Trouble in Balochistan

15 years ago

Eric Shu reports on the National Endowment on Democracy event May 2 on "Threats to Democracy in Balochistan": Malik Siraj…

This week’s peace picks

15 years ago

1. His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:  Building and Sustaining Peace: The UN Role in Post-Conflict Situations,…

A bad election trifecta

15 years ago

There were three elections today conducted in the shadow of Europe's austerity measures and impending recession:  France, Greece and Serbia. …

Glass empty

15 years ago

Yesterday's Middle East Institute discussion of Hamas's shifting political calculations, moderated by Phil Wilcox of the Foundation for Middle East…

True courage

15 years ago

Just a Friday reminder from central Damascus that true courage is not lacking in Syria:

Glass half full

15 years ago

Amr Hamzawy, now a secularist member of the Egyptian parliament, returned to the Carnegie Endowment where he once worked on…

Is Al Qaeda Inc. bankrupt?

15 years ago

It is hard for me to imagine adding anything original to the flood of commentary on the Letters from Abbottabad,…

A never ending story

15 years ago

It is hard not to sympathize with Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human rights activist.  The front-page photos show him…

Ingredients of success

15 years ago

I’m spending the day at the “The Arab Spring:  Getting It Right,” the annual conference of the Center for the…

Red lines drawn

15 years ago

The audience for the President's speech last night on the Strategic Partnership agreement with Afghanistan was the American electorate, but…