Roland Flamini
Roland Flamini was the Washington-based chief international correspondent at United Press International from 2000 to 2006.
From 1968 to 1994, he was a foreign correspondent and World Section editor for Time magazine. During that time he was bureau chief in Rome, Bonn, Paris, Lebanon, and Jerusalem, and covered the European community from London.
He is now a foreign policy columnist for CQ Weekly, and also a regular contributor on arts and culture for Town & Country magazine, Architectural Digest, WashingtonLife, and other publications.
He is working on his eighth non-fiction book, a biography of Edmond Charles Genet.
Articles written by Roland Flamini
By Roland Flamini
14 Sep 2010 |
Trend Lines
Reaction in the Mediterranean to BP's plans to start drilling five
off-shore wells off the Libyan Gulf of Sirte in October has been surprisingly low key given the British oil giant's recent track record in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Roland Flamini
10 Sep 2010 |
Trend Lines
Perhaps because there was so much to digest in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's review
of the Obama administration's foreign policy at the Council on Foreign
Relations in Washington on Wednesday, her olive branch to Europe has
been largely overlooked.
By Roland Flamini
04 Aug 2010 |
Trend Lines
It turns out that without the Iraq war, the U.S. could well have found itself fighting in Afghanistan without NATO.
By Roland Flamini
08 Jul 2010 |
Trend Lines
President Barack Obama used an
interview with the Milan daily Corriere della Sera
to counter his reputation for being indifferent toward Europe, and even
anti-European.
By Roland Flamini
06 Jul 2010 |
Trend Lines
Hillary Clinton's inclusion of Azerbaijan in her current round of
diplomatic visits underlines the increased importance to the U.S.
of good bilateral relations in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
By Roland Flamini
22 Jun 2010 |
WPR Blog
A Congressional report detailing how taxpayer
money is
going into the pockets of Afghan warlords
in return for protecting NATO truck convoys has drawn attention to the immense logistical problem of resupplying NATO forces there.
By Roland Flamini
16 Jun 2010 |
WPR Blog
If the new turmoil in Kyrgyzstan spreads, Russia
could play a central role in stabilizing the country,
raising the question of whether the Manas airbase could once again be jeopardized.
By Roland Flamini
10 Jun 2010 |
WPR Blog
Wednesday's "No" votes by Brazil and Turkey against the U.S.-driven Iran
sanctions resolution in the U.N. Security Council was a milestone in
the shift to a multipolar world.
By Roland Flamini
24 May 2010 |
WPR Blog
When the Iranian revolution against the Shah Reza Pahlavi reached
critical mass in late-1978, the United States found itself with very
limited political leverage in Iran because of a longstanding U.S.
commitment to ignore the country's opposition politicians.
By Roland Flamini
21 May 2010 |
WPR Blog
To no one's surprise, least of all the European Union, Britain's new
foreign secretary,
William Hague, opted to visit Washington before
setting foot in Brussels.
By Roland Flamini
14 May 2010 |
WPR Blog
Cameron may be a Conservative, but he is no heir to Thatcherism.
By Roland Flamini
07 May 2010 |
WPR Blog
On Thursday, the British electorate was asked to make its choice
of who would run the country for the next four years. They gave a
muffled and incoherent answer.
By Roland Flamini
07 May 2010 |
WPR Blog
When Pope Benedict XVI goes to Cyprus on June 4-6, at stake will be the
future of Christianity in the Middle East.
By Roland Flamini
05 Apr 2010 |
WPR Blog
The Vatican used the celebrations of Easter week to stage a
counteroffensive in the pedophilia scandal that has challenged its very
center.
By Roland Flamini
29 Mar 2010 |
WPR Blog
There are still more Iraqi refugees leaving their country than returning
to it.
By Roland Flamini
18 Mar 2010 |
WPR Blog
What the Vatican refers to as the delictum gravius (grave sin) has turned
out to be not just an American aberration.
By Roland Flamini
09 Mar 2010 |
WPR Blog
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks in calm, measured tones,
but he is clearly determined to do what it takes to pull the
debt-crushed remnants of his country's economy out of the fire.
By Roland Flamini
08 Mar 2010 |
WPR Blog
How to get Washington's attention.
By Roland Flamini
22 Feb 2010 |
WPR Blog
Greece's financial crisis has brought to the surface the residual
North versus South prejudice that lurks in the European Union.
By Roland Flamini
11 Feb 2010 |
WPR Blog
The Iron Lady faces Question Time.