CESRAN Int.

By Dr. Guy Burton | 26 July 2010 Relations between Colombia and Venezuela appear to have hit a new low. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed by Venezuela's government following...

 By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 23 July 2010   Does the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence Resolve Anything? I always tell my students that,...

By Prof. Stefan Wolff | 18 June 2010   Ever since the Pentagon announced that it estimated Afghanistan to sit on around $1 trillion of minerals, including iron ore, copper, cobalt, gold,...

By Peter Berger | 22 July 2010 Israel was established as both a democratic and a Jewish state. Both qualities continue to be real enough. But there have been increasing tensions between...

By Walter Russell Mead | 23 July 2010 During the next two weeks I'll be visiting Pakistan at the invitation of the US Embassy there. I won't be there to toe the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 July 2010 Current public policy debates in Armenia and Azerbaijan over a possible Nagorno-Karabakh war are more acceptable to those who want to return to their homes...

By Peter Berger | 17 July 2010 A Chinese sage defined a wise person as one who sees things together which others see as apart. Writing a blog implies the presumption of at least...

By Alexander Christie-Miller | 17 July 2010 On the picturesque island of Buyukada in the Marmara Sea about an hour’s ferry ride from Istanbul, tourists climb a steep track through pine trees...

By Gregorio Bettiza | 05 July 2010 While conducting fieldwork in Washington DC this summer, I was struck by the many complaints about President Obama’s lack of interest in pursuing liberal values abroad. “Those working...

By Paul Hockenos | 02 July 2010 For decades, no one in Germany took much notice of the imported Islamic holy men in their midst. Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs sent imams...

By Walter Russell Mead | 23 June 2010 Most of the headlines that blare at us from newspaper pages and internet sites are noise.  Much of the breathless commentary that we get...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 24 June 2010 And so another statement, accompanied by a picture of the two men warmly greeting each other, from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. The...

By Dr. Guy Burton | 18 June 2010 What role and impact do women have on politics and international affairs? Nearly a century ago, when suffragettes demanded the vote, a number of...

By James Traub | 16 June 2010 My son wants to study a non-European language that's going to matter in the future. He has been contemplating Arabic or Hindi. But after the...

By Prof. Scott Lucas | 14 June 2010 There has been a lot of media furour over the last 48 hours about a new report about the relationship between Pakistan’s Inter Services...