RealClearWorld Week of March 23, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 23
Ali Khamenei Is Dead, but His Network Remains
Erfan Fard Jerusalem Post
America Has No Good Options in Iran
Ilan Goldenberg Foreign Affairs
Trump Says Talks To End Iran War Are Underway
Longley & Mazneva Bloomberg
Iran After Larijani and Khamenei
Charbel Antoun The National Interest
How Russia Is Leveraging the Iran War
Andrew Michta 19FortyFive
Moscow's Strategic Trap Over Iran War
Igor Desyatnikov Geopolitical Monitor
The Strait of Hormuz May Be a Feature, Not a Flaw
Richard Porter RealClearPolitics
Fight for Country? A Poll Among NATO Allies
Māris Andžāns FPRI
How Turkey Made Itself Too Useful to Ignore
Oliver Dawson RealClearWorld
Why is China Sitting Out the War on Iran
Ali Wyne Time
The Donroe Doctrine and China's Economic Statecraft
Wong & Scissors WOTR
The Road to Beijing Doesn’t Run Through Tehran
Meg Hansen Responsible Statecraft
French Far Right Claims Momentum After Local Elections
Clea Caulcutt Politico EU
France’s Drift to the Extremes Is Far From Over
Francois Valentin The Telegraph
The Tragedy of Paul Ehrlich
Art Carden Civitas Outlook


Tuesday, March 24
Trump Won the Battle, But Will He Take Iran?
Victor Davis Hanson The Daily Signal
How to End the War in Iran
Justin Logan The American Conservative
Suicide by Timidity
Irwin Mansdorf Tablet
The Forever War Playbook Returns
Alexander Langlois RealClearWorld
Xi Jinping’s Latest Purge of Brass
Sukjoon Yoon Asia Times
China Squeezes Taiwan
Lingling Wei Wall Street Journal
Referendum Defeat Brings Italy’s Meloni Crashing Down
Hannah Roberts Politico EU
When Brussels Chooses the Winner, Nations Lose the Game
Mădălin Sârbu TEC
The Revolution That Never Comes
Ralph Schoellhammer Brussels Signal
Turkey’s Mission to Put an End to the Iran War
Ciddi and Sharawi RealClearWorld
In Lebanon, Israel Wants Dominance, Not Deterrence
Alexander Langlois TNI
The Syrian Clock Is Ticking in West Azerbaijan
Turkan Bozkurt Geopolitical Monitor
Marco Rubio’s Cuba Gamble
Francesca Chambers USA Today
Venezuela Forgets About Maduro and Starts a New Path
María Martín El Pais
Data Is Now the Front Line of Warfare
Emily Harding CSIS


Wednesday, March 25
Trump, Xi, and the Specter of 1914
Odd Arne Westad Foreign Affairs
Taiwan’s Four Lessons from the Iran War
James Holmes The National Interest
Allies Are Lining Up Behind Trump To Open the Strait of Hormuz
New York Post
The Arab World Is Looking for New Partners
Arman Mahmoudian The National Interest
The Myth of Authoritarian Stability in the Middle East
Fawaz Gerges Foreign Affairs
Pakistan Became the Iran War’s Indispensable Mediator
Omer Azhar Asia Times
Europe Is Deluded for Not Cheering On Trump in Iran
The Telegraph
UK and U.S. Special Relationship Turns to Contempt
Timothy G. Ash The Guardian
A Polish-German Reckoning
Sławomir Dębski War on the Rocks
How Mark Carney Sold Canada to China
Jane Stannus Spectator
Denmark’s Ruling Party Takes a Hit
Javier Villamor The European Conservative
Europe's Appalling Speech Laws
Anthony J. Constantini Brussels Signal
The Life of a North Korean Worker in Russia
Jay Ganglani NBC News
Crime Has Plunged in Venezuela
Kejal Vyas Wall Street Journal
The Economist Who Knew Too Much
Julia R. Cartwright Civitas Outlook


