Real Clear World Thursday

Russia's Coming Offensive in Ukraine - Adrian Karatnycky, Atl. Council
China Is Financing Putin's Aggression - Gordon Chang, Daily Beast
Great-Power Rivalry Still Threatens the Pacific - The Economist
Beware the Siren Song of ISIS - Geneive Abdo & Lulwa Rizkallah, TNI
Catholicism on Decline in Latin America - Adam Taylor, Wash. Post
The Ghosts of Jean-Claude Juncker's Past - Blome et al., Der Spiegel
Is Ed Miliband Labour's Worst Leader Ever? - Telegraph
People with the Reddest Hair in the World - Mark Stratton, BBC

RCW Morning Edition

Inside the Mind of a British Suicide Bomber - James Harkin, Newsweek
The Declining Relevance of Despots - Robert Kaplan, Stratfor
Putin Hitches a Chinese Ride Away from Europe - Colin Chilcoat, Oil Price
European Exhaustion, or: The Lessons of 1918 - Jan Techau, Carnegie
Obama and Hollande's Shared Gauche Malaise - Robert Zaretsky, FP
The End of NATO - Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover
China Still Loves You, Obama - Adam Minter, Bloomberg View
Historic Albania-Serbia Visit Turns Sour - Maja Poznatov, Euractiv
A Glimmer of Hope in Palestinian Poll - Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon
Kim Jong Un Embodies North Korea's Ills - Dennis Halpin, Weekly Standard
An Ineffective UN Body the U.S. Does Not Need - Brett Schaefer, Heritage
The Plight of Gays in Egypt - Rachel Avraham, Foreign Policy Blogs Network
ISIS Jams the Crucial Asia Pivot - Robert Kelly, The Diplomat
India's Rape Victims Turn to Revenge - Murali Krishnan, Vocativ
What Feminism Looks Like in Mauritius - Michelle Chen, The Nation
The School Where Bin Laden Is a Hero - Mobeen Azhar, BBC
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Editorials

Banking Is Rotten to the Core - The Guardian
U.S. and China Just Showed How to Lead by Example - Irish Times
Can China and U.S. Follow Through on Climate Change? - FT
China's Climate Con: Another Obama Scam - Washington Times

Research & Analysis

Scrutinizing Luxembourg's Tax Deals - ICIJ
The Disturbing Rise in NATO-Russia Brinkmanship - ELN
Finding a New Approach to China - Hoover Institution
An Overview of U.S. Trade Ties to Asia - Heritage Foundation

Real Clear World Wednesday

Morning Update
A Historic U.S.-China Agreement - John Kerry, New York Times
What the Fall of the Wall Did Not Change - George Friedman, Stratfor
Getting Libya's Warring Parties to the Table - Omar Shabbi, Al-Monitor
Smuggler: "I Sent ISIS Fighters to Europe" - Mike Giglio, BuzzFeed
The Return of the Dollar - Mohamed El-Erian, Project Syndicate
Church Becomes State in Russia - Joshua Keating, Slate
America's Eurasian Alliances Are Fraying - Andrew Peek, AI
Time for Germans to Earn the Gift of 1989 - C. Stelzenmuller, Brookings
Colombia's Villagers Mete Out Harsh Justice - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Myanmar Falls Short on Key Pledges - Matthew Pennington, Time
Fatal Hazing in South Korea's Military - Jason Strother, Worldcrunch
Heroism Evaporates in the Bin Laden Row - S. Byrnes, The National
Seoul Needs to Engage Pyongyang - Shim Jae-yun, Korea Times

Afternoon Update
Thousands of Putin's Troops in Ukraine - Shane Harris, Daily Beast
Russia's Problems Deeper Than Oil Prices - Christopher Miller, Moscow Times
The 20+ Countries Without a Military - Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
What Could Possibly Go Right in Iraq? - Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
Japan-China Relationship Thawing? - Jane Perlez, The Globe & Mail
Putting the Great Back into Great Britain - Harlan Ullman, Huffington Post
Afghan Opium Production at All-Time High - Ali M. Latifi, LA Times
The World Without the West - Barma, Ratner, Weber, National Interest
Awkward Moments for Obama, Putin at APEC - Josh Chin, WSJ

