Bill Emmott, the former editor of The Economist, has a great – if glibly-titled – piece in The Times today, articulating what I have thought for a while (OK –...
Daniel Korski
Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen as well as in the United States. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Project on National Security Forum.
Wrong on Afghan drugs
Thomas Schweich, previously the Bush administration’s Afghan drugs “czar” has made a big splash in the New York Times by claiming that President Hamid Karzai...
Karadzic Goes Down!!!!!
As Richard's reported, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of being responsible for the massacre of more than 100.000 Bosnian Muslims during...
No UK Civilian Reserve Corps?
A new draft study is about to be presented to the British Prime Minister, which will suggest ways to improve what’s now being called “civilian effects” i.e....
U.S Civilian Response Corps: good, but not enough
After several years, the U.S government finally unveiled a new personnel cadre - the Civilian Response Corps of the United States of America – who will...
Zimbabwe veto says as much about US and UK as Russia
The Russian and Chinese veto of UNSC sanctions against Zimbabwe may in hindsight have been predicable, even inevitable, but on day of the vote they came as a...
Bush, Obama and McCain on Afghanistan
Bush, Obama and McCain have in the last few days all talked about Pakistan and Afghanistan. In my view all three shirk the need for 1) a new political...
Knife crime, shared awareness & counter-insurgency
The recent spate of knife-killings in London and the British government’s response illustrates the continuing problems policy-makers face in dealing with...
Military Morale — Up And Down!
Today’s defence news is a new survey showing that British soldiers – and the British army – are operating at breaking point. In the Army, 59 per cent of those...
Age of continents?
Having just read Alex and David’s new paper, I wonder whether the we have not moved away from an Age of Nation-States to an Age of Continents? I don’t mean...
Privatize an embassy. I dare you
The privatization of diplomacy is nothing new. Large lobbying firms function in many respects like diplomatic services. Hill and Knowlton, for example,...
CSI War Crimes?
Today Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim commander, was cleared on appeal of crimes committed during the Bosnian War. The Appeals Chamber of the UN's International...
The EU should embrace the Gulf
A once-in-a-generation power shift is taking place in the Middle East with the rise of Iran. As the U.S is temporarily distracted in the run-up to the...
Europe’s next crisis
Crisis is nothing new to the European Union. In fact, crises have made the EU’s foreign policy what it is, filling most of Javier Solana’s office hours. But...
New Serbian government imminent
The Pro-European Serb President, Boris Tadic announced yesterday that talks to form a governing coalition with the Socialist Party would begin. Several weeks...
Back in Belgrade
I’m back in Belgrade after seven years. Last time I was here, Milosevic had recently been overthrown and sent to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague;...
Still saving global Europe
As European foreign ministers settle down to what must be one of their most uncomfortable meetings this year, my colleague Ulrike Guerot and I try to remind...
Saving global Europe
As predicted here, Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty. Over on the ECFR website I have tried to lay out what I think European leaders should now do: To keep...
“Cliqueness” and policy development
The resignation of David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, in protest over the 42-day detention vote in Parliament, was followed by a number of stories about...
Are our cities going feral?
Reading Alex’s argument about the hollowing-out of governmental authority, I am reminded of Richard Norton’s term a “feral city”, something he defines as a...
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