Gertrude Stein might just as well have said "Macedonia is Macedonia." The trouble is, the Greeks don't like to hear…
Yesterday was busy on peacefare.net, with some vigorous comments and tweets about my post on Syria. I thought I might…
TheAtlantic.com published my call for a return to nonviolence in Syria this morning, under the infelicitous title "Why the Syrian…
So far as I can tell, these materials are not readily available in English: 1. A press release from the…
The 3.5 (sometimes called four) Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo are under Belgrade's control, not Pristina's. Milan Marinković writes from…
Sometimes what matters in diplomacy is what doesn't happen. That was certainly the case with Saturday's defeat of the Arab…
Loads of interesting events this week: 1. Georgian-South Ossetian Confidence Building Processes, Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor, February 6, noon-…
Yesterday a treasured Twitter follower described me as optimistic on Syria, because I saw some promise of a serious transition…
Turtle Bay has helpfully posted the latest UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria. It does many good things (condemns…
I could quibble about details in the ICG's latest report on Kosovo and Serbia. It minimizes Belgrade's role in north…