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Week of December 9, 2019 Archives
RealClearWorld
Morning
Edition
Monday, December 9
No One Wins in a Deadlocked Democracy
Niall Ferguson
,
Times of London
How Remain Disunity Could Seal Brexit
Timothy Garton Ash
,
Guardian
Who Most Deserves the Job of Ruining Britain?
Tom Rachman
,
Globe and Mail
Rethinking NATO’s Deterrent Strategy
Melanie Sisson
,
War on the Rocks
A Double Whammy for China
Frank Ching
,
Yale Global
Vietnam Asserts Its Maritime Sovereignty
Huong Le Thu
,
Foreign Policy
Why Iran Has Erupted
Gabriel Powe
,
The Week
Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later
Keren Blankfeld
,
New York Times
How Do We Dig Out of the Hole We've Dug in the Middle East?
W. Burns
, The
Atlantic
The Gun Violence Epidemic Plaguing Arab-Israeli Society
Y. Schwartz
, NY
Books
Turkey Tests the Waters in the Eastern Mediterranean
Caroline Rose
,
Geopolitical Futures
Hong Kong Is Fast Becoming an Afterthought
Simon Cartledge
,
Bloomberg View
The 'Forgotten Emergency' in Haiti
Jacqueline Charles
,
Miami Herald
The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Air Force
David Axe
,
National Interest
As Parliamentary Elections Loom, Iran's Regime Is Shaken
Sanam Vakil
,
CH
Tuesday, December 10
What EU 'Geopolitical' Power Will Cost
Daniel Gros
,
Project Syndicate
NATO’s China Challenge
Frederick Kempe
,
Atlantic Council
Politics at the Heart of the Crisis in the Sahel
Judd Devermont
,
CSIS
The Arrogance of UK's Political Class Is Ever Less Justified
Jeremy Cliffe
,
NS
Are Latin American Democracies at Risk?
Eric Farnsworth
,
World Politics Review
Why did The Sun Publish a Far-Right Conspiracy Theory?
Daniel Trilling
,
Guardian
Only Two Possible Outcomes to Britain's Election
James Forsyth
,
The Sun
How the Brexit Election Was Reduced to Trivia
Steve Bloomfield
,
Foreign Affairs
India’s Economy Is Stalling. Critics Blame Fear.
Ravi Agrawal
&
Kathryn Salam
, FP
No One in India Is Living in Fear
G. Sampath
,
The Hindu
India Takes Step to Block Naturalization for Muslims
Suhasini Raj
,
New York Times
How the Energy World of Tomorrow Reshapes Geopolitics
Antonia Colibasanu
, RC
W
Putin Wants Ukraine to Boil Over
Andreas Umland
,
Kyiv Post
Kashmir Crisis Calls for U.S. Engagement
Chris Shays
&
George Hochbrueckner
,
RCW
Wednesday, December 11
How The NATO Summit Looked In Russia
P. Tarasenko
&
S. Strokanj
,
Worldcrunch
Afghanistan Shows Our Inability to Be Shocked
Ross Douthat
,
New York Times
A Deal With the Taliban May Be Inevitable
Christoph Reuter
,
Der Spiegel
The Future of ‘Saskberta’
Jason Markusoff
,
Maclean's
Argentina's New President Keeps the Worst Company
A. Oppenheimer
,
Miami Herald
Another Reckoning Coming for Buenos Aires
Stratfor Worldview
What a Corbyn Government Could Mean for the Middle East
Tim Springett
,
ECFR
What I Learned About Hope When I Met Nelson Mandela
Jim Mitchell
,
Dallas News
The Rape of India’s Soul
Jayati Ghosh
,
Project Syndicate
5 Infuriating Takeaways From 'Afghanistan Papers'
Barbara Boland
,
Amer. Cons.
The Great American Food Aid Boondoggle
Katrin Park
,
Foreign Policy
Bougainville Voters Back Independence in a Landslide
AFP
Jeremy Corbyn and England's Persistent Anti-Semitism
Ashley Rindsberg
,
ToI
2019 Was Bad for Irish Politics. At Least We're Not the UK.
Ian O'Doherty
,
Irish Ind.
