This week’s peace picks

13 years ago

1. Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole, Heritage Foundation, 12-1 pm July 10   Event Details  …

Hang together

13 years ago

There is something special about celebrating July 4 in Tripoli.  This is a country that made a revolution only after…

Elections are the means, legitimacy the end

13 years ago

Again from Tripoli: Even in a country as small (6.4 million people) as Libya, an election is a complicated affair. …

Libyan bellwether

13 years ago

From Tripoli: It is hard not to share Libyans' affection for their revolution.  They are thrilled with themselves.  Qaddafi seemed…

Just two peace picks this week

13 years ago

This is the deadest week I remember in DC, but if you happen to be stuck in town here are…

Thankful even if I don’t agree

13 years ago

The Belgrade Center for Peace and Democracy Development is today publishing a paper entitled Albanian--Serbian Dialogue:  Basis for a New…

Diplomacy doesn’t end with the communiqué

13 years ago

The final communiqué of the "action group" for Syria is a good one.  It goes further in defining next steps in…

Libya and Egypt are not in the same place

13 years ago

It will strike some as strange to write about Libya on the day Egypt's new president takes the oath of…

Keep quiet and send money

13 years ago

Yesterday's discussion of Egypt moderated by Freedom House's Charles Dunne and sponsored by the Middle East Institute at the Carnegie…

Putin was right

13 years ago

Russia's President said earlier this week: It is better to involve Iran in the settlement (of the Syrian crisis)...The more…