Thursday, March 26
Pentagon Prepares for Massive “Final Blow” of Iran War
Barak Ravid Axios
Iran Is Fighting a War of Exhaustion
Mark Kimmitt The National Interest
The False Promise of “Flexible Realism”
Lissner and Rapp-Hooper Foreign Affairs
The Case for Wars of Choice
Clifford D. May Foundation for Defense of Democracies
In Iran, Russia Pays America Back for Aiding Ukraine
Doug Bandow TAC
Iran’s Regime Destroyed Its Myth and Triggered Decay
Muhanad Seloom Newsweek
Gulf War I Was a Pyrrhic Victory
Martin Di Caro Responsible Statecraft
Gulf Allies Push To Have Their Concerns Addressed
Salem & Anderson CNN
Iran Could Reshape the Middle East
Fariba Parsa RealClearDefense
Europe Holds Iran Position – for Now
Zac Weisz GZero Media
European Progressives Have Some Reasons To Be Cheerful
The Guardian
German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth
Rafael Pinto Borges TEC
Italy’s Opposition Sees Its Chance To Beat Meloni
Hannah Roberts Politico EU
China is Losing Influence in Latin America
Arturo McFields The Hill
An American View of Britain’s Constitutional Tragedy
Michael Lucchese L&L


Friday, March 27
Rubio Spars With G-7 Diplomats
Palasciano Martin and Adghirni Bloomberg
When the War Is Interested in You
Karl Pfefferkorn Brussels Signal
Who Replaces Iran’s Old Dealmakers
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post
Secure the Strait of Hormuz and Declare Victory
David Blair The Telegraph
How America Can Avoid a Russian-Style Quagmire
James F. Jeffrey Foreign Affairs
Iran War Restores King Dollar’s Crown, for Now
William Pesek Asia Times
Gulf States Say They’re Ready for ‘Self Defense’
Holly Ellyatt & Emma Graham CNBC
Wars Have Entered the Chokehold Era
Hal Brands Bloomberg
Chokepoints Are Not Just Geographic
Duncan Wood The Hill
The Mexican Left’s War on NGOs
Juan David Rojas Compact
Pakistan’s Afghan Frankenstein
Konstantinos Bogdanos Brussels Signal
Finnish Court Convicts Räsänen of “Hate Speech”
Jonathon Van Maren TEC
Activists Try To Keep Chinese Land Grabs Near U.S. Bases
Philip Lenczycki TDC
Deciphering the 15th Five Year Plan
Bert Hofman MERICS
Wikipedia Mulls Renaming ‘Hamas Beheading Babies Hoax’
Aaron Bandler JNS
Saturday, March 28
10 Americans Injured in Attack on Saudi Air Base
Jennifer Jacobs et al. CBS News
In Iran, Guns in the Streets & Economic Pain
Maziar Motamedi Al-Jazeera
U.S. Needs to Finish the Fight Against Iran
Mike Watson Washington Free Beacon
Does the U.S. Have a “Day After” Plan in Iran?
Eric Alter The National Interest
The Two Ways to Win in Iran
Robert Nicholson Providence
As War Rages vs. Iran, Time for Peace in Ukraine
Steve Cortes RealClearPolitics
Ukraine Can Teach the U.S. About the Future of Warfare
Dalibor Rohac NYk Post
China’s Economy Could Be a Casualty of the Iran War
Gordon G. Chang Newsweek
The War Poses Bigger Questions for Beijing Than Oil
The Guardian
Japan Rethinks 80 Years of Pacifism
Jason Douglas & Junko Fukutome WSJ
A Porcupine Defense in the Drone Age
Pettyjohn and Campbell War on the Rocks
Western Europe Needs to Prioritize Technological Innovation
Helena Miller RCW
Pakistan’s Big Moment
Anik Joshi The American Conservative
A New Front in Euro-Atlantic Security
Cherkaoui Roudani Geopolitical Monitor
The Information State - Politics in the Age of Total Control
Siegel & Holt RCI


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