Stabilizing Syria

11 years ago

Fred Hof, Bassma Kodmani and Jeff White want to set the stage for peace in Syria by creating a 50,000-strong Syrian…

The case against the nuclear deal

11 years ago

I spent lunch listening to a panel of bright people at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs discuss the…

Peace picks April 12-17

11 years ago

Iraq Under Abadi: Bridging Sectarian Divides in the Face of ISIS | Monday, April 13th | 9:00- 10:15 AM |…

Salafists, Sectarianism, Social Media

11 years ago

The Stimson Center held an event last week, entitled, Salafists And Sectarianism: Twitter And Communal Conflict In The Middle East.…

Reclaiming, reconstructing and reconciling

11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZlTfuJaUw The Middle East Institute and Johns Hopkins’ SAIS co-hosted a panel on the future Iraq on Tuesday, moderated by…

An announcement

11 years ago

The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies announced today that starting July 1 I will administer the Conflict Management…

What’s wrong, and not, with the nuclear deal

11 years ago

I don't know any honest analysts who don't credit the "framework" agreement outlined in a White House fact sheet with…

Bridging the Gulf

11 years ago

Cinzia Bianco, an analyst for the "Mediterranean and Gulf" programme at NATO Defence College Foundation whom I met on a…

A better place to start from

11 years ago

More or less half of American voters will cast their ballots for the Republicans in 2016, so it behooves us…

Iraq’s Sunnis

11 years ago

Someone asked me last week to introduce a discussion of Iraq's Sunnis. Here are the speaking notes I used: 1.…