The old saying that a deal satisfying neither side involved in it must be a good deal does not apply to the text Western diplomacy (finally) published and forced on Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic and ...

On 12 July 2018, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to the text of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration after more than a year of discussions among Member States, ...

Milan Radoicic’s botched raid against Kosovo was a colossal blunder. Images of a Serbian gunman holding a gun on a Serbian Orthodox monk and Radoicic himself at the monastery he ran to after his ...

It remains an open question whether differing ethnic and/or religious groups – tribes if you will – can share a state without conflict turning into ethnic cleansing. Since antiquity, history offers ...

Over the last two decades or so, the world has regarded Somalia as the most troubled region in the horn of Africa. The once peaceful and prosperous country is now plagued by conflict, violence and ...

Establishing punishment and appeasement as end points of a stochastic policy spectrum does not lead to constructive outcomes. What happens when a state suffers the label of international villain but ...

The recent turmoil in North Kosovo over Pristina’s use of police to impose minority (Albanian) mayors there has had led to a sea change in the Quint approach. These erstwhile supporters of Kosovo ...

Pristina has again sought to subdue northern Kosovo by force. NATO should have acted to prevent such efforts. Having failed to do so, NATO has two choices, to escort Pristina’s police back south of ...

Tensions are rising again in north Kosovo. Serbia has reportedly put its forces on alert. Continuing conflict over the northern, predominately Serbian, municipalities (including North Mitrovica) owes ...

North Kosovo is once again – and as always – the center of conflict between Serbs and Serbia and the Kosovo government and its nationalist Albanian leadership. The Western countries that sanctioned ...

European notables owe an apology to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. For years they have been demanding he bring his country’s foreign and security policies in line with those of the EU (assuming ...

Under Article 24 of the United Nations Charter, the UN Security Council (UNSC) has “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.” Chapter Seven, Article 41 gives the ...