Algeria: hoping for reform, not revolution

14 years ago

I missed parts of Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci's presentation this morning at CSIS--urgent phone calls kept me out at the…

False patriotism

14 years ago

The airwaves are so crowded with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta condemning the desecration of Taliban corpses it may come…

Fog of peace

14 years ago

With a gloomy National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan summarized in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post reporting on resumption…

Heading for Belgrade next week

14 years ago

I haven't been to Belgrade for a long time.  I am looking forward to seeing many friends, meeting new ones…

Bashar is right, there is a conspiracy

14 years ago

Bashar al Assad is right.  There is an international conspiracy to bring him down.  The United States, Turkey, much of…

This week’s “peace picks”

14 years ago

1.  International Responsibility After Libya, January 9, 10 -11:30 AM, Brookings Institution The question of international responsibility for protecting civilians…

The limits of R2P

14 years ago

The Arab League, meeting today in Cairo, got it right:  it is not their human rights monitors who have failed,…

Righting the civilian/military balance

14 years ago

Someone might imagine that I would be unhappy with the President's strategic guidance for the Defense Department, released last week. …

Libya on track, but delay may be wise

14 years ago

Geoffrey Curfman reports, from the Carnegie Endowment yesterday: Ali Tarhouni, former finance and oil minister in the National Transitional Council…

A stage for a lying murderer?

14 years ago

Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council (SNC), suggests "an international conference on Syria to stop the atrocities and…