Careless but not prosecutable

10 years ago

FBI Director Comey seems to me to have it right: Secretary of State Clinton was "extremely careless" in handling classified…

Turning the clock back

10 years ago

I received this long letter (only slightly edited for spelling and other minor errors) from a group of people listed at…

Peace picks July 5 – July 14

10 years ago

The Path to Power in Brazil | Wednesday, July 6th | 12:30 pm | The Atlantic Council  |  Click HERE to RSVP.  |  Brazil’s current political earthquake…

240 years ago

10 years ago

Hard to do better than this, 240 years after its signature: IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of…

Why war

10 years ago

My review of Michael C. Horowitz, Allan C. Stam and Cali M. Ellis, Why Leaders Fight (Cambridge University Press, 2015)…

No end in sight

10 years ago

How can Daesh (that's the Islamic State, ISIS or ISIL to the uninitiated) be defeated and what will happen thereafter? If…

Good ideas

10 years ago

State-building, the function American presidents love to hate, is the unavoidable foreign policy burden of our times. Without it, the…

Peace Picks June 27-30

10 years ago

Restoring NATO's Power And Purpose| Monday, June 27th | 1:30  | Atlantic Council | 1030 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA|…

Brexit’s impact in the Middle East

10 years ago

The Middle East Institute, where I am affiliated as a Scholar, published my short assessment of Brexit's impact in the region this…

Rare success

10 years ago

I'm no expert on Colombia, but you don't have to be one to welcome the ceasefire negotiated with Cuban mediation between…