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Maria J. Stephan is a senior policy fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. The views expressed are her own. Shaazka BeyerleShaazka Beyerle, a Washington, ...
Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is on Twitter: @wrightr. ALSO IN THINK TANK: The Risks in Negotiating With Syria's Assad · How Four Years of Civil War Has ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have rightly turned down Vladimir Putin's invitation to go to Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allies' victory in Europe, and President Obama may soon follow ...
Analyst Graeme Bannerman at the Washington-based U.S. Institute for Peace said the GCC immunity deal was more than a political one. “I think the GCC saw this as an opportunity to replace the Zaydi [a Yemeni tribe Saleh belongs to] ruler with a Sunni ...
"I never use the term peaceful, by the way," says Maria Stephan, a senior policy fellow at the U.S. Institute For Peace Studies and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Stephan and her colleague, Erica Chenoweth, are scholars of ...
Since the start of Syria's war four years ago, more than 200,000 people have died and millions have been made homeless. Two rounds of peace talks have already failed. What can be done to bring an end to the war? Judy Woodruff talks to Steven ...
The writer, a former American ambassador to Ukraine, is acting executive vice president of the United States Institute of Peace.
To the Editor: Your March 9 editorial “No Cause to Delay the Afghan Pullout” ignores the compelling logic of a broad, bipartisan consensus in the national security community and Congress: that a full United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan ...
Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is on Twitter: @wrightr. ALSO IN THINK TANK: How Four Years of Civil War Has Destroyed Syria · In Muslim Men's Protests, Support ...
Forget Russia -- if the new government wants to save the country, it needs to drum corruption out of its ranks. By Colin ClearyColin Cleary is an Interagency Professional in Residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He served as political counselor at ...