T K Vogel — research & analysis

International policy has failed to keep Pakistan and Palestine from inching closer to the brink: both are potential failed states and both could take their entire region down with them, especially nuclear-armed Pakistan. For once, the intellectually lazy response – to blame it on the Americans – is correct.
The basic American mistake in dealing with […]

NATO’s response to a possible flare-up of violence in Kosovo could be hampered by bad communication with the EU, diplomats in Brussels have warned.
Communication between NATO and the EU, which have largely overlapping membership, is good in the field but dysfunctional at the political level, according to officials and experts.
This could undercut NATO’s 16,000-strong peacekeeping […]

Serbia will not be able to sign a pre-accession pact with the EU if it continues interfering in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, Olli Rehn, the European commissioner in charge of enlargement, has said.The commissioner also urged Bosnia’s politicians not to listen to the “siren calls from Belgrade or Moscow”.
The warning came less than a week […]