Opening the barn doors

12 years ago

Tucked away towards the end of today's mammoth New York Times article on the National Security Agency's foreign eavesdropping, Scott…

Maliki isn’t likely to take much advice

12 years ago

Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki completed his visit to Washington yesterday.  He got a lot of free advice.  He should govern…

Maliki makes his case

12 years ago

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was in Washington last week to talk about Iraq's problems and the future of US-Iraq…

The quickest way out of the Balkans

12 years ago

It doesn't rank high in the annals of Balkan history, but the apparent Greek suggestion that Macedonia be renamed "Slavo-Albanian…

Tomorrow’s Kosovo elections

12 years ago

Milan Marinkovic writes from Nis, about Sunday's municipal elections in Kosovo:Given the importance of the forthcoming local elections in Kosovo…

The other North Korean challenge

12 years ago

I don't write much about North Korea, because I don't know a lot about it.  But I'm convinced it poses…

My morning mail from Belgrade

12 years ago

My morning mail brought this from the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies in Belgrade, in reference to the upcoming municipal elections…

Writing Righting the Balance

12 years ago

I've never been number 744,961 in anything before, that I knew of.  But that was my book's rank on Amazon…

When will Macedonia enter the EU?

12 years ago

I of course have no idea, but I did this interview for the Macedonian daily Vecer, which published it yesterday. …