Get ready for 2025

7 years ago

Marija Jovicevic of Podgorica daily Pobjeda asked some questions. I answered:  Montenegro entered NATO one year ago. Do You think…

Stabilization again

7 years ago

During the Stabilization Symposium on Tuesday, a panel consisting of Frances Brown (Fellow – Carnegie Institute), Ciara Knudsen (Policy Planning Staff, Office of…

Elections have consequences

7 years ago

Here are the speaking notes I prepared for today's noontime presentation at SETA DC: It wasn’t free or fair, but…

Israel’s “center”

7 years ago

On Monday, the Brookings Institution hosted M.K. Yair Lapid, founder of the centrist Yesh Atid party, the largest opposition party…

Winners should stabilize, like it or not

7 years ago

Throughout the two-day Stabilization Symposium – held at the Elliott School of International Affairs on June 26-27, 2018 – panels…

Grading the stabilization review

7 years ago

I spent some quality time yesterday and today at an interagency unveiling of the  US government's Stabilization Assistance Review (SAR),…

Peace Picks – June 25-July 1

7 years ago

1. An Alternative Vision for Israel | Monday, June 25, 2018 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Brookings Institution | Register Here On…

The Levant: from bad to worse

7 years ago

The Wilson Center hosted a panel yesterday entitled “The Middle East: A Region in Chaos?” to discuss the current situation…

Middle East chaos: the Saudi-Iranian axis

7 years ago

Since the four following panelists last met at the Wilson Center on December 5, 2017 (click here for that event's summary), turmoil…

Chemical weapons: how and who

7 years ago

The deployment of chemical weapons in Homs, Syria by the Assad regime in late 2012 ended a 20-year freeze on state…