Lots of good events in DC this week, several of them big all-day events. I'll be away part of the…
I spoke this morning at CSIS on this topic. Here are the notes I prepared for myself: In an important…
Tonight at the International Peace Institute in New York, Jamal Benomar, special representative of the UN Secretary General for Yemen,…
Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz spoke Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy during his first appearance…
As regular readers will have noticed, I've avoided writing about the Balkans lately. There are a lot more interesting things…
I might wish that were the name of William Dobson's book about how dictators are adjusting to contemporary pro-democracy rebellions,…
Ilona Gerbakher wasn't entirely happy with the earlier draft of her piece, which I posted prematurely. So I am posting…
Russia is not America's "number one geopolitical foe," as Governor Romney suggested in March, but newly reelected President Putin is…
The significance of today's joint Obama/Putin call for democratic transition in Syria is, as usual, in what is not mentioned. …
The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has conducted an autocoup (that's a coup conducted by people already…