A soggy version of the Arab spring

13 years ago

Big Carnegie Endowment/Harvard discussion of Arab Spring yesterday.  Outcome:  pretty gloomy.  But these are experts, who admittedly failed to see…

After Pristina, Sarajevo

13 years ago

After Pristina, where I'll visit next week, I am headed for Sarajevo.  I confess I've lost track of how long…

Heading for Pristina

13 years ago

I am heading in June to Kosovo for the first time since 2003, when my colleagues and I at the…

Memorial Day for all

13 years ago

I spent my high school years marching in the Memorial Day parade in New Rochelle, New York and have never…

Après eux?

13 years ago

President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen and non-president of Libya Muammar Gaddafi will soon be gone.   They have cracked their…

In weakness strength

13 years ago

On reflection a day after the fact, I'd like to reiterate what Kurt Bassuener has already eloquently asserted: the arrest…

Afghanistan matters

13 years ago

I find it hard to give full credit to what David Ignatius perceives as "positive signs" in Afghanistan.  There have…

At last!

13 years ago

Ratko Mladic has been arrested, in Serbia, details still unknown. President Tadic is quoted by the New York Times: Extradition…

Not if but when

13 years ago

A May 25 first-rate panel on Syria at the Carnegie Endowment had a clear bottom line:  Bashar al Assad might…

May 25 Yugo-nostalgia, not

13 years ago

A former Yugoslav friend writes: May 25th was celebrated as Tito's birthday, and was known as Youth Day. They used…