Somehow this invitation to a discussion of India/Pakistan relations prompts me to ask a different but related question: how should…
The United States today joined 32 other countries at what is being called a "contact group" meeting in Istanbul in…
I've got a paper coming out on Libya over at the Council on Foreign Relations in the next couple of…
As I thought I might be giving a talk this week about the Balkans, I prepared the following text, which…
The Atlantic Wire has usefully assembled all the occasions on which Muammar Gaddafi has indicated he will step down. Obviously…
Well into July and still no Baghdad decision on whether to ask the Americans to keep some troops in Iraq…
The Syrian government is so anxious to keep order in Hama, where the American ambassador Friday expressed solidarity with the…
I won't claim it is due to what I asked three days ago on peacefare.net (where are the diplomats?), but…
Independence happened at midnight. Statehood and sovereignty will take decades more. For South Sudan this is as much opportunity…
In Libya and Yemen, presidents are hanging on way past their "use by" date. Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared today on…