Syria: bad to worse

12 years ago

What do you do about the killers when the war is over? It's not easy to summarize the discussions I…

Process matters

12 years ago

Egypt's latest constitutional declaration, which is intended to lay out a roadmap for elections within six months, is a mistake. …

Afghanistan: why negotiate?

12 years ago

As global attention focuses on the uncertainty in Egypt, the seemingly-ceaseless conflict in Syria, and Edward Snowden’s world tour to…

Peace Picks July 8-12

12 years ago

A computer crash delayed this week's abundant edition, but here it is: 1. The Failed States Index 2013 Launch Event,…

Snowden right and wrong

12 years ago

Let me first concede on the main factual point:  the National Security Agency (NSA) has been doing what Edward Snowden…

Polarization

12 years ago

Last night's massacre in Cairo has disputed origins, but the effect is all too clear:  polarization.  The Muslim Brotherhood will…

Inclusion is difficult

12 years ago

That's clear enough from this morning's news that the Salafist Nour party appears to have vetoed the already announced naming…

ElBaradei should not make Morsi’s mistakes

12 years ago

If Americans remember Mohamed ElBaradei at all, it is for his stubborn and ultimately vindicated resistance to the George W.…

Yemenis in DC

12 years ago

I spent a couple of hours with visiting Yemenis earlier this week, focused on the current national dialogue.  This was…

Meanwhile in the Balkans

12 years ago

I did this interview Wednesday for Bedrudin Brljavac of the Turkish Anadolu agency in Sarajevo: In the aftermath of the…