Too clever by half

15 years ago

As I have been attending a conference in Sarajevo for the past two days, it is more than time that…

No Belgrade, but here is what I would say

15 years ago

Here is an interview I've done for Snezana Congradin and Matja Stojanovic, published by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights…

Yemen will need the Americans

15 years ago

The end is near for Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar al Assad of Syria.…

Pandora’s box should stay closed

15 years ago

Thursday I offered a few pleasant surprises from my visit to Kosovo, but with no firm conclusions on the vital…

Returning to Sarajevo

15 years ago

This is an interview that appeared this week in the Sarajevo weekly Dani. I arrived in Bosnia's capital just this…

The EU prepares for a worthy new member

15 years ago

This evening I got a note from HINA, the Croatian press agency, declaring me "the best US expert for the…

Pleasant surprises but no firm conclusions

15 years ago

So I've returned to Pristina after an absence of eight years.  What have I found?  Let me say up front: …

A star in my firmament wobbles

15 years ago

In a report out Monday, International Crisis Group calls for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire, deployment of peacekeepers and negotiations with…

Half a Big Mac is not a smorgasbord

15 years ago

Jerry Gallucci over at Transconflict says Serbia is offering Kosovo a smorgasbord of possible solutions to the status question.  Looks…

Where are the patriots?

15 years ago

If nothing else, these weeks of protest and repression are demonstrating how tenaciously autocrats cling to power. This is not…