Moscow’s steps toward strategic defeat

10 years ago

It would be hard to do better on Syria this morning than listening to this NPR report on Aleppo: But…

A cessation of hostilities unlikely to last

10 years ago

It took a week or two, but the US and Russia have finally come up with a joint statement whose…

Russia loses

10 years ago

I spoke this morning at a session on the Middle East of the SAIS conference on Russian Foreign Policy: New…

DRC election

10 years ago

SAIS student Qifan Huang reports: Last Wednesday, the SAIS African Studies Program hosted an event discussing the upcoming election in…

Peace Picks February 22-26

10 years ago

Stalin’s “Revolution from Above”: Property Seizure in the Perm Region | Tuesday, February 23rd | 10:00-11:00 | Wilson Center |…

The proverbial fly on the wall

10 years ago

Here is what a fly on the wall heard yesterday in a well-informed, but not attributable, discussion of Iraq. The…

Iran needs more than sanctions lifted

10 years ago

On Wednesday, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the…

Russian “immunity”

10 years ago

Milana Pejic of the Belgrade daily Blic asked me yesterday about immunity for Russian troops stationed in Serbia, which President Putin…

Will the hostilities cease?

10 years ago

The only real question about the cessation of hostilities supposedly agreed in Munich last week is when it will collapse.…

Republicans and Democrats like Jordan

10 years ago

On Thursday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa hosted a hearing on "Jordan:…