The global chessboard

12 years ago

Barack Obama may not think he is playing on "some global chessboard," but it is pretty clear Vladimir Putin does. …

No end in sight

12 years ago

Syria is the most rapid and widespread displacement of people since the Rwandan civil war of the 1990s, according to…

Wait and see

12 years ago

Secretary of State Kerry today urged Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to accept the Ukrainian parliament's dismissal of President Yanukovich and…

Peace Picks February 24 – 28

12 years ago

1. Twitter Evolutions: The Changing Role of Social Media in War and Protest Monday, February 24 | 9am – 1pm…

Next up

12 years ago

Caracas yesterday, via @MiguelMarSan:   Buzzfeed offers this explanatory video: Venezuela is more evenly divided than Ukraine, and President Maduro's…

Mapping the conflict in Aleppo

12 years ago

From September 2013 to January 2014, Caerus Associates worked with local research teams in Aleppo to conduct an assessment of…

Happy and dull

12 years ago

I did this hangout with RFE's Gordana Knezevic and Dzenana Halimovic, moderated by Brian Whitmore, Wednesday and forgot to post…

Ukraine liberates itself

12 years ago

Hard to tell precisely what is going on in Ukraine or predict what the outcome will be, but it seems…

Tilting the playing field

12 years ago

We tend to treat adversaries as monolithic, especially when they label themselves an Islamic republic and put at its apex…

What Ukrainians want

12 years ago

I hope this morning's news of an agreement between demonstrators and the government pans out, but in any event it…