Category Archives: Current affairs

I’ve been reading Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the new book by Swanee Hunt who served as US Ambassador to Austria during the Bosnian War. She’s done terrific work in bringing gender into the discussion of violence, conflict … Continue reading →

I will be giving a talk at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University on Tuesday 1 November 2011 at noon entitled ‘After Ethnic Cleansing: Bosnian Lessons for the Caucasus?’ I will be following in the footsteps of Milorad Dodik, President … Continue reading →

The distinguished historian Melvyn Leffler presented his latest edited collection (with Jeffrey Legro) at the Woodrow Wilson Center yesterday: In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (Cornell UP). It brings together practitioners and academics, policy … Continue reading →

One of the joys, and also frustrations, of living in Washington DC is that there are so many interesting talks going on around town, and so many interesting people to see. Add to that the regular flow of interesting articles … Continue reading →

Over a year ago the British NGO Conciliation Resources asked me to write an essay as a starting point for a track two dialogue among a group of policy scholars from Armenia, Stepanakert and Azerbaijan on the question of ‘return … Continue reading →

On Friday last John O’Loughlin and I talked to a full seminar room at George Washington on our research findings in three of the Eurasian ‘De Facto States’ (the emergent consensual term among academics though this is at variance with … Continue reading →

John O’Loughlin and I will be talking on Friday May 20, 2001 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Voesar Conference Room, 1957 E Street, Suite 412 on our research on de facto states. The talk will be a ‘world … Continue reading →

The Association for the Study of Nationalities conference in New York is one of the best conferences out there for students of the intersections of geopolitics, identity and conflict. This year’s conference was excellent: very stimulating panels and sessions with … Continue reading →