Europe has to go on a diet

16 years ago

President Obama scored points this week by supporting India's bid for a permanent (non-veto) seat on the 15-member UN Security…

Kerry still running

16 years ago

Even for the chair of Senate Foreign Relations, this is an unusually frenetic trip to important places. The envoy: Kerry…

Walt v. Bush

16 years ago

A healthy reminder of where we've been, but then it is hard to credit Walt's remark that Obama's "foreign policy...looks…

Hizbollah to fight zombie?

16 years ago

Marc Lynch thinks the Special ("Zombie") Tribunal for Lebanon lacks credibility, so why give it $10 million?  But the more…

Tell me the Senator isn’t running for SecState

16 years ago

Laura Rozen reviews Senator Kerry's visits to Khartoum, Beirut and Damascus.  Clearly well-coordinated with State, but also clearly calculated to…

Getting up to date on Iran

16 years ago

The place to start these days on Iran is Robin Wright's The Iran Primer.  The many short pieces therein are…

Bosnia votes for unity and division

16 years ago

I'll be speaking twice this week about Bosnia, once this afternoon via Skype to the conference in Dayton commemorating the…

Where, oh where, is the QDDR?

16 years ago

Announced with fanfare in July 2009 (The Department of State's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review) and rumored for many dates…

Kurdish unity frays

16 years ago

The reform-minded Gorran (Change) movement has defected with its eight seats from the broader 58-seat Kurdish coalition in the Iraqi…

What does the R-tsunami mean for peace?

16 years ago

Hard to tell of course, but money is going to be tight.  Aaron David Miller has already argued on the…