Do interventions work? With the vicissitudes of the Iraq and Afghanistan interventions and conflict returning to the Balkans, it is hard to answer in the...
Daniel Korski
Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen as well as in the United States. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Project on National Security Forum.
I’m shocked, shocked to find corruption
Audit results of Iraq’s 2007 oil sales and revenue flow conducted by Ernst & Young questioned 13.8 million barrels of oil produced but unaccounted for...
Intervention Blues
Simon Jenkins has a good piece in the Sunday Times about the decreasing willingness to contemplate humanitarian intervention. The humanitarian creed, he...
EU Treaty under threat
“It’s deja vu all over again”, as the famous U.S baseball player Yogi Berra said. The latest polls show Irish voters' getting ready to reject the Lisbon...
Ending Afghanistan’s drug fix
A few weeks ago, Charlie suggested that Afghanistan's opium economy might benefit from skyrocketing food prices. But the trajectory is unlikely to change, as...
Soldiering and European society
General Richard Dannat, the head of the British army, once remarked that the British Armed Forces are less understood and less honoured for their commitment...
No, Minister
Last night I had dinner with a group of security experts and sat next to Chatham House's Robin Niblett . We got to talking about the role of Ministers and how...
Iran file re-activated
After a period of silence on the “Iran file”, the P5+1 will present Tehran with a new incentive package to convince the Iranians to suspend their enrichment...
New Afghan strategy needed
Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, just finished a trip to Afghanistan, which probably happened at the same time as Taliban gunmen...
No COIN please, we’re British
Despite having practically invented modern counter-insurgency, today Britain is woefully ill-equipped for this kind of complex, mosaic-style warfare. The...
Viral in the Balkans
Nothing is more viral than a political gaffe – just ask Hilary Clinton. But what about EU accession policy? Well, in the Balkans anything goes. Twenty days...
Kissinger calling
For three weeks, Europe’s "big men" have been polishing off their CVs in the hope of getting one of the new top EU jobs to be created if the Lisbon Treaty...
National security reform, U.S-style
Yesterday, Congress heard testimony from James Locher III – the head of the Project on National Security Reform and the organisational genius behind the 1986...
General merry-go-round
Today American Defence Secretary Robert Gates recommended that General David Petraeus be appointed head of US Central Command. Until Admiral William Fallon...
Barroso goes to China
Later in the week half of the European Commission will go to Beijing. Playing Kissinger to EU President Barroso's Nixon, Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson...
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