How to Win the Next Round in Syria By EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published September 16, 2013 Read online After talks last week in Geneva between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the U.S dilemma on Syria has been replaced…
Any serious peace plan needs to put security front and center By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and ELIZABETH O’BAGY Published August 29, 2013 Read online For more than two years, impassioned advocates have called for U.S. military intervention in Syria in order to advance a peace…
By AARON DAVID MILLER and EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published August 16, 2013 Read online The United States isn’t responsible for the recent violent confrontations in Egypt, but it is stunningly clear that the Obama administration’s approach to the Arab uprisings is in shambles. Cataclysmic upheavals…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and MICHAEL O’HANLON Published May 23, 2013 Read online The international community needs a better strategy for the intractable war in Syria. Washington and Moscow are jointly pushing for an international conference that would bring representatives of the Assad regime and…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and ELIZABETH O’BAGY Published May 22, 2013 Read online In a situation as complex as Syria’s, the search for parallels is understandable. Indeed, the current effort led by Secretary of State John Kerry to reach a diplomatic settlement draws its inspiration…
The status quo in the north is neither stable nor productive. Whatever responsibility Albanians have, Serbs must accept their own responsibility for the lack of perspective in the north. The duty of interested outsiders is to help the population see that its interests lie in…
Without a renewed push for Constitutional Reform, Bosnia will remain dangerously adrift – its politics a continuation of war by corrupt means. By BRUCE HITCHNER and EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published February 12, 2013 Read online With the European Union in crisis, it is remarkable that…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and ANGELO FEDERICO ARCELLI Published April 3, 2013 Read online Cyprus has – or, until last week, had – a lot of banks. It also has a lot of resort hotels. How appropriate that the best encapsulation of its crisis comes…
By CHRISTOPHER S. CHIVVIS and EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published February 26, 2013 Read online A brutal, internecine war drags on, pitting a determined dictator against an outgunned opposition. Hundreds of thousands are displaced, flooding into neighboring states. U.N. mediation falters as allies are divided among…
By EDWARD P. JOSEPH and ANGELO FEDERICO ARCELLI Published February 6, 2013 Read online Is the tide finally turning on the European financial crisis? According to conventional wisdom, the answer is yes. Citing recent reforms and a new bailout for Greece, there is growing optimism…