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.
Mohammad Yunis has faced a slew of legal cases, and now is accused of siphoning off dividends owed to workers, labor law violations and corruption. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is often called the banker to the poor. He founded the...
Driven in part by the need to pull powerful countries from the orbit of its peer competitors, the United States has entered into a new strategic technology partnership with India, but regulatory hurdles could...
China issued a condemnation of retired Indian military officials over a recent visit to Taiwan, adding to a flaring pattern of disputes between the communist power and India that complicate Beijing's plans to undercut the...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hopes of meeting Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next week’s G20 summit appear to have been dashed, with the Chinese president expected to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China this fall, in a rare trip abroad that would undermine Kremlin excuses for his absence from other high-profile summits. “He now feels that he cannot go almost anywhere,” Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert in the history of Russian and Chinese...
Russia has accused Ukraine of the largest drone attack on Russian soil since the war began. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins CBS News to examine what the move...
Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa -- agreed at a summit last week to add six more members, in what Chinese President Xi Jinping billed as a historic moment among large emerging economies contesting the Western-led order. As the BRICS leaders met in Johannesburg, President Joe Biden's...
Ever since he launched an unsuccessful rebellion and came close to Moscow in June, it was known that Prigozhin had little chance of getting out, one way or another, reports Blitz, adding that after the failed coup, Prigozhin was called "a dead man walking." This is confirmed by the fact that it is known what...
Niger was seen as a beacon of democratic progress and security in sub-Saharan Africa. But last month, its elected president was overthrown. Now, a coup threatens to destabilize the region. ”It is really an explosive cocktail that we are witnessing in Niger," Joseph Sany says. "One that will harm the Nigeriens themselves...
Gina Raimondo, the U.S. commerce secretary, has headed to Beijing in an attempt to find common economic ground with China while navigating an increasingly acrimonious geopolitical competition. “The plan and the hope is that our commercial relationship, if done right, can stabilize the political relationship...