Half hearted

11 years ago

The Gulf leaders' meetings with President Obama last Wednesday evening at the White House and Thursday at Camp David resulted…

Forget about it

11 years ago

My friends at Pristina daily Koha Ditore sent me some questions this week, mostly focused on Macedonia. They published my…

Dayton plus 20

11 years ago

We at SAIS are marking the 20 years since the Dayton agreements (as well as the Srebrenica massacre) with a…

Tough love

11 years ago

Monday's statement by American Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily starts mildly enough but then goes ballistic, starting at 1'50" with…

Uneasy Kosovo, and Macedonia

11 years ago

Kosova Sot, a Pristina daily, asked me some questions last week and published the answers today. My responses are below…

Full circle, for some

11 years ago

Ten years ago, Iraq's Sunni provinces came within a few thousand votes of defeating the referendum that approved the new…

A grand bargain, with the Gulf not Iran

11 years ago

Expectations for next week's Wednesday/Thursday summit at the White House and Camp David with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) heads of…

An arresting development

11 years ago

Obviously prepared in advance of Nudem Durak's arrest, this video tells a powerful story entirely from the Kurdish perspective. Presumably…

Vietnam in perspective

11 years ago

For Americans of my generation, it is hard not to note the end of the Vietnam war 40 years ago.…

Yesterday, today, tomorrow

11 years ago

Johns Hopkins SAIS last Wednesday hosted a panel on Syrian civil society as part of a conference on "Escaping the…