Low expectations met

14 years ago

The P5+1 (permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) finally met in Istanbul today with Iran and…

Luck needs a policy

14 years ago

We got lucky Friday:  the ceasefire in Syria mostly held.  But luck is not a policy.  Today things are falling…

U.S.-Iraq relations after the withdrawal

14 years ago

I'm speaking at noon with Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman and former Iraqi UN Deputy Perm Rep Feisal Istrabadi…

Working or not?

14 years ago

While Andrew Tabler, surely one of the best Syria analysts in DC, already denounced the ceasefire as a failure yesterday,…

No nukes or war

14 years ago

Tomorrow's P5 + 1 (that's the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China + Germany) talks in Istanbul with Iran promise to…

Grasping at straws

14 years ago

That's what the thinktanksphere is doing on Syria:  Bruce Jones at Foreignpolicy.com offers a hazy scenario in which the Syrian…

Dačić’s shameful revenge

14 years ago

A friend of Hasan Abazi, an Albanian labor unionist arrested in Serbia March 28, has provided the following update: After…

Brčko needs EU forces, not vowels

14 years ago

Last week saw a lot of journalists in Sarajevo for the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war. …

Make sure time is not on his side

14 years ago

President Obama issued a statement Friday (that's when we say things we don't want too widely noticed) marking the 18th…

Peace picks this week

14 years ago

Hard to know what to say about CSIS's Global Security Forum 2012, but I've listed at least one session below. …