Post-Qaddafi Libya

13 years ago

I'm traveling tonight, so I'm putting up tomorrow's blog post today: Politicians don’t like to answer hypothetical questions, but analysts…

Anyone still think it was the downgrade?

13 years ago

Yesterday's sharp bump upwards on the stock market following the Fed's announcement that it would keep interest rates low for…

Forget the downgrade

13 years ago

Forget the downgrade. It really is a non-event given the decline in U.S. government bond rates.  If the world is…

Is Macedonia better off with Ohrid?

13 years ago

I am hoping to be in Ohrid Saturday.  Here is an interview I did with Slobodanka Jovanovska of Utrinski Vesnik,…

Making Bashar al Assad history

13 years ago

As Marc Lynch points out in a tweet this morning, the region is belatedly beginning to react to regime violence…

Back to Pristina

13 years ago

I'm headed again to Pristina this week, where I'll focus mainly on northern Kosovo issues. That's the 11% of its…

Half a loaf isn’t really enough

13 years ago

OK, this isn't the most stirring announcement this month from the White House, but Michael Abramowitz is right to call…

His pants are still on fire

13 years ago

May this be the last time I post this lying bastard's nonsense: Already in March his pants were on fire.…

Roadblocks with more than one significance

13 years ago

Herewith an interview I did for Bekim Greicevci of Kosovo's Daily Express on the situation in northern Kosovo (you can…

Crouching tiger, hidden dragon

13 years ago

Now that the UN Security Council has at least condemned the regime violence in Syria, everybody is looking for President…