[escenic_image id="5542814"]Last week, Afghanistan held its first major peace conference. It didn’t start out well. The Taliban fired a couple of…

[escenic_image id="5570318"]In March, when the Israeli government defied US President Barack Obama’s peace efforts by announcing it would build…

[escenic_image id="5567722"]The Middle East has emerged from the recent global economic crisis in better shape than most other regions. It…

[escenic_image id="5567032"]Nawshirwan Mustafa is a prominent Kurdish politician, and currently the leader of Goran, the Movement for Change. The co…

[escenic_image id="5566566"] How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace Charles Kupchan Princeton University Press, 2010 Hard…

[escenic_image id="5566251"]Unwilling to yield international real estate under the control of the Pentagon, President Barack Obama has just crushed…

[escenic_image id="5564559"]In 2005, Ramzan Kadyrov, the then prime minister of Chechnya famously declared that the republic was “the most peaceful…

[escenic_image id="5563871"]Prince Turki Al Faisal holds no official position in the Saudi government. But as ex-intelligence chief, former…

[escenic_image id="5563721"]James B. Smith is a retired US Air Force Brigadier General who has served as US ambassador to Riyadh since September 2009…

[escenic_image id="5562322"]This week was penciled in to be historic. The heads of state of 43 Mediterranean countries—including Israel, the…