What does Serbia want?

14 years ago

There is nothing new in this post:  only an explication of President Tadic's recent "four-point" plan for resolving Kosovo-related issues,…

It’s about the future, not the past

14 years ago

I've had a full day in Belgrade.  Let's see if I can make some sense of what I've heard about…

NATO and the Western Balkans

14 years ago

Here is the testimony I gave today at the U.S. Helsinki Commission, via Skype from Belgrade: Helsinki Commission “The Western…

Beware the tradeoffs

14 years ago

Important decisions are pending the next few days on Syria.  The two key immediate questions are these:  will the Arab…

Do candidates help or hinder diplomacy?

14 years ago

The press is asking today about the effect of the Republican presidential candidates' statements on foreign affairs.  One journalist puts…

I condemn excessive force

14 years ago

This is the third in a series of posts about violence in Kosovo Saturday.  I wrote yesterday: I may need…

This week’s peace picks

14 years ago

Short week in DC due to the Martin Luther King holiday Monday.  But some good things thereafter, which I'll mostly…

Nonviolence is nonviolent

14 years ago

I'm taking flak for yesterday's post on the violence between Albin Kurti's demonstrators and the police in Kosovo yesterday.  Most…

Burma gets real, but how real?

14 years ago

There can be no doubting the significance of Burma's moves in the past day or two:  a massive release of…

Violence answers the wrong question

14 years ago

People will ask, so I'll answer:  the efforts by Albin Kurti's "Self-determination" to block road crossings between Serbia and Kosovo…