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.
History has come roaring back to challenge our sense of global order. So long as the post-World War II international system commanded broad respect, we could pretend to keep the peace while camouflaging the contradiction between the principles of sovereignty and self-determination that are embedded in the UN charter. The system assumed that the world’s dominant powers would contain the...
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is honored to announce Pétronille Vaweka of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the recipient of the 2023 Women Building Peace Award.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong support for Israel and his country’s abstention from a United Nations resolution for a Gaza ceasefire will “clearly not score diplomatic points” for New Delhi as it aims to outmanoeuvre Beijing to become the leader of the Global South, analysts have said. However, India’s Global South leadership will not be determined by its position on...
As winter comes to Kyiv, Ukrainian and U.S. commanders are making cold and unsentimental assessments of the lessons of the summer’s failed counteroffensive against Russian forces. The stalled counteroffensive was a signal that the war in Ukraine is deadlocked. Drones and other high-tech weapons have made Ukrainian and Russian tanks largely obsolete. In this conflict, it’s now clear that...
In Haiti, where the battle against the virus that causes AIDS has been hard fought, Dr. Marie-Marcelle H. Deschamps knows that women are key: give a woman a job, she once said, and watch her not only take charge of her life but also cut HIV transmission. That philosophy, which Deschamps shared with First Lady Laura Bush in 2008 as she visited patients and workers at the...
Two Afghan insurgent groups, made up mainly of former government and military officials, claim to have killed at least 50 Taliban officials and soldiers during November. The hit-and-run insurgency has been most active in the north and northeast of the country where the Taliban encountered significant resistance during their previous...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s administration opened a new coast guard outpost station in the South China Sea in a bid to fortify Manila's position in a high-stakes territorial dispute with China. “Its ability to collect real-time data, along with its coastal radars that can track the presence of vessels near the island, will certainly have an impact on the behavior of...
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the...
The U.S. Institute of Peace is saddened by the death of Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal role—as Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Chancellor of William and Mary, and chair of the 9/11 Commission-- in shaping America’s foreign and national security policy and priorities for more than five decades.
Then finally we get an assessment of why Modi’s government in India took such a risk to plan to conduct a brazen act of terrorism on US soil, and speak with Dr. Daniel Markey, a senior advisor on South Asia at the United States Institute of Peace and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies Foreign Policy Institute. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Markey was a member of the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff where his work focused on...