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…
I wrote a few weeks ago from Belgrade that "nationalism has the edge." Milan Marinković, who lives in Niš, Serbia,…
Corey Gannon, one of my Johns Hopkins/SAIS master's students this term, offers the following account of a Carnegie Endowment discussion…
Colleagues over at the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies have lined up 57 luminaries…
The UN General Assembly today passed a resolution supporting the Arab League plan for Syria, which would have Bashar al…