Mr. Dodik came to Washington too

14 years ago

The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, is careful.  Unlike Slobodan Petrovic, the Kosovo Serb deputy prime minister who spoke…

The witch is dead

14 years ago

Reuters published this piece today, under the heading "Libya's Democracy Has a Real Chance": Libyans will be getting up late…

Mr. Petrović comes to Washington

14 years ago

Slobodan Petrović, the leader of the largest Serb political bloc in the Kosovo parliament and a deputy prime minister in…

Tehran’s options

14 years ago

While the world debates the significance of the Hamas/Israel prisoner exchange, let me turn back to something that really counts…

Listen to the choir

14 years ago

I am finding myself in good company on Pakistan, where I argued early this month that we need to pick…

Next week’s “peace picks”

14 years ago

Good stuff, especially early in the week.  Heavy on Johns Hopkins events, but what do you expect? 1.  Strengthening the…

An orthodox approach to heresy

14 years ago

In today's news: the Kenyan army is going after El Shabab, the Somali extremist group.  The United States is deploying…

Farewell Iraq, more or less

14 years ago

The Americans are reported to be abandoning plans to leave troops in Iraq after the end of the year, with…

There are still things to do about Syria

14 years ago

I'm an enthusiast, as most Americans I know are, for our ambassador in Damascus, Robert Ford, so here is his…

The limits of military power

14 years ago

Maybe it's because I've been reading Joe Nye's The Future of Power, but every event I've been to lately around…