The unresolved status of this mountainous region continues to poison relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Author: Walter Kemp
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Peace polling can build confidence among the parties, and give the public a sense of ownership in the peace process.
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To figure out who the criminals are, their impact, and what to do about them, peace operations need detailed knowledge about peace spoilers.
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The problem with recapturing a sense of cooperation within the Euro-Atlantic region is not the lack of political will, but the lack of common aims.
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Recent Security Council debates on the Sahel and the Gulf of Guinea highlight a worrying trend that crime in West Africa is spreading.
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If opium cultivation has been limited to areas of the country under the control of the Taliban, what will happen when the International Security Assistance Force withdraws?
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The idea of a European security community will only gain traction if civil society and a wide spectrum of Europe’s security-related institutions embrace the idea. Fresh thinking from outside the organization can help introduce new ideas.
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Václav Havel’s passing reminds us that autocratic regimes eventually succumb to the virus of the truth.
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There are signs that the “frozen” conflict between the Republic of Moldova and the “Dniestrian Moldovan Republic” may be thawing. At a meeting in Moscow on September 22nd, the parties agreed to resume official consultations on (to quote the communiqué) the “permanent meeting on political questions in the framework of the negotiation process on the […]