I somehow managed to commit myself to three events this week, one off-the-record and two public: on Syria with Mona…
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to write a post suggesting that Bashar al Assad would likely win his…
I wrote a few weeks ago from Belgrade that "nationalism has the edge." Milan Marinković, who lives in Niš, Serbia,…
Corey Gannon, one of my Johns Hopkins/SAIS master's students this term, offers the following account of a Carnegie Endowment discussion…
Colleagues over at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have lined up 57 luminaries…
The UN General Assembly today passed a resolution supporting the Arab League plan for Syria, which would have Bashar al…
My friends at Reuters published today my reaction to Dennis Ross' New York Times piece yesterday on negotiating with Iran…
That's the only word for President Bashar al Assad's announcement today that he intends to hold a referendum on a…
Sometimes the things that don't happen are more important than the things that do. What did not happen last month…
As readers of this blog will know, I am not an Asia expert and hesitate to write about a part…