Real Clear World Thursday

Obama Has No Foreign Policy - Paul Ryan, National Interest
The End of the Middle East? - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
The World Needs a True Counterweight to U.S. - S. Milne, The Guardian
Whose Side Is Turkey On? - Patrick Cockburn, London Review of Books
Russia's Horrible Historians - Simon Shuster, Time
Tunisia's Carthaginian Summer - Austin Bay, Creators Syndicate
Berlin's Comfort Food Makes a Comeback - C. Nauhaus & M. Elfering, Ozy
Embryonic Democracy in Northern Syria - K. Zurutuza, Inter Press Service
Vietnam Looks to India for Military Modernization - S. Haidar, The Hindu
The French Far Right's War on Kebabs - Abigail Tracy, Vocativ
NATO's Land-Sea Disconnect - Ian Ralby, War on the Rocks
Saudis' Quest for Hollywood Movies - Rym Ghazal, The National
Jokowi Can Do What Obama Didn't - David Pilling, Financial Times
Egypt Levels Homes for Buffer Zone - Kareem Fahim & Merna Thomas, NYT
China Seeks a Space Program to Propel Prestige - Dean Cheng, CPI
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Editorials

The Universal Duty to Defeat Extremism - The National
Official Ebola Response Shouldn't Be Rooted in Hysteria - Boston Globe
Obama's Ebola Czar Has Gone AWOL - Washington Times
Now Tunisia Needs an Economic Revolution - Bloomberg

Research & Analysis

Finding a New Approach to China - Hoover Institution
An Overview of U.S. Trade Ties to Asia - Heritage Foundation
Inside the Sunni-Shia Divide - Council on Foreign Relations
Proof NATO Nukes in Europe Are Useless - Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Real Clear World Wednesday

Morning Update
Netanyahu and Obama in Open Conflict - David Horovitz, Times of Israel
Turkey's Contempt for NATO Principles - Seth Cropsey, RealClearWorld
Washington's Wishful Thinking in the Middle East - David Ignatius, WaPo
U.S. Presidents Caught in History's Sweep - George Friedman, Stratfor
Unstoppable ISIS Has Been Stopped - Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Baltic States Study how to Beat Russian Tanks - Robert Beckhusen, WIB
China Tightens the Screws on Taipei - J. Michael Cole, The Diplomat
Vietnam and ISIS - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Russia, China Cooperate on Cyber Security - Chernenko et al, Worldcrunch
The Pope Who Isn't a Creationist - Barbie Latza Nadeau, Daily Beast
Tunisia, the Model Middle East State - Mustafa Akyol, Hurriyet Daily News
Cyber Security Can Boost India-U.S. Ties - Lisa Curtis, RealClearWorld
The Case for Covert Action Against IS - Andre Le Gallo, Jerusalem Post
Stop the Spin: Afghanistan War Was Tragic - Kate Hudson, Independent
Calming Catalonia's Secessionist Fever - Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg
Has North Korea Quarantined Itself? - Hamish Macdonald, NK News

Afternoon Update
Australian Troops Await Visas to Fight ISIS - Hartcher & Wroe, SMH
Interview with an ISIS Recruiter - Hasnain Kazim, Der Spiegel
Obama Caused the US-Israel Strain - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Can the US-Israel Relationship Be Repaired? - Jacob Heilbrunn, NI
A Look at the Roots of HK's Protests - Keri Phillips, ABC Australia
Echoes of Patty Hearst in Kobani - Robert Mackey, New York Times
America Still Has the Will to Lead - Stephen Hadley, SMH
7 Things to Know About the Ukrainian Crisis - Steven Pifer, American Interest
Most Arab States Share the Same Goal with ISIS - Brian Whitaker, Guardian
Working Towards Stability and Security in Asia - Michael Auslin, AEIdeas
North Africa Warily Eyes Falling Oil Prices - Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
How True Are NK Defector Stories? - John Power, The Diplomat

