Have we got the Arab Spring right?

15 years ago

The Middle East Institute, which kindly lists me among its "scholars," asked me to address the question of whether President…

Where am I?

15 years ago

That's what a loyal reader asks:  she wants me to comment on recent events in Northern Kosovo, where the Pristina…

Bosnia kurtly

15 years ago

Yesterday's Helsinki Commission hearing on Bosnia is already up in video.  I thought Kurt Bassuener's statement so well crafted that…

My how large your challenges are!

15 years ago

I hope you've checked out the "constitutional charter" mentioned in yesterday's post.  It's worth a glance, if only to convince…

The new Libya, in draft

15 years ago

I had the privilege of spending a good part of today with Fathi Mohammed Baja, who represents Benghazi on the…

The Afghanistan war’s last casualty

15 years ago

Steve Clemons has noted how the Afghanistan war, once a magnet for the best and the brightest, has been left…

Off the deep end

15 years ago

So much is being written so quickly about a Norwegian whose name I don't care to remember it is very…

The Balkan high road

15 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?

15 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

15 years ago

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