While Tzipi Livni was lifting spirits at the American Jewish Committee, the New America Foundation hosted Israeli journalists Linoy Bar-Geffen…
Yesterday's report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syria to the UN Human Rights Commission is an…
I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon with the leading lights of Kosovo's "Self-Determination" movement, Albin Kurti and Shpend…
Too often the discourse surrounding the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict focuses on divergent narratives. Complex ideas loaded with emotional and historical…
1. Democracy Think Tanks in Action: Translating Research into Policy in Young and Emerging Democracies, National Endowment for Democracy, Monday,…
As I am about to risk denunciation for drawing unreasonable parallels, let me state up front that Turkey is not…
Nuance and context were the main themes in a discussion this week at the Carnegie Endowment of the role of…
I won't pretend to have read the gigantesque judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitting…
With the strategically placed town of Qusayr about to fall to Syrian army and Lebanese Hizbollah forces, the Syrian opposition…
Britain and France have collaborated in getting the European Union to lift its arms embargo on Syria, opening the possibility…