shattered Economy Means It Needs to Negotiate
Sune Engel Rasmussen WSJ
Iran: A Longer View
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness
How the Iran War Made China Stronger
Ian Bremmer GZero Media
Japan Leaves WWII Ghosts Behind
Grant Newsham Asia Times
Some Europeans Are Aligning With Russia and Iran Over U.S.
Sierra Knoch The Hill
The “Axis of Resistance” After the Iran War
Hamidreza Azizi Foreign Affairs
Viktor Orbán’s Loss Matters Far Beyond Hungary
Michael McFaul MS Now
Viktor Orbán Lost the Election but He Won the Argument
Paul McCarthy RCW
Who’s the EU’s Next Disruptor-in-Chief?
Sebastian Starcevic Politico EU
Germany's Censorship, 2026 Style
John Rosenthal American Mind
Winds of Change in Latin America
Sean Durns Washington Examiner
Does Mark Carney Believe in Democracy?
Jane Stannus Spectator
Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ Needs the SHIPS Act
Robert C. O'Brien The National Interest


Friday, April 17
Who’s Actually Winning the Wars in the Middle East?
Charles Lipson Spectator
America and Iran’s Long Road to Peace
Seyed Hossein Mousavian Foreign Affairs
Trump, Iran and the Bottom Line for American Interests
Ned Ryun RealClearPolitics
So Much for the ‘Pivot to Asia’
Anik Joshi The American Conservative
Trump Bets Economic Pain Will Force Iran To Comply
Georgi Kantchev WSJ
Trump Is Waging One Big War Against the Rest of the World
Jonathan Guyer TNR
The Return of the Echo Chamber
Lee Smith Tablet
Pakistan’s Army Chief Takes Spotlight
Dan Strumpf and Tooba Khan Bloomberg
Baghdad Is Ready for a New Chapter With DC
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani Newsweek
South Korea–Romania Industrial Cooperation
Alex Serban and Jihoon Yu RCW
Populism Is Nothing Without Sovereignty
Jacob Reynolds Brussels Signal
Farage Throws a Wildcard Into Scotland’s Elections
Andrew McDonald Politico EU
German Establishment Plan To Prevent True Democracy
Sabine Beppler-Spahl TEC
The Political Risk of Alberta Separatism
Sam Williams Geopolitical Monitor
100 Former Lawmakers Became Foreign Lobbyists
Cleveland-Stout & Freeman RS
Saturday, April 18
Iran Says It Has Closed the Strait of Hormuz Again
Susannah George WashPost
Don’t Let Iran Weasel Out of Its Complete Surrender
New York Post
Trumpian Geoeconomics and Pivot to Asia
Francis Sempa American Spectator
China’s Aid to Iran Exposes Axis of Autocracies
Washington Examiner
A Tense Tone for Trump-Xi Meeting
Tom Harper Asia Times
China Has Already Crossed Trump’s Red Line
Matt Cookson RealClearWorld
Inside the Historic U.S.-Cuba Negotiations in Havana
Marc Caputo Axios
Russia’s Nationalists Are Falling out of Love With Putin
Mark Galeotti Spectator
Four Principles for an EU-Hungary Reset
Jeremy Cliffe ECFR
A Post-Orbán Europe, and a Chance for U.S. Restraint
Victoria-Katharina Flick RCW
Netanyahu: ‘Road to Peace’ With Lebanon Begins
Lazar Berman et al. Times of Israel
No More U.S. Military Aid to Israel
Bernie Sanders The Guardian
250 Years of a U.S. Foreign Policy of Ideas
Michael Mandelbaum The National Interest
Four key points about China's 15th Five-Year Plan
Grünberg & Davey MERICS
Azerbaijan Manages Crisis Amid Iran Conflict
Yunis Gurbanov Eurasia Daily Monitor
Monday, April 20
U.S. Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship
Gemma Fox Nik Popli and Miranda Jeyaretnam Time
Why “Mowing the Grass” Won’t Work in Iran
Mona Yacoubian CSIS
Can the U.S. and Iran Agree to a Lasting Deal?
Patrick Sykes Bloomberg
Iran Mocks EU Calls To Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Gregorio Sorgi Politico EU
How Beijing Armed, Funded, and Enabled Iran
Lisa Daftari New York Post
China’s Industrial Policy Has Big Flaws
Noah Smith Substack
In Empire We Trust
Steve Fraser Tom Dispatch
Israel’s Independence Day Reflection
Benyamin Yakovian Jerusalem Post
Japan, Australia and a New Regional Order
George Friedman Geopolitical Futures
What Is the Supply Side of Britain and Europe’s Decline?
Blake Neff Spectator
Ireland in Crisis: A Warning to Europe
Eanna Mackey CEPA
Russia After Putin
Philip Wasielewski Foreign Policy Research Institute
Post-Orban, EU Poses a Greater Threat to U.S. Sovereignty
Jonathan Turley The Hill
How Venezuela Is Quietly Shifting to Democracy
Burrell and Harkins TNI
The Politicization of Science
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RealClearInvestigations



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