Syria needs a good negotiated settlement

13 years ago

I have generally appreciated the work of Andrew Tabler and his colleagues on Syria.  It is hard-hitting, clever and up…

My Fantasyland

13 years ago

I gather the Serbian parliament will not actually approve the Fantasyland platform for Kosovo but will instead pass a resolution containing…

War with Iran in 2013?

13 years ago

Reuters published this piece today, under what I regard as the misleading title "Will this be the year that Israel…

What is to be done

13 years ago

Hashem Alshamy, a Syrian reader, criticized peacefare.net today: Sincerely, I have been disappointed with your overtly focus on “post-conflict” suggestions,…

War’s end can be deadly too

13 years ago

My Twitterfeed this morning is full of references to a video of Syria's thugs finishing off rebels with knives and…

Serbia’s new year

13 years ago

Publication of my reflections on Kosovo's new year made me wonder why I hadn't done a comparable piece on Serbia. …

Kosovo’s new year

13 years ago

Kosovo Sot, a Pristina paper, likes to hear from me once a year.  Here is what I sent ten days…

It is not too early

13 years ago

UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday in Moscow of the Russian Foreign Minister: I think Sergey Lavrov…

Hussein Saleh, you are not alone

13 years ago

My journalist (McClatchy) friend and fellow Haverford graduate Roy Gutman tweeted this moving short video about a Yemeni International Committee…

This is bad

13 years ago

Egypt's President Morsi has given an all too clear response to the State Department's plea that he reach out to…