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.
China has achieved progress in the Pacific islands as an area of strategic interest that it has not been able to achieve elsewhere in the world, a new report by a US Congress-funded think-tank has said...
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joins Shep Smith to discuss Russian efforts to hold referendums in occupied Ukrainian territory saying those areas are now a part of Russia...
A major Russian military force could be destroyed by Ukraine following a gambit that baited Russia's commanders into sending their troops into a vulnerable position. “They are trapped between...
World leaders are set to address the international community at the United Nations General Assembly which kicks off in New York on Tuesday (Sep 20). On the agenda are...
Ukraine's battlefield victories are a reason for celebration. But could it could also usher in another dangerous phase — with Russia's President Vladimir Putin lashing out in other ways...
Embargoes imposed to coerce dictators also punish suffering populations. For years, lawyers, economists, and policy wonks have searched for technocratic solutions to this dilemma—for example, by designing “targeted” economic and travel sanctions against individual leaders and...
The election in May of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the 17th president of the Philippines presents an opportunity to reset U.S.-Philippines relations after six rocky years while President Rodrigo Duterte held the office. After Marcos’s sweeping election victory, President Biden called to congratulate him...
Cambodia has long had a problem with its own citizens being trafficked into nearby countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where they work in slave-like conditions. But stamping out foreign-run trafficking rings within its borders is a new phenomenon, and Phnom Penh's ability to...
The US government has notified Congress of a proposed foreign military sale of $450 million to Pakistan to sustain the Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 programme, a US State Department spokesperson told Dawn on Thursday. Another official statement said the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) delivered...
India has yet to officially respond to the US agreeing to a $450 million fleet-sustainment aid package for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Wednesday, to upgrade three squadrons of its 65-odd F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ fighters, with the ostensible aim of boosting Islamabad’s counterterrorism...