November 29, 2008

Goal of the Mumbai attacks: Sparking India-Pakistan war?

The perpetrators of the recent wave of anti-civilian (i.e. terror) attacks in Mumbai were evidently well organized and well prepared for their mission. It was almost certainly planned as a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:39 PM | Fulltext link (17 comments)

November 25, 2008

Iraq's international 'Contact group' becoming stronger?

The Security Cooperation and Coordination Committee of Iraq's neighboring countries held its third meeting in Damascus Sunday. This 'Contact Group' brings together representatives of the UN, the US, Iraq's neighbors...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:12 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 15, 2008

Discussing Afghanistan, UN over at Registan

I am continually amazed at the number of otherwise thoughtful and well-informed Americans who seem to have a deep blindspot when it comes to looking at the record of the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:01 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

September 17, 2008

Count Folke Bernadotte, RIP 9-17-1948

Read this and weep....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:54 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 15, 2008

Why Kosovo's independence bid is (Not) unique

CS Monitor today includes an interesting story about pending recognition of Kosovo's independence. The article is built around the theme that Kosovo's bid is somehow unique, that Kosovo has emerged...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 11:30 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

June 14, 2007

The US, the UN, and the world: The De Soto report

The London Guardian yesterday published the 52-page "End of Mission Report" written by the UN's recently retired envoy to the Middle East peace talks, Alvaro De Soto. De Soto reportedly...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:44 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

June 13, 2007

Final CSM column: on the US and the UN, in Iraq

So Thursday's CSM will be publishing the final column in the series I have published with them since 1990. It is here. (Also here.) In it, I write: Can Washington...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 07:29 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

April 10, 2007

Making Persian Gulf Security Durable (Ramazani)

FYI, here's a recently published short essay by R.K. Ramazani, as I mentioned in discussions here several days ago. Seeking to go beyond the immediate details of the recent UK-Iran...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 10:43 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

June 02, 2006

Article on East Timor in TomPaine.com

I have a piece on TomPaine.com today, about East Timor. It was a good experience working with them. Their turnround time on the piece was about one hour. So it...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:05 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

April 19, 2006

UNU symposium, war, peace, etc.

(Apologies to readers that the first version of this post was badly edited... It's hard to do all this on my modestly-sized laptop.... Now, it should be better. ~HC) So...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:08 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)