Real Clear World Friday

Only China Can Tame North Korea - Derek Burney, Globe and Mail
What Do North Koreans Think of Kim Jong-un? - Hawken & Leighty, FP
The START Treaty Is Irrelevant - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Show Iran the Cost of Nuclear Ambition - Gerald Seib, Wall St. Journal
Why Are the Irish Being Punished? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
How to Win in Afghanistan - Greg Mills & David Richards, Foreign Affairs
How Capitalism Can Save the Planet - Philip Stephens, Financial Times
There Won't Be a Bailout for the Earth - Johann Hari, The Independent
British Youth Protests Are a Good Thing - Cristina Odone, UK Telegraph
Will the U.S. Foot the World's Security Bill? - Nikolas Gvosdev, WPR
Not Everyone Hates Russia - Yevgeny Bazhanov, Moscow Times
Karachi: Global Hub of Jihadism - Susanne Koelbl, Der Spiegel
Are Indonesia's Islamists Down and Out? - Luke Hunt, The Diplomat
Peru: Counterfeit Capital of the World - Lucien Chauvin, Time
Boiling Tensions in Western Sahara - Stefan Simanowitz, Washington Times
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Editorials

NATO's New Look - Japan Times
For NATO Alliance, Progress in Lisbon - Washington Post
Voting in a New Haiti - New York Times
Britain Must Make Its Own Human Rights Laws - Daily Telegraph

Research & Analysis

Cancun and the End of Climate Diplomacy - German Marshall Fund
Transferring Responsibility to the Afghans - Center for American Progress
Reaching a Political Settlement in Afghanistan - Oxford Research Group
California Vote Postpones Rethink on Global Drug War - IISS

Statements & Speeches

A New Era in UK-China Ties - David Cameron
Building Britain's Big Society - David Cameron
American Power in the Middle East - Joe Lieberman
Address to the UN General Assembly - Barack Obama

Real Clear World Thursday

Morning Update
North Korea Will Never Play Nice - B.R. Myers, New York Times
North Korea's Sixty Years War - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
Why America Has Staying Power - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Bombing Iran Would Save Obama - Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
Only Germany Can Save the Eurozone - Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
North Korea Crosses the Line Again - Greg Sheridan, The Australian
Iran's Internal Struggle for Power - Jamsheed Choksy, Foreign Policy
North Korea Is China's Problem Now - Douglas Paal, The National Interest
U.S. Outlasts Soviets in Afghanistan, Does it Matter? - Tony Karon, Time
Why the Left Lost the Financial Crisis - David Marquand, New Statesman
The Origins of Asia's Maritime Tensions - Andy Yee, Asia Sentinel
How to Set Palestine's Borders - Elisha Efrat, Haaretz
Central America's Post-Modern War - Frida Ghitis, World Politics Review
The Man Who Would Challenge Egypt - Robert Fisk, The Independent
Why the Russian Economy Will Boom - Anders Aslund, Moscow Times
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Real Clear World Wednesday

Morning Update
Why We're Always Fooled by North Korea - Green & Tobey, Wall St. Journal
North Korea Wants to Negotiate - Jimmy Carter, Washington Post
Attack May Be Sign of North's Implosion - Robert Kaplan, Financial Times
Ahmadinejad's Days Are Numbered - Reza Aslan, The Daily Beast
Why the Euro Will Survive the Crisis - Sven Boll, Der Spiegel
Irish Loan May Trigger a Tory War - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
West Needs to Get Used to Assertive China - Minxin Pei, The Diplomat
Time to Get China to Stop Pyongyang - J. Miller & W. Tobey, City Journal
War Can't Contain Terrorism - Robert Wright, New York Times
Obama's Terrible Plan to Spread Nuclear Weapons - Henry Sokolski, TNR
Why Palestine Should Declare a State - Shahram Akbarzadeh, Australian
The Misguided Ireland Bailout - Piotr Brzezinski, National Review
Haiti's Blame Game Begins - Pooja Bhatia, Foreign Policy
Robert Wexler For Mideast Envoy - Alon Ben-Meir, Jerusalem Post
Should the U.S. Bomb Sudan to Save It? - Zenko & Friedman, CS Monitor
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Real Clear World Tuesday

Morning Update
Iran Assembly Aims to Oust Ahmadinejad - Farnaz Fassihi, Wall St. Journal
NATO's Real Fight Is Still in Europe - Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
Time to Reunify the Korean Peninsula - John Bolton, Los Angeles Times
Merkel Faces Tough Sell on Irish Bailout - Severin Weiland, Der Spiegel
How Germany Could Kill the Euro - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
As U.S. Mumbles, Britain Speaks Out - Roger Cohen, New York Times
What's So Scary About Egypt's Islamists? - Baker & Hauslohner, Time
What Will it Take for Sarkozy to Resign? - Angelique Chrisafis, Guardian
Britain Headed for French-style Protests? - Hasan Suroor, The Hindu
Tackling Extremism in UK Classrooms - Ruth Dudley Edwards, Telegraph
India's Population Time Bomb - Shreyasi Singh, The Diplomat
Yes, Israel Is a Banana Republic - Moshe Arens, Haaretz
Want to Slash Poverty? Look to Latin America - David Francis, CS Monitor
The Politics & Price of Human Smuggling - Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
Use Trade to Transform Burma - Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
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Afternoon Update
How Might U.S. Respond to North Korea Attack - Peter Grier, CS Monitor
Pyongyang's 'Shock-and-Awe' Negotiations Ploy - Sunny Lee, Asia Times
Dying Kim Jong-il Plays His Aces - David Pilling, Financial Times
U.S. Shouldn't Cut Back on Defense - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
NATO-Russia Ties Still Unresolved - Alexander Golts, Moscow Times
Turkey Finally Has Own Foreign Policy - Ergun Babahan, Today's Zaman
Asian Nations Spoiling for Real War - Joshua Kurlantzick, Newsweek
Changing Burma By Peaceful Means - Aung San Suu Kyi, Der Spiegel
Africa Resists EU's Free Trade Pacts - Martin Khor, China Post
UN Negligence Brought Cholera to Haiti - Peter Hallward, The Guardian
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