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(Washington) – As the situation in Iraq continues to evolve, experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) are closely following developments. In addition to the observations below, they are available analysis and comment as the crisis continues.
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Robin Wright, joint fellow, the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace: Well, that's a great challenge, because Prime Minister Maliki is now arguing that his ouster would amount to a success for ISIS, for the extremists. And that -- that ...
In Iraq, there is a strong hope that the US will mediate the crisis, said Manal Omar, associate vice-president for Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace, a non-partisan Washington policy group funded by Congress. Speaking by ...
In Iraq, there is a strong hope that the U.S. will mediate the crisis, said Manal Omar, associate vice president for Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan Washington policy group funded by Congress. Speaking by ...
The prime minister, a Shiite, has failed abysmally in creating a formula to share power with the Sunnis, the traditional political masters in Iraq," Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center, non-partisan ...
Dr. Dominik Balthasar holds a Transatlantic Postdoctoral Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR, 2012-14), in the framework of which he has worked for and with Chatham House, the United States Institute of Peace, and the European ...
It is far more likely, however, that they will interpret it as a signal of abandonment,” said Scott Smith from the United States Institute for Peace. Riedel also voiced concerns that Obama's “reckless” decision to set an “egg-timer” on the US ...
MARIA J. STEPHAN is a Senior Policy Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Follow her on Twitter @MariaJStephan. They are the authors of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of ...
"Opposition forces are mobilizing in response to ISIS gains," says Steven Heydemann, vice president of Applied Research on Conflict at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington. "We have seen interesting alignments between Jabhat al-Nusra, the ...