This week’s peace picks

13 years ago

We are down to four-day weeks, but lots of interesting events anyway: 1. Egypt’s Elections: The End of the Revolution, …

Shifting sands

13 years ago

Uncertainty is breaking out all over the Greater Middle East. With Crown Prince Nayef's death in Saudi Arabia, the House…

More new wine into old bottles

13 years ago

Gregor Nazarian reports from Friday afternoon's discussion of the QDDR at USIP (I've already offered some general reflections on what…

New wine into old bottles

13 years ago

USIP yesterday morning hosted a meeting on the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).  I heard a lot of good…

#Egypt #fail

13 years ago

Not surprisingly, the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court decided yesterday that Ahmed Shafiq, a former Air Force general and prime minister…

Democracy fails between elections

13 years ago

Newly arrived Middle East Institute summer intern Ilona Gerbakher writes: While the world is significantly more democratic today than it…

The road to Damascus still runs through Moscow

13 years ago

Michelle Dunne and Dimitri Simes got it wrong in yesterday's discussion on the PBS Newshour of Russia's role in Syria.…

What does civil war meme?

13 years ago

Yesterday UN peacekeeping under secretary general Herve Ladsous suggested that Syria is indeed in a civil war: Yes, I think…

Credit the observers

13 years ago

The UN Supervision Mission in Syria has started posting its own Youtube videos (apologies if this is old news--it has…

Measuring peace

13 years ago

It is hard for me to know what to make of the Global Peace Index (GPI), the 2012 version of…