I'm having a difficult time understanding what Stephen Walt means by this : [Wednesday] we learn that Iran is resupplying the Assad re...

Two events this week -- the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the death of Christopher Hitchens -- have brought to mind something that...

Things have been busy around here lately, so in lieu of a substantive post here's some links: -- Dani Rodrik vs. Turkey . This has been ...

Wow. Fred Kaplan goes full-bore on Rumsfeld, in a review of his new memoir and legacy. I'm not going to excerpt it; you really need to ...

I'm back after spending a few days in the mountains with spotty internet access, so blogging should return to normal. Back in September...

I recently heard that the sanctions against Iraq have not yet been lifted, and won't be until the Iraqi government pays the U.S. governm...

Tom Ricks ftw : Five gunmen attacked an American military convoy south of Baghdad. The troops were not "combat troops," so they us...

An Iraqi blogger is getting frustrated with the inability of its leaders to form a government following the March election, and has an inge...

For those curious about the recent Iraq election and what it means, Juan Cole is always a reliable source.

Via Blattman , here's the abstract of a new NBER working paper [pdf]: Between 2004 and 2009, Iraq’s currency experienced a massive real...

Christopher Dittmeier, a fellow graduate student at UNC, recently published an article in Georgetown's Democracy and Society on the iss...