A new idea

14 years ago

I don't often hear new ideas from the Balkans.  Most of what passes for innovation there is rehashed from the…

Listing

14 years ago

The signs that Bashar al Asad is in serious trouble are many: His security forces are having a hard time…

Downward spiral

14 years ago

That's where the Israel/Palestine negotiations are headed, at least for the moment.  BATNA is your "best alternative to a negotiated…

An-Nahda in the hot seat

14 years ago

A small group gathered Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to hear Mohamed Bechri, economics professor and…

This week’s peace picks

14 years ago

December starts with a busy week.   1. Working in Fragile States:  Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding with Impact, Monday December…

Iraq untethered

14 years ago

I've got a piece with that title in the December issue of Current History.  Too bad they left an earlier…

Ramrod

14 years ago

Yesterday's forced-march approval of Egypt's draft constitution by its rump constituent assembly bodes ill. If there is anything constitution-making experts…

Sins venal and cardinal

14 years ago

The Republican effort to block UN Ambassador Susan Rice from becoming Secretary of State is unseemly at best.  Not because…

Justice still doesn’t always mean convictions

14 years ago

The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquittal today of Ramush Haradinaj and Idriz Balaj has elicited the expected reactions…

Good news, and bad

14 years ago

As world leaders meet in Doha for the climate change conference, IEA officials presented the World Energy Outlook 2012 at…