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.
So we get sound bites rather than solutions to a real national-security threat. Robin Wright, author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” is a distinguished scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.
CARBERRY: Andrew Wilder is an Afghanistan expert with the U.S. Institute of Peace. He says that while the atmospherics of the political talks are collegial, the key questions have yet to be resolved. WILDER: The devil is in the detail. What does a ...
A fragile cease-fire has temporarily stopped the violence in Gaza, and Israeli and Palestinian delegations have made efforts to negotiate a more permanent resolution. The only way they can succeed is to let the Palestinian Authority and its security ...
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza further undercuts Abbas because it is an opening for Iran, says U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "It now seems as if Iran, at least, is hoping to use this crisis as a way to reinsert itself into the ...
But facing a counter-attack by the Kurdish Peshmerga, and unable to counter U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann says Islamic State fighters may also be more apt to refocus on Syria,. "It would be even more likely to ...
But driving those fighters back across the Syrian border will require a bigger push by the new government in Baghdad, says U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "The U.S. has made very clear that it views this problem, the problem of ISIS, ...
This view is shared by Moeed Yusuf, a senior Pakistan expert at the US Institute of Peace, who believes leaders in both countries are acting with "myopic mindsets." Yusuf argues that since the two countries don't cooperate with each other and only try ...
Editor's note: Virginia M. Bouvier is senior program officer for Latin America at the U.S. Institute of Peace and editor of Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War. The views expressed are the author's own. With violence exploding in Gaza, airstrikes ...
The answer may have more to do with U.S. strategic interests and geopolitics than ethics....Obama's use of the word genocide...is extremely unusual, said Jonas Claes, a conflict analyst for the United States Institute of Peace....Usually presidents ...
... was unhelpful because of the delays, and it's something that undermined the trust between the two candidates, who are fighting over every ballot now," said Scott Smith, director of the Afghanistan and Central Asia program at the U.S. Institute of ...