This past Tuesday I moderated the Q and A for a Middle East Institute presentation by Baroness Valerie Amos, the UN’s Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, on “The International Response to Syria’s Humanitarian Catastrophe.” Here is the video, which is also up on the MEI website:
A war criminal can die, while the ideology that made him a hero survives. That…
We are witnessing a new variation on Milan Kundera’s famous *The Joke*: “Optimism is opium…
It is high time to get on with the serious business of governing, which includes…
Belgrade talks the talk, takes the EU money, and does nearly nothing. It is time…
Allowing the powers that be in the region to reach their own equilibrium, with US…
Trump has promised an agreement with Iran that can't be reached while Iran and Oman…