Kofi Annan complains: Some say that the plan may be dead. Is the problem the plan or is the problem…
If you don't want to be live-tweeted, don't speak to a group in their 20s! My 5-7 minutes or so…
I know I'll get lots of flak for this post, which Al-Monitor.com published yesterday under the headline "Vote Shafiq: Warts…
Gregor Nazarian, who has joined me for the summer as a Middle East Institute intern, writes: Syria said yesterday that…
No, in a word. Not yet. While the press waxes alarmist, what is happening resembles nothing more than the usual…
Joshua Landis, who knows the Syrian regime as well as any American, warns vigorously against military intervention: we've failed at…
Sonja Biserko, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and the Eric Lane Fellow at Clare College,…
A relatively slow week with most interesting things concentrated in the first couple of days: 1. Disentangling Smart Power: Interests,…
Today I spent a couple of hours at the Serbian orthodox monastery in Dečani, a 14th century beauty of enormous…
That's Mother Teresa Street below, the grinning prime minister on the building that houses his party headquarters, and the city…