Laura Rozen reviews Senator Kerry's visits to Khartoum, Beirut and Damascus. Clearly well-coordinated with State, but also clearly calculated to…
The place to start these days on Iran is Robin Wright's The Iran Primer. The many short pieces therein are…
I'll be speaking twice this week about Bosnia, once this afternoon via Skype to the conference in Dayton commemorating the…
Announced with fanfare in July 2009 (The Department of State's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review) and rumored for many dates…
The reform-minded Gorran (Change) movement has defected with its eight seats from the broader 58-seat Kurdish coalition in the Iraqi…
Hard to tell of course, but money is going to be tight. Aaron David Miller has already argued on the…
It is always difficult to get a fix on negotiations that necessarily occur behind the scenes, even if "secret" is…
Sudan's two referenda--in the South and in Abyei--on January 9 are in the Rift Valley Institute's words "the most critical…
Scott Atran may think even the Haqqani network can be turned against al Qaeda, but Jeffrey Kressler over at the…
The Baghdad rumor mill today is putting the Kurds in Maliki's camp, which would put him over the top arithmetically. …