Real Clear World Friday

Reading the Arab Spring Elections - Amir Taheri, New York Post
Libya Debut Bucks Regional Trend - Larbi Sadiki, The National
What Do Arabs Think of Their Democracies? - R. Wike & B. Stokes, FP
Syria a 'Cockpit' for Proxy Wars - Michael Burleigh, Daily Mail
Pressure Valve Blows for Syrian Defections - Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Afghans Take the Money and Run - Eltaf Najafizada, BusinessWeek
India's Frugal Dynamism - Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate
Conflict over China's Forced Abortions Heats Up - Hannah Beech, Time
How Much Power Does China's Army Have? - Peter Mattis, The Diplomat
Europe in Most Danger Since 1930s - Thomas Pascoe, Daily Telegraph
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Best of Blogs

The Foreign Policy Speech That Landed Condi on Mitt's List - BuzzFeed
Egyptian Presidential Election Map - Eric Schewe
The Arab World's Nation-Building Problem - Max Boot, Contentions
Can India Help Afghanistan Prosper? - Nitin Gokhale, Indian Decade?

RCW Morning Edition

The West Isn't Ready for the Rise of China - Kevin Rudd, New Statesman
Arab Spring and Islamist Ascendancy - Charles Krauthammer, Wash. Post
America's Egypt Problem - Aaron David Miller, Los Angeles Times
As Egypt Feuds, Economy Heads Toward Cliff - Blair & Werr, Reuters
Al-Qaeda Tightens Its Grip on Africa - Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph
From Bad to Worse in Afghanistan - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
Romney's World Tour Should Begin in Mexico - Andres Oppenheimer, MH
Will Syria's Conflict Spill into War-Weary Iraq? - Vivienne Walt, Time
Putin's Push to Modernize Russia's Army - Benjamin Quenelle, Les Echos
Obama's Scramble for 'New Spice Route' in Africa - Nick Turse, Salon
U.S., China Needn't Fight over Africa - David Shinn, China-U.S. Focus
Hollande's 'Justice' Is Risky for France - Neil Rogachevsky, National Interest
Aging Britain Needs More Immigration - Alex Massie, The Spectator
The Irrational Hatred of Stephen Harper - Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen
Tilting at the UN Windmill - Jonah Goldberg, National Review
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Editorials

Obama, Romney Do Disservice to Americans on Trade - Globe & Mail
When Clinton Meets Morsi - Bloomberg
Bashar al-Assad's Shrinking Circle - The Guardian
Iran Is Part of Syrian Problem, Not the Solution - Gulf News

Research & Analysis

Sanctions Deal Blow to Iran's Long-range Missile Development - IISS
Why the Euro Baffles America - Defining Ideas
Bahraini Shia and Iran - American Enterprise Institute
Just How 'Multinational' Are China's Corporations? - Brookings

Real Clear World Thursday

Morning Update
Where's Obama's Mideast Strategy? - Michael Young, Daily Star
Can Diplomacy Succeed with Iran, Syria? - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Hard Landing? China's Still Going Strong - Steven Rattner, New York Times
How Syria Became a Proxy War - Michael Ignatieff, NY Review of Books
Why Israel Won't Bomb Iran - Dan Raviv & Yossi Melman, Tablet Magazine
Russia's 'Great Game' in Central Asia - Richard Weitz, The Diplomat
Australia's Resource Lesson for the U.S. - Edward Glaeser, Bloomberg
It's Time for Israel to Rule the West Bank - Tzipi Hotovely, Jerusalem Post
How Much Pain Can Spain Endure? - Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph
Mexicans Vote for Peace, Plan for War - Tom Hayden, The Nation
Cameron's Position Getting Weaker - Steve Richards, The Independent
Life in a Rapidly Changing World - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Turkey-Iran Alliance That Wasn't - F. Stephen Larrabee, Foreign Affairs
Islamists Nurture Fascism in Egypt - Akram Ismail, Al Masry Al Youm
The Clashing Communities of Syria - Charles Glass, World Affairs Journal

