Own goal

14 years ago

I wrote a few weeks ago from Belgrade that "nationalism has the edge."  Milan Marinković, who lives in Niš, Serbia,…

The state of Iraq

14 years ago

Corey Gannon, one of my Johns Hopkins/SAIS master's students this term, offers the following account of a Carnegie Endowment discussion…

A not so luminary 57

14 years ago

Colleagues over at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have lined up 57 luminaries…

More thunder, no lightning

14 years ago

The UN General Assembly today passed a resolution supporting the Arab League plan for Syria, which would have Bashar al…

Hard choices

14 years ago

My friends at Reuters published today my reaction to Dennis Ross' New York Times piece yesterday on negotiating with Iran…

Bizarre, but the cracks are showing

14 years ago

That's the only word for President Bashar al Assad's announcement today that he intends to hold a referendum on a…

Silence on the main issues

14 years ago

Sometimes the things that don't happen are more important than the things that do.  What did not happen last month…

Boning up on China

14 years ago

As readers of this blog will know, I am not an Asia expert and hesitate to write about a part…

This week’s peace picks: better late than never!

14 years ago

I was ill last night and didn't get the peace picks up until late today, but here are a few…

A rose is a rose

14 years ago

Gertrude Stein might just as well have said "Macedonia is Macedonia."  The trouble is, the Greeks don't like to hear…