QUENTIN PEEL
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Quentin Peel is international affairs editor of the Financial Times. He is also an associate editor, responsible for leader and feature writing, and writes a foreign affairs column, Between The Lines.
Quentin has worked at the FT since 1975. Between 1976 and 1994 he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London he became foreign editor. He took up his present position in September 1998.
He was born in July 1948 and educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he studied economics, with French and German. He is married, with five children. - -
Hopes of a legal solution are slim
Small wonder that Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, looked pleased with himself when he met Nicolas Sarkozy, his French counterpart, at Meiendorf castle, a...
Prospects for a legal block on ethnic cleansing are slim
Georgia has launched a case against Russia at the ICJ over allegations of ethnic cleansing, which it denies. But the chances of a ruling taking flight seem unlikely, writes Quentin Peel
A confusion of ‘peacekeepers’
There is no chance Russia will pull all its troops out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Moscow has imposed its own “security arrangements” and any international negotiations would seem to be an exercise in futility
A huge civilian crisis for a tiny nation
Thousands of people have fled their homes in Georgia to escape the conflict. In global terms, the wave of refugees may be small, but for Georgia it is huge and the consequences will be devastating
Wounded pride ignites an accidental war
The danger is now that the South Ossetia conflict will undermine Russia’s already tense relations with the US and the rest of Europe, writes Quentin Peel
A Uighur challenge to Chinese hegemony
The ancient city of Kashgar, cut off from the rest of China by the sand dunes of the Taklamakan desert, seems an unlikely site for a terrorist atrocity, writes Quentin Peel
Descent into Chaos
This fascinating account of the Afghan war and the double-dealing and corruption in central Asia should be required reading for the next US president, writes Quentin Peel
Past imperfect Russia looks to the future
When leaders of the European Union and Russia descend on a small town in Siberia today for their six-monthly summit meeting, there are high hopes that for once there...
Fears grow for migration and asylum reform
The annual report of António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is not a sensationalist document: it is a sober assessment of statistics and trends among refugees, asylum seekers and displaced people fleeing conflict and persecution around the world
Complex treaty cools passions of faithful
Quentin Peel reflects on the likely outcome of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty and finds it too close to call