Afternoon Update
Is Reform Coming to North Korea? - Andreas Lorenz, Der Spiegel
China's Precarious Global Rise - Minghao Zhao, New York Times
East Asian Miracle, Revisited - Andrew Sheng & Geng Xiao, Project Syndicate
Iran Nuclear Talks Are Working - Robert Dreyfuss, The Diplomat
The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - Geoffrey Cain, Foreign Policy
Putin's Fear Strategy Is Losing Its Edge - Vladimir Gelman, Moscow Times
Libya Is Still Fighting for Democracy - Karim Mezran, The Atlantic
UK's Coalition Government Looks Lost - Michael Barone, National Review
Romania: One of the Worst Run Countries in Europe - The Economist
A Cold Draft Blows Through Israel - Mat Hardy, The Conversation

Real Clear World Wednesday

Morning Update
Moscow's Marines Head for Syria - Mark Katz, Foreign Policy
Is Corruption the Cost of Saving Afghanistan? - Roland Paris, Globe & Mail
Should the World Fear China? - Frank Ching, China Post
Egypt's Real Ruler - Daniel Pipes & Cynthia Farahat, National Review
Egypt's Overhyped Parliament Showdown - Ashraf Khalil, The Daily Beast
Syria's Many 'Liberators' - Charles Glass, The National
The Ugly Truth About Algeria - John Schindler, The National Interest
Greek Far Right Hangs a Target on Immigrants - Liz Alderman, NY Times
Europe Needs a Multiethnic Miracle - Yascha Mounk, Slate
Hungary's Backslide Hurts Europe - James Kirchick, Foreign Affairs
Will Iranians Rally Around the flag? - Cameron Brown, Jerusalem Post
Vladimir Putin's Hurricane Katrina - Vladimir Frolov, Moscow Times
Scotland's Existential Threat to Britain - Geoffrey Wheatcroft, TNR
Time for Cameron to Put Clegg in His Place - Max Hastings, Daily Mail
To Make U.S. Great Again, Americans Must Travel - Elliot Gerson, Atlantic

Afternoon Update
Why the U.S. Could Bomb Iran - Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine
It's Been Germany vs. Europe - David McWilliams, Irish Independent
The Future of U.S. Special Ops - Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics
In Mali, U.S. Should Watch, Wait, Do Nothing - Robert Grenier, Al Jazeera
Once Strong Catholic Church Declines in Poland - Jan Puhl, Der Spiegel
Syria Divides Turkey's Conservatives - Suat Kiniklioglu, Today's Zaman
Obama Must Lead from Front in Syria - Peter Brookes, New York Post
A Confucian Constitution for China - Qing & Bell, New York Times
India's U.S. Friends, Iranian Partners - Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
Africa Joins the Race for Space - Meredith Baker, BBC News

Real Clear World Tuesday

Morning Update
U.S. Must Pick Hamid Karzai's Successor - Michael O'Hanlon, Wash Post
Libya Answers Its Critics - Shashank Joshi, Daily Telegraph
U.S. Antagonist in Iraq Takes Political Gamble - Tim Arango, NY Times
Is Boris Johnson a Joker or Britain's Next PM? - Howard Jacobson, TNR
Only an Arms Embargo Can Save Syria - Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
Will Mexico Declare Peace in the War On Drugs? - Doug Bandow, Forbes
Old-style Politics Returns to Mexico - Laura Macdonald, Ottawa Citizen
Crisis Won't Diminish European Foreign Policy - Catherine Ashton, ECFR
One Year Later, South Sudan Is a Disaster - Alan Boswell, Foreign Policy
Self-inflicted Wounds Leave India Reeling - Jon Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
A Disaster Made in Japan - William Pesek, Bloomberg
Paraguay's Impeached Democracy - Setrini & Arce, Project Syndicate
The Making of an Indian Terrorist - Praveen Swami, The Hindu
Attacking Israel Online - Ben Cohen, Commentary Magazine
What the Eurozone Can Learn from South Korea - Lucy Williamson, BBC

Afternoon Update
Why Islamists Aren't Winning in Libya - Abigail Hauslohner, Time
What's Going on in Egypt? Don't Ask Egyptians - Eric Trager, TNR
The Plagues of Egypt - Sarah Topol, Newsweek
Does Power Really Moderate Radicals? - Barry Rubin, PJ Media
U.S.-Pakistan Detente Won't Last - Joshua Foust, The Atlantic
Syria's Alawites Put Survival over State - Franck Salameh, TNI
2014 Looms Ominously for Afghanistan - Sanjay Kumar, The Diplomat
Russia Loses Central Asia Pivot - M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
Why Won't U.S. Act on Rwanda & Congo? - Jeffrey Tayler, Foreign Policy
Could China's One-Child Policy Change? - Fareed Zakaria, CNN