Balance-of-power geopolitics alive and well

Turkey has raised the stakes on Syria by reminding Nato countries of their treaty responsibilities, but no country or group is willing to act first, writes Anne-Marie Slaughter

A longer-term resolution of the Syrian crisis depends as much on Turkey and the Arab League as it does on the US, Europe, and Russia.

THE conventional wisdom last week on whether Syria would comply with former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan’s ceasefire plan was that it was up to Russia.