Once the new government is fully formed and approved in the Council of Representatives (parliament), the Prime Minister would do…
Chas Freeman argues in the New York Times this morning that leaked Arab appeals to the U.S. for military action…
the popular struggle against the regime seems to be quiescent for the moment: best we use this time to make…
There is talk of a negotiated settlement of Abyei's fate, to be reached in talks led by former South African…
Juan Cole helpfully provides a map of the Ottoman Empire, 1798-1923, under the heading "the real background of the modern…
This is from a BBC interview, as reported by Foreign Policy: Hillary Clinton says We've told them that they are…
Conditionality is easier said than done. It is not good strategy when your own vital interests are at stake, and…
Simon Henderson at the Washington Institute has a sharper eye than I do, as he detected this from SecState Clinton…
ICG would have done better to go where its analysis points: drawdown, presumably on the currently agreed NATO schedule.