#Egypt #fail

14 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

14 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

14 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?

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

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

Nikolic starts well, now let’s have fun

14 years ago

Tomislav Nikolic's inauguration as President of Serbia went well:  he pledged Serbia to a European future, committed himself to resolving…

Observe the observers observing

14 years ago

I won't even try to link to the multitudes who have declared the Annan plan for Syria a failure and…

This week’s peace picks

14 years ago

Not a slow week, but one with a bit longer term focus than some: 1. Persian subversion: Can America withstand…

Africa rising

14 years ago

Gregor Nazarian writes: We are used to bad news from Africa.  The antidote was Wednesday's discussion at Johns Hopkins/SAIS of…