The capture of Radovan Karadzic offers hope for the future of Serbia

Local magistrates are losing powers of discretion in sentencing

Lebanon's celebration of a brutal killer's release illustrates the extent - and the limitations - of Hizbullah's power

Why we should fear the consequences of an Obama presidency for Europe's unstable periphery

Barack Obama sounds troublingly like an "America Firster"

The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan

British politicians are ignoring Iraq just when it needs us most

The mysterious appeal of Alan Furst's 'historical espionage' novels

In Search of the English Eccentric by Henry Hemming

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker