Jeffrey Laurenti
Jeffrey Laurenti is senior fellow at the Century Foundation.
- Opinion by Jeffrey Laurenti
- • June 8, 2012
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Kofi Annan was too diplomatic to say it in public, but his meaning as he “briefed” the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday on the continuing strife in Syria was unmistakable: Russia has failed. Annan’s plan to halt the…
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- Opinion by Jeffrey Laurenti
- • February 15, 2012
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Iran was the one country to stand up in support of Syria’s procedural challenge to the right of the UN General Assembly to debate the spiraling political violence back home, and with good reason: the aggressiveness with which the…
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- Opinion by Jeffrey Laurenti
- • February 7, 2012
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The failed vote in the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 4 over a resolution committing the UN to the Arab League’s Syria transition plan opens the door to an international free-for-all in which Syrian factions enlist foreign patrons,…
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