My Twitterfeed is full of people bemoaning Egyptian President Morsi's crackdown on protests against his ramrodding of the new constitution…
Today greeted me with two contradictory headlines. Fareed Zakaria urged a beginning to the end of the war on terror. …
Egyptian President Morsi's speech this afternoon was profoundly uncompromising. He denounced what he sees as opposition-inspired violence, suggested it was…
The NBC report that Bashar al Asad is preparing chemical weapons for use has generated a contradictory response: President Obama,…
I don't often hear new ideas from the Balkans. Most of what passes for innovation there is rehashed from the…
The signs that Bashar al Asad is in serious trouble are many: His security forces are having a hard time…
That's where the Israel/Palestine negotiations are headed, at least for the moment. BATNA is your "best alternative to a negotiated…
A small group gathered Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to hear Mohamed Bechri, economics professor and…
December starts with a busy week. 1. Working in Fragile States: Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding with Impact, Monday December…
I've got a piece with that title in the December issue of Current History. Too bad they left an earlier…