Power, Power and Rice

11 years ago

While some are predicting (or hoping for) big changes in American foreign policy in the liberal interventionist/human rights first direction…

Ituri: DRC’s forgotten conflict zone

11 years ago

Matthias Witt, who studied post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian response at Georgetown University, currently works in public health and emergency programming…

Comfortably numb

11 years ago

While Tzipi Livni was lifting spirits at the American Jewish Committee, the New America Foundation hosted Israeli journalists Linoy Bar-Geffen…

Wishing doesn’t make it so

11 years ago

Yesterday's report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syria to the UN Human Rights Commission is an…

Self-determined

11 years ago

I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon with the leading lights of Kosovo's "Self-Determination" movement, Albin Kurti and Shpend…

Livni lifts spirits

11 years ago

Too often the discourse surrounding the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict focuses on divergent narratives. Complex ideas loaded with emotional and historical…

Peace Picks, June 3rd to June 7th

11 years ago

1. Democracy Think Tanks in Action: Translating Research into Policy in Young and Emerging Democracies, National Endowment for Democracy, Monday,…

“Il potere logora chi non ce l’ha”

11 years ago

As I am about to risk denunciation for drawing unreasonable parallels, let me state up front that Turkey is not…

Islamist politics meet diversity

11 years ago

Nuance and context were the main themes in a discussion this week at the Carnegie Endowment of the role of…

No exoneration

11 years ago

I won't pretend to have read the gigantesque judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitting…