The Balkan high road

14 years ago

Asked to talk with Fulbrighters going to Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, I did the following notes for myself.  They…

Can citizens bridge the divide?

14 years ago

Pew yesterday published the results of its survey of Western and Muslim attitudes towards each other, updating a 2006 survey. …

The rich get richer

14 years ago

Yesterday's conference on investment prospects in the wake of the Arab Spring over at the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee…

Better late than never

14 years ago

Goran  Hadžić, the last remaining Serb fugitive from indictments by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was arrested…

Beyond Rupert Murdoch

14 years ago

The Murdoch scandal may look like a domestic UK affair, with repercussions for the media also domestically in Australia and…

No harm done, maybe some good

14 years ago

The State Department has let it be known that Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman met with Libyan government (as in Gaddafi)…

Nonviolent discipline is still vital

14 years ago

While I am afraid I've written this all before, it is important to reiterate now that sectarianism is rearing its…

The real budget losers won’t be military

14 years ago

After several days of Casey Anthony, Carmeggedon, and Rebekah Brooks, my TV finally produced something worth watching:  the U.S./Japan women's…

The damndest problem

14 years ago

Somehow this invitation to a discussion of India/Pakistan relations prompts me to ask a different but related question:  how should…

Does recognition make a difference?

14 years ago

The United States today joined 32 other countries at what is being called a "contact group" meeting in Istanbul in…