On January 14th Kazakhstan announced its priorities for the 2010 Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an organization that now spans 56 countries and encompasses all of Europe together with the United States, Canada, and each of the...

The second issue of the Wider Europe publication from the Lavrentis Lavrentiadis Chair in Southeast European Studies.

Q1: What do we want to see emerge from the ministerial?

A1: Early drafts of the communiqué coming out of the ministerial in London suggest that a new organization called the “Friends of Yemen Contact Group” will...

Q1: How did this impasse come about?

A1: In 2006, the United States and Japan reached an agreement on the realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, including the relocation of U.S. forces on the island of Okinawa. The latter involved a...

Q1: What were the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, and the new EU high representative for foreign policy, Lady Catherine Ashton, doing in Washington last week?

A1: Unfortunately, the understandable and extensive media...

Q1: What is the London Conference?

A1: It is an international meeting that the British government is hosting, in partnership with the government of Afghanistan and the United Nations. Scheduled for Thursday, January 28, 2010, it...

The London Ministerial on Yemen, occurring January 27th, is a welcome opportunity for the international community together with the Yemeni government to think through the question: Is there a way for the international community to help Yemen address its development and...

Almost two weeks since a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, the fate of this tiny nation has captured the world’s attention. With death toll estimates over 200,000 persons, and injured reaching double that amount, it is not certain whether the government of Haiti...

As President Obama leads the campaign to work toward a world without nuclear weapons, ongoing activities in Iran and North Korea suggest that the world may be headed in the opposite direction. On November 3, 2009, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Lawrence Livermore...

Building on its work of the last several years, the CSIS HIV Prevention Working Group organized in the summer of 2009 a consultation on “Revisiting U.S. Approaches to HIV Prevention.” The discussion brought together more than 20 HIV-prevention experts to review...