Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
On Monday night, shortly after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced that new elections will be held in October – the fifth elections in three years – one question that immediately came to mind was about the scheduled visit of...
Asfandyar Mir of the U.S. Institute of Peace and Daniel Byman of Lawfare, Brookings, and Georgetown, are both analysts of al-Qaeda and terrorist groups. They have a different analysis, however, of how al-Qaeda is faring in the current world. Rather than...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Unity, Najla Al-Manqoush, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), which was established by Congress as an...
European Union executives have signaled their support for Ukraine to join the bloc amid Russia's ongoing invasion. CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge spoke with William Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, about...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the latest on the war in Ukraine, and the impact of sanctions on the Putin regime.
A surge in the number of military coups that have brought down democratic governments across Africa can be traced to China’s rising regional and global influence, according to regional experts, who also blame successive U.S. administrations for...
Afghans are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis that has disrupted basic services, left them with rising costs and dim employment prospects, and battered the health and financial sectors. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to...
Representatives of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) have joined a Bangsamoro peace conference hosted here Tuesday by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), in partnership with the Strategic Communications and Capacity Building (SCCB) Project in...
Tunisia was already contending with widespread disaffection when it announced its third fuel price rise (5 percent) of the year. But in the wake of a Ramadan characterized by images of empty shelves, ordinary people are concerned less with the state of public finances and more with...
The political horizon in Iraq is clouded with uncertainty as the political crisis, since the elections of last October, has taken a turn for the worse as populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr pushed members of his parliamentary bloc to resign. Sadr’s game-plan is...