Dumb and dumber

12 years ago

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić yesterday announced the arrest of two Kosovo Albanians in retaliation for the arrest of four…

Geography and oil are fate

12 years ago

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki seems for the moment to be winning his high stakes bet on hosting the…

U.S. policy on the Western Balkans

12 years ago

The Johns Hopkins/SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations today published Unfinished Business - The Western Balkans and the International Community.  Editors…

This week’s peace picks

12 years ago

Maybe I'm getting more exigent.  Just four events this week, though the first first one lasts three days: 1. Southeast…

The long shadow of European shoppers

12 years ago

If there is one thing I've learned in Rome over the past week, it's that this morning's headlines are correct: …

Arms and the man

12 years ago

My friends and colleagues are all over the lot on Syria.  One suggests we consider going to war against Bashar…

The view of Tehran from Rome

12 years ago

So, you might ask, how did the Italians react to my presentation today at the Institute of International Affairs (IAI)…

Blink, or else

12 years ago

I am speaking tomorrow at the Italian International Affairs Institute (IAI) on Iran, the United States and Europe.  Here are…

Peace picks this week

12 years ago

I'm late with this week's top items.  Missed two good ones today:  on Syria option at Brookings and on war…

Bosnia’s fate

12 years ago

Milan Marinkovic writes from Nis: What is to be done about Bosnia?  The divided country seems unlikely to survive without…