Bridging the Gulf

10 years ago

Cinzia Bianco, an analyst for the "Mediterranean and Gulf" programme at NATO Defence College Foundation whom I met on a…

A better place to start from

10 years ago

More or less half of American voters will cast their ballots for the Republicans in 2016, so it behooves us…

Iraq’s Sunnis

10 years ago

Someone asked me last week to introduce a discussion of Iraq's Sunnis. Here are the speaking notes I used: 1.…

Peace picks April 6 – 10

10 years ago

The Kurds: Strategic Partners in the Fight Against ISIS? | Monday April 6 | 9:00 – 11:00 | Bipartisan Policy…

Tighten your seat belts

10 years ago

Yesterday's unprecedented framework for a nuclear accord with Iran sets back the clock in two different ways:  it would put…

Unprecedented

10 years ago

Caveats and qualifications. This is only a "framework" agreement. A lot of details are still missing, and that's where the…

Macedonia and Europe

10 years ago

In addition to the remarks of Ambassador Alexandros Mallis and me, last weekend's conference of the Democratic Union for Integration in…

What stalled Lausanne

10 years ago

I did gigs for both CCTV and CNBC Asia yesterday on the Iran nuclear deal. I'm pleased with how this…

A Greek in Skopje

10 years ago

As regular readers know, I spoke last Saturday via Skype to the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) conference in Skopje.…

Deal or no deal

10 years ago

Everyone is anticipating a nuclear deal with Iran today, or not. Either way it is the big news. I'd bet…