Kosovo elections preview: opportunity knocks

16 years ago

These elections are an opportunity. If they come off well, they will be an important step in validating Kosovo’s institutions…

Election purgatory, on the way to hell

16 years ago

No one should expect elections to be peaceful unless everyone in the game (and out of it) is prepared to…

Diplomatic ballet with Iran

16 years ago

Diplomats generally call this walking a tight rope. I prefer the ballet analogy. Or is it all really just a…

A diplomat’s guide to reading wikileaks

16 years ago

Here is an insider’s view of how to read them.

Where are the civilians when we need them?

16 years ago

I think what all of us need are agreed strategic endstates and frameworks rather than undirected coordination meetings.

Democracy in the balance? Iraq’s next government

16 years ago

Please see Event writeups or the Washington Institute website http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3280

The Brits are coming: DFID at Carnegie

16 years ago

Security and Development in Fragile States UK Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan

If not powersharing, what?

16 years ago

Please see event writeups.

Stay the course, smartly

16 years ago

start of the turnover to Afghan security forces in July 2011, completion by the end of 2014. It also imagines…

See event writeups: Pristina prepares for negotiations with Belgrade

16 years ago

Veton Surroi, president of the Foreign Policy Club in Pristina, told his audience at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International…