Shaping a security community

12 years ago

István Gyarmati (Professor and President of the Center for Democracy Public Foundation in Budapest) opens the first panel session of the…

What good is the OSCE?

12 years ago

I'm at the Organization for Security and Cooperation's "Security Days" conference in Vienna (Austria, not Virginia) today.  This is an…

This week’s peace picks

12 years ago

Lots of good events in DC this week, several of them big all-day events.  I'll be away part of the…

Albania’s role in the neighborhood

12 years ago

I spoke this morning at CSIS on this topic.  Here are the notes I prepared for myself: In an important…

No, Yemen won’t work in Syria

12 years ago

Tonight at the International Peace Institute in New York, Jamal Benomar, special representative of the UN Secretary General for Yemen,…

No earth shaker

12 years ago

Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz spoke Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy during his first appearance…

Mendacious

12 years ago

As regular readers will have noticed, I've avoided writing about the Balkans lately.  There are a lot more interesting things…

Playing chess with Mike Tyson

12 years ago

I might wish that were the name of William Dobson's book about how dictators are adjusting to contemporary pro-democracy rebellions,…

Pakistani media highs and lows

12 years ago

Ilona Gerbakher wasn't entirely happy with the earlier draft of her piece, which I posted prematurely.  So I am posting…

Bearly civil

12 years ago

Russia is not  America's "number one geopolitical foe," as Governor Romney suggested in March, but newly reelected President Putin is…