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.
It will take much more fighting, death and destruction before the guns are silenced in Ukraine. Despite the government in Kyiv touting a plan for peace to present to the world next month, and Moscow claiming it is ready and willing to talk things out, experts see no indications that either side is truly motivated to...
The first official visit to the White House by Japan's prime minister comes as the U.S. praises the country's move toward its biggest military buildup since World War Two...
Picture the scene: ordinary people splash in Sri Lanka’s presidential pool while another dozen or so pump iron in the presidential palace gym. Hundreds more enthusiastically wave the national flag in gilded offices, atop balconies, and on manicured lawns. Others loudly sing the national anthem, raising homemade...
The U.S. military plans to install over-the-horizon radar in Palau by 2026, adding to its early-warning capabilities for the western Pacific as China’s military strength increases. The Department of Defense awarded a U.S.$120 million contract in late December for construction of reinforced foundations and pads in Palau for...
During the lull between Christmas and the new year, something alarming flashed up on Heathrow Airport’s specialist scanning technology. From the depths of a shipment of scrap metal, a radioactive signal. While false alerts can sometimes be triggered, this one was not one of them. Metal bars embedded with uranium had...
Tunisian President Kais Saied recently visited Washington to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. The summit was Saied’s latest effort to exercise his diplomatic muscle—and make his case for U.S. support in securing a critical IMF loan package. But like many of his previous diplomatic engagements, Saied’s public...
Beijing’s apparent failure to pick up on an invitation for China’s Premier Li Keqiang to attend a regional meeting in Myanmar has been interpreted as a subtle snub to Naypyidaw’s military rulers by one of their most powerful patrons. China’s non-response to an invitation for a planned Lancang-Mekong Cooperation...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reverberating more than 1,000 miles away in Syria. Squeezed by its strategic blunder, Moscow’s shrinking strategic bandwidth and its diminished capacities in Syria have disrupted the conflict’s complex power dynamics, potentially imperiling the relative calm that has prevailed since March...
Business leaders and former government officials discussed reconstruction in Ukraine at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The panelists touched on a variety of topics including sustaining support of Ukraine, eliminating corruption, economic investments by private companies...
It is important to remember that the degree of sharing will be intertwined with the willingness of the two countries to make common cause in joint capabilities and planning. The US will collaborate on technology development with partners most willing to share deterrence burdens, build joint capabilities, and complicate...