Real Clear World Tuesday

Morning Update
U.S., Japan Missing a Chance to Counter China - P. Leaf, RealClearWorld
Meddling with Europe's Blood-Soaked Borders - G. Rachman, Guardian
Where Americans Turned the Tides of War - R. Rubin, New York Times
Hope for Hong Kong - Chris Patten, Project Syndicate
Putin Gambles that the U.S. Can Be Fenced In - Nikolas Gvosdev, TNI
Rethinking Taiwan's Submarine Dreams - Evan Braden Montgomery, RCD
Remembering Mao, the Great Manipulator - Robert Wargas, PJ Media
The Rout of Ukraine's pro-Russia Parties - Simon Shuster, Time
Erasing Indonesia's Linguistic Heritage - Setiono Sugiharto, Jakarta Post
Terms of Reconstruction Make a Prison of Gaza - J. Cook, The National
Thankfully, Iran Talks Seem Stalled - Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Israel's Soldier Suicides - Creede Newton, Daily Beast
Hitting Iran's Centrifuge Sweet Spot - Ariane Tabatabai, BAS
China's Plan to Protect Whistleblowers - BBC
UKIP Weakens EU's Emissions Ambitions - Nick Cunningham, Oil Price
Ebola: A Product of the Global Economy - Henrietta Moore, The Guardian

Afternoon Update
Security Council's Credibility Test - Gareth Evans, Project Syndicate
Ukraine Strengthens Shift Toward Europe - Bernd Johann, DW
Russia Has No Plan for the Future - Georgy Bovt, Moscow Times
Iran, China Deepen 'Blue Water' Friendship - Brian Murphy, WaPo
Tunisia's Costly Battle Against Militants - Tom Stevenson, Al Monitor
After Bitter Race, Brazilians Call for Unity - Dom Phillips, Time
Human Population Control Won't Fix Planet - Matt McGrath, BBC
Heroin Syringes Serve as Currency in Myanmar - Patrick Winn, GP

Real Clear World Monday

Morning Update
Kiev Is Now Pointed Directly West - Matt Schiavenza, Atlantic Monthly
Tunisia Boldly Embraces Democracy - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Election Shows Deep Splits in Brazil - Economist
The Appeal of a Caliphate - Edward Stourton, BBC
UKIP Torches Real Britishness - Will Hutton, The Guardian
Ukraine's Parliament Will Resist Putin - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
A Tale of Two Vietnamese Cities - Elisabeth Rosen, The Diplomat
What Kobani Means, and What It Doesn't - Mark Thompson, Time
What to Expect Now from Brazil - Kevin Lees, Suffragio
Russia Needs Time to Change - Pyotr Romanov, Moscow Times
This German Village Scrapped Russian Gas for Manure - AFP
Treason Charges for IS Acolytes Could Backfire - C. Randall, The National
There Should Be a U.S. Base in Kurdistan - J. Foreman, Weekly Standard
The Arab World Needs Israel's Help - Jake Wallis Simons, Jerusalem Post
U.S., Britain Abandon a Taliban Stronghold - Colum Lynch, FP

Afternoon Update
The Neocon Spring - Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
Obama's Team of Bumblers - Michael Hirsh, Politico
History's Path to American Exceptionalism - D. Bromwich, TomDispatch
Rousseff Must Fight the Second-Term Blues - J.N. Singh, The Conversation
A New Era of Disorder - Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
Will U.S. Military Return to the Philippines? - Jason Strother, Worldcrunch
The Islamic State's Child Soldiers - Kate Brannen, Foreign Policy
China's not Making Your Shirt Anymore - Nathan Siegel, Ozy
Can Ukraine's Political Class Grow Up? - Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Real Clear World Sunday

Morning Update
Keep Calm and Carry On, Canada - Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
China's Rise May not Be so Peaceful - John Mearsheimer, National Interest
Brazilian Left Will Remain Powerful After Vote - Daniel Lemaitre, GRI
Many Ukrainian Soldiers Can't Vote - Oksana Grytsenko, Kyiv Post
Cutting off ISIS Funding Isn't Easy - Charles Lister, Brookings
Will North Korea Ever Use Nukes? - Rob York, NK News
Tunisia's Ruling Party Steps Away from Salafists - Jahd Kalil, Al-Monitor
Poking Fun at UKIP on Twitter - Lizzie Dearden, The Independent
Israel's Poor Policy Invites Another Intifada - Hussein Ibish, The National
The Eco Train to Middle East Peace - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
China and Luxembourg's Trip to the Moon - Matthew Francis, Daily Beast
The Last Days of Uruguay's Rebel Presidency - BBC
Repairing South Korea's Tarnished Image - Luke Stanhope, The Diplomat
New Rules for China's War on Terror - Kendrick Kuo, East Asia Forum

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