Dear Hashim,

9 years ago

The Kosovo parliament yesterday elected Hashim Thaci President, to be inaugurated in April. Here is what I have to say…

The cessation of hostilities that won’t

9 years ago

I'm getting press queries about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, which goes into effect a midnight Damascus time tonight.…

No one gets dragged into NATO

9 years ago

Vladimir Filipović of Belgrade daily Blic asked me some questions about the US bombing in Libya that killed, among others,…

Moscow’s steps toward strategic defeat

9 years ago

It would be hard to do better on Syria this morning than listening to this NPR report on Aleppo: But…

A cessation of hostilities unlikely to last

9 years ago

It took a week or two, but the US and Russia have finally come up with a joint statement whose…

Russia loses

9 years ago

I spoke this morning at a session on the Middle East of the SAIS conference on Russian Foreign Policy: New…

DRC election

9 years ago

SAIS student Qifan Huang reports: Last Wednesday, the SAIS African Studies Program hosted an event discussing the upcoming election in…

Peace Picks February 22-26

9 years ago

Stalin’s “Revolution from Above”: Property Seizure in the Perm Region | Tuesday, February 23rd | 10:00-11:00 | Wilson Center |…

The proverbial fly on the wall

9 years ago

Here is what a fly on the wall heard yesterday in a well-informed, but not attributable, discussion of Iraq. The…

Iran needs more than sanctions lifted

9 years ago

On Wednesday, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the…