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May 8, 2013
Conflict Prevention
Ending Syria’s Agony: Lessons from Other Civil Wars
Tuesday’s agreement between Moscow and Washington to convene an international conference on Syria raises some obvious questions. After a brutal conflict that has killed more than seventy thousand, is…
June 28, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: World Powers Talk Syria, Mexicans Vote, and Congress Recesses
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon was out this week, so Stewart Patrick kindly offered to fill in. Stewart and I discussed the world powers crisis meeting on Syria in Geneva; the Mexican…
February 29, 2016
Syria
The Syria "Cease Fire"
The Syrian American Council last week distributed a memorandum, whose full text is below, about the new cease fire that has been negotiated between John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov, and other parties. The C…
September 12, 2013
International Organizations
Russia’s Syria Initiative: Beware Strangers Bearing Gifts
Moscow has seized the initiative in the increasingly dizzying diplomacy over Syria’s chemical weapons (CW). By picking up on Secretary of State John Kerry’s offhand remark—that Damascus might avoid a…
September 19, 2013
The World Next Week: Syria Faces a Chemical Weapons Deadline, UN General Assembly Convenes for Its 68th Session, and Germans Vote for Chancellor
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will meet his commitments on chemical weapons, the start of another session of the United Natio…
