Hedging by Rejection: Divining Saudi Arabia’s Surprise UN Security Council About Face for Clues of Regional Realignments
By Allison Beth Hodgkins In a region where everything seems to be standing on its head and doing…
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Learning from Afghanistan: Multilateralism is Hard
By Steve Saideman The old saying is that success has a thousand fathers but that failure is an orphan.…
Germany and NATO Reform? Please
By Steve Saideman Germany gets far more grief than it should for under-performing in Afghanistan. Italy, Hungary, Turkey…
The Four Things We Know About How Civil Wars End (and What This Tells Us About Syria)
By Barbara F. Walter The Obama Administration continues to insist that it would like to see a diplomatic solution…
Decoding What Human Rights Groups Said About Syria
By Sarah Bush During the past month, political pundits have not been the only people disagreeing vociferously about…
Peace Overtures from Iran?
By Barbara F. Walter This past Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made a somewhat surprising speech in which…
The Logic Behind Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons
By Barbara F. Walter Last week I asked why Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons even after Obama had drawn…
Oslo’s Enduring Commitment Problem
By Allison Beth Hodgkins Why would anyone want to read another analysis of the commitment problems lurking in…
Why the CW Inspection Plan Doesn’t Have to be Perfect, or Even Close, to Succeed
By Page Fortna As the Obama administration and the world contemplate a plan to secure Syria’s chemical weapons,…
When Diplomacy Means More War
By Barbara F. Walter Admit it. We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard that President…