David L. Phillips
- Yermi Brenner
- • April 24, 2013
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One of the most complicated dynamics in international relations is whether foreign powers should intervene when a government is creating a humanitarian crisis among its own people. David L. Phillips, a former a senior adviser to the United States…
- Categories: Human Rights, Peace and Security
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- Irwin Arieff
- • March 21, 2013
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International crises are not always resolved on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. Sometimes breakthroughs come around a table at a restaurant that is continents away. Or they fall in place because of a thoughtful gesture made by…
- Categories: BOOKS, UN Diplomats
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- Yermi Brenner
- • February 19, 2013
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Thousands of people packed the streets of Pristina this past weekend, celebrating as Kosovo marked five years of independence. But in the municipalities of northern Kosovo, few people were rejoicing. Thirteen years after Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader whose…
- Categories: General Assembly, Peace and Security