Too much this week, and most of it happening Wednesday: 1. Are economic sanctions the key to resolving the nuclear…
Huffington Post has just published my latest on Syria: With Kofi Annan chosen to be the joint UN/Arab League Special…
1244 is the UN Security Council resolution that ended the NATO/Yugoslavia war over Kosovo in 1999. Today in Brussels, Pristina…
The Irmgard Coninx Stiftung at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung is circulating this notice for scholars, activists and journalists: 16th…
I enjoyed a fine event yesterday at an undisclosed location discussing north Africa from the Mediterranean littoral to northern Nigeria. …
The Russian role in the Balkans has long been of great concern to some of my Western-oriented friends there, even…
Marc Lynch, in an otherwise convincing report advocating vigorous diplomatic rather than military means in dealing with Syria, goes a…
I am indebted for this post to a Facebook note from Tamara Wittes pointing out her optimistic testimony on Egypt,…
I somehow managed to commit myself to three events this week, one off-the-record and two public: on Syria with Mona…
Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to write a post suggesting that Bashar al Assad would likely win his…