Long reads Beyond Castle Bremer’s walls Inside the Baghdad "bubble", Americans stay optimistic. They should get out more By Peter Beaumont
A nation made for war When a rifle-bearing soldier takes on a stone-throwing Palestinian boy, the Israelis see nothing wro By Peter Beaumont
Familiar mistakes in the Balkans Memories are too short: the west should have learnt not to play with imagined ethnic spaces. Peter B By Peter Beaumont