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.
As the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears, there are continuing questions about how far Putin will go and how long the war could last. Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor and former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul discuss the critical months ahead and Western...
Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton and former US ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor weigh in on President Vladimir Putin's declaration that he is suspending Russia's participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty.
President Biden has vowed U.S. support for Ukraine in a speech in Warsaw on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin and his regime’s response, as the war of Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, are analyzed by Jason Johnson in for Joy Reid and our panel.
With the war in Ukraine entering its second year, China is weighing whether to dramatically escalate the conflict by supplying Russia with arms, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said. Blinken told media outlets over the weekend that the Chinese government is considering providing Russia with both...
A grass-roots coalition of Syrian families and advocacy groups has been lobbying United Nations member states and Secretary-General António Guterres to create an international system to help families across Syria learn the status of their missing relatives who have been arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared or...
Vladimir Putin has never shied away from nuclear threats. With the world watching his war in Ukraine, CBC's Terence McKenna hears from experts who know Putin to find out how serious those threats are.
Happymon Jacob and Sameer Lalwani join Milan to give their opposing takes on whether India can start to break away from Russia one year after Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
More than 7,100 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, nearly 500 of them children. Some 40,000 homes and apartments, 2,700 school structures and at least 1,200 medical facilities have been reduced to rubble. Roughly 6.5 million people — mostly women and children — have been driven from their homes...
In an interview with EER, senior advisor at the US Institute of Peace Mona Yacoubian talks about the various drivers of terrorism and discusses constructive ways to address the phenomenon. She says the fragility of states provide an enabling environment for terrorists to operate and underscores the various ways that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin won't stop his military attack on Ukraine until he's convinced he can't win, say William Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Alexander Vindman, former Director for European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council. "He believes that a long war actually suits him...