JONATHAN STEELE, an international affairs columnist, has been Moscow bureau chief and chief foreign correspondent for the Guardian. The British Press Awards named him international reporter of the year in 1981 for his coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Jackson Diehl on sectarianism in Syria, Elliott Abrams and Robert Wexler on Iran's nuclear threat, and John Rosenthal on Germany and the origins of the euro crisis. Plus US-Pakistan relations, academia's new communism, Spain's economy, and more...