Delaying the inevitable

11 years ago

Blic Online late last night published what purports to be a draft text of a Pristina/Belgrade agreement, one supposedly agreed…

Preventing mass atrocity after Assad

11 years ago

Reuters (http://reut.rs/WMw240) published this piece today: As the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising approaches, close to 80,000 people have…

Do unto others…

11 years ago

As soon as the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo was elevated to the prime ministerial level, the process began to…

How serious is the cyber threat?

11 years ago

By now, Americans should be thoroughly acclimated to exaggerations of threat:  the Soviet threat was inflated, the Iraq weapons of…

Listen to Karzai

11 years ago

The American press is so anxious to parse what Afghan President Karzai said Sunday, and to interpret it as anti-American,…

Peace Picks: March 11-15

11 years ago

A few fine events as spring begins to arrive in DC: 1.  Understanding Who’s Who in Northern Mali: Terrorists, Secessionists,…

A counterweight to Western pessimism

11 years ago

I wasn't planning to write about Kishore Mahbubani's talk at SAIS this week, but it was too good to pass…

Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan post-2014

11 years ago

George Washington University's Pakistani and Afghan Student Associations co-sponsored Thursday's panel discussion of Pakistan's role in Afghanistan post-2014, when NATO…

Syria seen from Venus and Mars

11 years ago

I enjoyed yesterday two events on Syria, back to back and less than a block from each other.  An all-women…

Drop it now

11 years ago

The failure of the latest round of Belgrade/Pristina talks to reach agreement on an association of Serb municipalities in Kosovo…