Just two peace picks this week

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

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

Schizophrenic Turkey

14 years ago

The closing panel yesterday at the Middle East Institute’s Third Annual Conference on Turkey, on “Turkey’s Leadership Role in an…

A milestone, again

14 years ago

Today is Vidovdan, Saint Vitus' Day for Serbs.  It is the 623rd anniversary of the battle of Kosovo Polje, commemorated…

A lot depends on your priorities

14 years ago

I did a quick writeup of Senator McCain's appearance yesterday at the Middle East Institute Turkey Conference, which is posted…

No laughing matter

14 years ago

Ilona Gerbakher reports: Monday, as Egypt’s elections results were being broadcast to the world, Freedom House and the John Hopkins…