Thursday, December 12
U.S. Bets Old Ideas in a New Package Can Deter China
Hal Brands
,
Bloomberg View
5 Small Wins in the USMCA
Jeff Spross
,
The Week
Don't Let START Stop
J. Collins
,
D. Mathews
,
V. Naumkin
&
Y. Shafranik
,
Russia Matters
Ending America's Endless War in Afghanistan
Joseph Votel
,
New York Times
Secularism Is Dying in India
Sumit Ganguly
,
Foreign Policy
Will Protests Beat Back Macron's Reform Plans?
Judah Grunstein
, WP
Review
Never Mind the Strikes, Here's the French Pension Reform
Rym Montaz
,
Politico EU
Can Uzbekistan Complete Its Transition?
Kate Mallinson
,
Chatham House
Electing These Tories Would Usher In a Dark Age
John McDonnell
,
Guardian
Britain's Wealth Creators Running Terrified From Baleful Labour
A. Brummer
, DM
14 ‘Portillo Moments’ to Look Out for on Election Night
John Connolly
,
Spectator
A Tory Rebel's Last Stand
Harry Lambert
,
New Statesman
Tactical Voting and Anti-Brexit Forces
Elliot Chappell
,
Labour List
Brexiteers Can't Afford a Tactical Vote
Lord Ashcroft
,
Conservative Home
Parsing the Possible Results of Britain's Vote
Oliver Wright
,
Times of London
Why Welsh Nationalism Has Stagnated
Helen Lewis
,
The Atlantic
Friday, December 13
What Will Boris Johnson's Majority Mean for Brexit?
Anand Menon
,
Guardian
Johnson’s Smashing Win Heralds a New Toryism
James Forsyth
,
Spectator
How Britain Voted and Why
Lord Ashcroft
,
Conservative Home
American Leftists Can Wake Up From the Corbyn Dream Now
J. Chait
,
NY Mag
The Decade Populism Went Mainstream
Matt Welch
,
Reason
How Russia Fools Generations of Naive Foreigners
Anne Applebaum
,
The Atlantic
Hong Kong Protests Could Spark Stronger U.S.-China Accord
James Stavridis
,
BV
3 Key Changes in the New NAFTA
Amanda Countryman
,
The Conversation
Why Mongolian Democracy Is Worth Defending
Ellen Bork
,
The American Interest
In Cambodia, ‘Rule of Law’ Means Hun Sen Rules
Charles Dunst
,
Foreign Policy
Why China Is Weaning Itself Off American Technology
Benjamin Wilhelm
,
WPR
Trump Is Getting Played by China on Trade
Josh Rogin
,
Washington Post
Understanding Iran’s Nuclear Escalation Strategy
E. Brewer
&
A. Tabatabai
,
WOTR
The Neosocialist Delusion
Jerry Muller
,
Foreign Affairs
The Conservatives Finally Waved Farewell to Thatcher's Ghost
Paul Goodman
,
CH
Boris Is Now the Master of Britain's Political Scene
Martin Kettle
,
Guardian
Lessons From the Afghanistan Papers
James Carroll
,
New Yorker
Obstacle to Iran's Ambitions Will Come From the Arab People
C. Coughlin
,
National
Turkey’s Erdogan Weighs Entering Fight in Libya
Moscow Times
Saturday, December 14
How Labour Lost the Culture War
Yascha Mounk
,
The Atlantic
The UK Election Should Serve as a Warning to Democrats
Alex Berezow
,
National Interest
Labour Must Ditch the Politics of the Sect
Jonathan Freedland
,
Guardian
The ‘Red Wall’ Has Fallen
Brendan O'Neill
,
Spectator
Unlike in Ukraine, Trump in China Takes U.S. Interests Into Account
J. Healey
,
LAT
We've Got a Trade Truce, Sort Of. Now What?
Mark Gongloff
,
Bloomberg View
Nationalisms Won Throughout Britain
Sam Knight
,
New Yorker