Real Clear World Tuesday

Morning Update
A Killer Al Qaeda-ISIS Alliance - Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast
China's 'Marshall Plan' Is Much More - Dingding Chen, The Diplomat
Kurds Fight for a New Kind of Democracy - K. Manoharan, Conversation
The Middle East Is a Foreign Policy Distraction - Gideon Rachman, FT
How to Solve Spain's Secession Crisis - Diego Muro, Foreign Affairs
Russian Chess Master: Check Putin Now - Andrew Rettman, EU Observer
China Truth-Teller Fired by U.S. Navy - David Larter, Navy Times
Behind the 'Dark Web' Cyber Busts - Anne Jolis, The Spectator
Japan's Revisionist Right Leads Witch Hunt - Jeff Kingston, Japan Times
Nigerian Jihadists' War on Children - Matt Schiavenza, The Atlantic
China Learns How to Rock - Audrey Lim, New Yorker
Russia in Denial About Its Economic Slide - Rob Garver, Fiscal Times
Will the U.S. Swap Riyadh for Tehran? - Crispian Cuss, Al Jazeera
Russification Rapidly Changes Crimea - Isabelle Mandraud, The Guardian
A Legacy of Fear Stunts the post-Soviet World - D. Brooks, New York Times
Putin Flirts, China Censors - Elliot Hannon, Slate
Laos Determined to Become Regional 'Battery' - M. Osborne, Interpreter
Mexico's President Falls from Grace - Dolia Estevez, Forbes

Afternoon Update
ISIS Wouldn't Die with al-Baghdadi - Shashank Joshi, Daily Telegraph
Obama Still Making Promises He Can't Keep - Danny Vinik, TNR
How GOP Congress Can Reassure Allies - Amir Taheri, New York Post
Room for U.S. in Xi's 'Asia-Pacific Dream'? - Shannon Tiezzi, Diplomat
Veterans Day & Excessive Self-Criticism - Max Boot, Commentary
Countries Without Militaries - Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
Russia Increases Provocation of NATO - Michael Totten, World Affairs
Kremlin's 'Sputnik': The Buzzfeed of Propaganda - Elias Groll, FP
How Close Is Russia to a Financial Crisis? - M. El-Erian, Bloomberg
Russia's Gold Digger Academy - Peter Pomerantsev, The Daily Beast

Real Clear World Monday

Morning Update
Steps Toward a U.S.-China Grand Bargain - Wei Zongyou, The Diplomat
9 Truths About the War on Islamic State - John McLaughlin, Ozy
Egypt Is Misdiagnosing Its Sinai Problem - Sharif Nashashibi, The National
Israel's One-State Reality - David Remnick, New Yorker
Netanyahu: We Won't Be Kicked Out - Marissa Newman, Times of Israel
Obama's Iran Gamble - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Charting the Rise in Russia-NATO Brinkmanship - E. MacAskill, Guardian
Massacre of Innocents Sparks Real Backlash in Mexico - E. Krauze, NYT
The Euro Is in Its Greatest Peril - Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times
Russia's Self-Esteem Problem - Pyotr Romanov, Moscow Times
Saving Europe's Dying Languages with Tourism - Nick Clark, Independent
Time to Bring Iran into Nuclear Summit - Ariane Tabatabai, BAS
5 Things to Know About China's New 'Silk Roads' - Jeremy Page, WSJ
Asia's Economic Miracle Has Peaked - William Wilson, National Interest

Afternoon Update
How Ukraine Let a Powerful Military Decline - Dmitry Gorenburg, WOTR
Iraq's Future: It's the Oil, Stupid - Michael Knights, Al Jazeera
Obama's War Is Illegal - Rand Paul, Daily Beast
Who Will Build Russia's Bridge to Crimea? - Anna Goldberg, Worldcrunch
Poland Needs More Berlin in Foreign Policy - J. Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Looming Iran Deal: Empowerment of Evil - David Horovitz, Times of Israel
Why Hasn't Obama Closed Guantanamo? - Marc Ambinder, Vice
Is ISIS Minting Gold and Silver Dinars? - Gilad Shiloach, Vocativ
Within a Failing State, Somaliland Blossoms - Armin Rosen, City Journal
Naples Softly Decays - Alan Johnston, BBC
Quebeckers Not Getting the Truth on Pipeline - K. Yakabuski, Globe & Mail

Real Clear World Sunday

Morning Update
Are Obama's Meets with Xi Actually of any Use? - Dean Cheng, TNI
A Plea for Catalonia - Andrew Davis, RealClearWorld
Remembering Communism's Collapse - Tom Palmer, Cato Institute
Why North Korea Released 2 Americans - Gordon Chang, Daily Beast
ISIS Leader May Be Dead, and It Doesn't Matter - Juan Cole, IC
Obama Needs to Stand Firm in China - Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
U.S. Hits Hard at ISIS Leadership - Erin Cunningham & Missy Ryan, WaPo
Germany Has Great Power but Little Purpose - Josef Janning, ECFR
Falling Back in Love with an East German Car - Paul Hockenos, NYT
Visualizing WWI's Human Toll - Economist
Northern Ireland's Walls Still Stand - Jack Sommers, Huffington Post
Mexicans Tire of their Government - Associated Press
Amnesty's Cynical anti-Israel Games - Alan Dershowitz, NY Daily News
Doubts Deepen on British Labour Leader - Daniel Boffey, The Guardian

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