The Protests in Macedonia are Only the Beginning. By Edward P. Joseph May 10, 2015 Read Online ike most terrorists, he was young. He had been born in the days just before bitter hatred engulfed his country; not long after his birth, his father had…
Why the United States Should Not Accept Russia’s Plan in Syria. By Edward P. Joseph September 29, 2015 Read Online “We have no dog in that fight,” U.S. Secretary of State James Baker famously said on the eve of the wars that would tear through…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published July 10, 2015 Read Online Amir’s voice, patched through to the United Nations base in Tuzla from the eastern Bosnian enclave in Srebrenica, was faint, but his fear came through in nauseating clarity. It was July 1995, and the…
By MICHAEL O’HANLON and EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published July 4, 2014 Read online As Iraq spirals toward chaos and its Kurdish region talks independence, the issue of partition, or federalism, has resurfaced. This is a concept that then-Senator Joe Biden strongly advocated in 2006. Though it would…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and JANUSZ BUGAJSKI June 26, 2014 Read online Imagine that you lead a small Balkan country that ardently aspires to join Western institutions. But your country also has long-standing cultural and economic ties to Russia, akin to those that have riven…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published May 1, 2014 Read online Nothing confounds the Western response to Russian aggression in Ukraine more than its incremental character. By shrewdly focusing on one localized crisis at a time, camouflaging the role of Russian forces, and contriving pretexts to…
How Putin could achieve all of his designs on Ukraine — without sending a single tank across the border. By EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published April 24, 2014 Read Online With the threat of a Russian invasion still heavy in the air of eastern Ukraine, it’s…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and MAMUKA TERESTELI Published March 14, 2014 Read Online When President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev two weeks ago, the over-arching question was what would the Russians do? Now that Moscow has invaded Crimea and appears poised to formally absorb the territory…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and MAMUKA TSERETELI Published February 28, 2014 Read online The stunning abdication of President Viktor Yanukovych has broken Ukraine’s bloody impasse while opening up a passel of questions about the future of the deeply divided country. Chief among them, naturally, is…
Spreading protests mean that the EU and US must urgently produce a completely new yet practical plan to resolve Bosnia’s longstanding deadlock. By EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published February 7, 2014 Read online As angry protests against hardship and hopelessness spread across whole swathes of Bosnia-Herzegovina,…