Declining, but not disappearing

10 years ago

Yesterday's discussion of Russia: A Test for Transatlantic Unity at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy made for a grim morning.…

The trouble still brewing

10 years ago

Yesterday's discussion at SAIS of Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil : Policy Adjustment in MENA and CCA Oil-Exporting Countries raised…

Better than surrender

10 years ago

Colleagues at RAND have updated their peace proposal for Syria. This should be taken seriously, both because Jim Dobbins, Phil Gordon…

Trump’s defeat

10 years ago

With Hillary Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination, it is time to consider the far more likely scenario: that she will…

50 years on, who will be a hero?

10 years ago

I was in a chili joint on the south side of Chicago that night in the winter of 1967/8 when…

Peace Picks June 6-10

10 years ago

A Transatlantic Strategy for a Democratic Tunisia | Tuesday, June 7th | 9:00-10:30 | Atlantic Council | REGISTER TO ATTEND…

Good critique, but where’s the beef?

10 years ago

Hillary Clinton went after Donald Trump on national security issues yesterday, landing lots of body blows and a head shot…

A step down the slippery slope

10 years ago

Juan Cole is predicting long-term repercussions from the move of Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with US support into the 90-mile…

Washington Journal: Iraq and Afghanistan

10 years ago

Here is my appearance last Saturday on C-Span's Washington Journal discussing Iraq and Afghanistan:

The end of despair

10 years ago

Even as hope fades for peace talks, Syrian civil society gives me reason not to despair. Here is my preface to…